Over 700 million people have no access to clean water. Nearly a thousand children die every day from contaminated water. Changing that is in our hands.
Join the community that provides clean water to 141,000 people every month.
Hold back disease, send a child to school, and bring a community's dream to life with a month of clean water. Become part of this change with a regular donation.
Help cover the monthly water needs of about 2 people.
Health
Waterborne disease fades, and families gain safer, healthier days.
Education
The burden of carrying water lifts, and children head back to school.
Agriculture
Dry land comes alive again, and people grow their own food.
Livestock
Herds are watered, and a village's core livelihood holds steady.
Family and Community
The hours lost to water return, and families rejoin work and community life.
Hygiene and Sanitation
Hygiene takes hold, and reliable infrastructure lifts daily life across the region.
Build a lasting source of life with water wells.
Bring clean water up from deep underground and reach hundreds, even thousands of people every day.
Standard Water Well
In rural areas with limited access to water, we provide a permanent solution to the most fundamental human need by drilling between 15 and 90 meters, depending on the geological structure. Constructed with durable concrete foundations, mechanical hand pumps, and animal drinking troughs, these resilient systems provide up to 500 people with uninterrupted access to clean water daily, while simultaneously revitalizing the local ecosystem. By eliminating the risk of waterborne diseases and putting an end to the grueling daily search for water, our standard wells enable children to return to school and allow arid lands to be cultivated once again.
Water changes everything.
'Sometimes I would go for water twice a day'
I am 20 years old and have two children. I live with my husband's family. We are a large family. Therefore, I had to fetch more water than anyone else. Sometimes I would go for water twice a day. The water we brought was muddy. We would wait for the dirt in it to settle and then drink it, but it was still very bitter. Now the well is close. When I wake up in the morning, my husband goes to work and I do the chores at home. Anyone from the house can get the water. I can spend time with my children too.
Clean Water Community
Water is not a one-time gift. It keeps changing lives for as long as it flows. The Clean Water Community brings together people who want to go further than a single donation and change a place for good. When your monthly support comes together, it does more than open one well in a village. Alongside that well, the village's health, the children's schooling, and the soil's yield all begin to change. In the villages we reach, we don't just drill a well and leave. We take on its upkeep, support farming, and help the life growing around the water last.
Before the well was dug, Meryem's family walked for hours twice a day to carry water from a muddy pond. Now it is a few steps from their door. Hers is one village's story, but with your monthly support that same story repeats for hundreds of thousands of people.
Break the cycle of disease
Millions of people are caught between the hours spent finding water and the diseases that water carries. Illness from dirty water is one of the leading causes of child death. When clean water reaches a village, that cycle breaks. People no longer drink from muddy, disease-carrying water, but from a source they can trust.
Turn lost time into education
When water is far off, carrying it usually falls to girls, and that often means leaving school. Clean water gives those hours back. Girls set down the water can and return to class, while parents can turn their time to the fields and their livelihood.
Create major impacts with small donations
On its own your monthly support may seem small, but joined with thousands of others it reaches hundreds of thousands of people every month. Join the Clean Water Community each month and make the change last. Change comes from steady support, not a one-time effort.
Standard Water Wells
Clean water supply for up to 500 people
A standard water well is a durable answer to a community's most basic need. Where there is no access to water, people spend most of their day searching for it and the rest fighting the illnesses it brings. Once a well is dug, both come to an end. Water reaching the surface means children back in school, families regaining their health, and dry soil planted and harvested again.
We build every well to high engineering standards, shaped by the region's geology and what the community actually needs. We drill as deep as the ground requires and set up systems that hundreds of people can rely on every day without interruption. With hand pumps mounted on a durable concrete base and animal troughs beside them, the well brings both the people and the land around it back to life.
Specialized Water Wells
Clean water supply for up to 5,000 people
A specialized water well is a larger system, built for places where people are many and drought never lets up. It serves thousands, not just a single village. When water near the surface runs short, it reaches down to deep aquifers and keeps flowing even through the driest months. People no longer have to leave their homes in search of water.
These wells are built with high-capacity tanks and more advanced equipment. They reach safe reserves hundreds of meters down, and thousands of people draw from them every day. Running without interruption on solar power or a generator, the system can supply several taps, wide animal troughs, and farmland all at once.
How do we build this change?
Needs Analysis
Annual data and local conditions point us to the places hit hardest by the water crisis. We always begin there, where the need is greatest.
Hydrogeological Survey
Our teams study the ground on-site. We decide where to drill from the geological data we gather in the field, not from a desk.
Engineering Design
Every region has its own climate and population. Depending on what the village needs, a standard or a specialized well, we design it to last.
Drilling and Construction
We drill to high engineering standards and build a well that is sealed against outside contamination and fits its surroundings.
Water Quality Analysis
A water sample goes to independent laboratories. We don't open the well to anyone until the water is proven safe to drink.
Operation and Maintenance
We don't dig the well and walk away. We train the village in hygiene and the right use of water, and we keep the well maintained.
Sanitation and Hygiene
Clean water is the first condition for health, but on its own it isn't enough. Unless it reaches homes safely and is used the right way, the cycle of disease stays open. That's why digging a well is only half the work for us. The other half is helping the village build the habits that keep water safe.
In every village where we dig a well, our teams teach the right use of water and basic hygiene. We explain how disease spreads and how to keep clean water clean. We seal the area around the well against outside contamination and manage wastewater, so there is nowhere for disease-carrying water to collect.
Diarrheal disease is a leading cause of child death, and the way to stop it is clean water and good hygiene together. With the training we give and the infrastructure we build, families can raise their children somewhere safer. Protected by the right hands, clean water guards the health of an entire generation.
Agriculture and Environmental Impacts
The first water from a well does more than quench thirst. Land left barren by drought is planted and harvested again, and the area around the village turns green within months.
With the irrigation we set up, the village no longer waits on the rain; it can grow crops year-round. Harvests vary, and the surplus goes to market. A village that once waited for outside help becomes one that earns its own income.
Where herding is the livelihood, the troughs beside the well bring the animals to water. With water within reach, the herds stay healthy and grow more productive. The greenery that springs up around the well holds moisture in the soil, slows erosion, and forms a natural barrier against the desert.
A water project is also a stand against climate change. When a drying region can grow again, the people there can stay in their homes and on their land.
Frequently Asked Questions
Join the community that provides clean water to 141,000 people every month.
One in ten people worldwide has no access to clean water. With a month of clean water, you can hold back disease, send a child to school, and bring a community's dream to life.