Making waves
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Waves for Water (W4W), says founder Jon Rose, "was created with one goal in mind: to provide clean drinking water to those in need." This goal first took shape in 2004, when Jon's father Jack developed user-friendly programs to help bring clean water to thousands of people in Africa. By May 2009, Jon launched W4W to introduce his father's programs to the rest of the world and, being an internationally known surfer, Jon took advantage of the surf community's global reach to create a distribution network.
W4W provides safe drinking water via:
1. water filtration
2. rainwater harvesting
"The approach," he says, "is to empower people with the tools and techniques to alter their existing (contaminated) sources…and create entirely new sources."
W4W Hard Facts:
- Sumatra: Earthquake relief - 200 filters distributed = 2000 people with access to clean water
- Bali: 37 villages on impoverished east side now stabilized and drinking clean water
- Haiti: Earthquake relief - 10,000 filters distributed = 100,000 people with access to clean water
- Chile: Earthquake relief - 1000 filters distributed = 10,000 people with access to clean water
For more about Jon Rose's vision, check out our interview below...
