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Our Core Impact Areas
Waterborne Disease Prevention
Giving every child the foundation for a healthy life.
Millions of children are threatened by common waterborne diseases, but the solution is a simple, proven filter. We empower local partners to deploy these life-saving tools and protect the next generation.
Waterborne Disease Basics
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The Problem: Acute diarrheal diseases from contaminated water are a leading cause of death for young children.
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Our Solution: We provide scientific blueprints for proven tools like household filters and community-scale ultrafiltration systems.
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The Impact: Prevents deadly diseases, allowing children to stay in school and adults to remain productive.
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The Bottom Line: Every $1 invested can return up to $25 in averted healthcare costs and increased productivity.
Toxin & Heavy Metal Management
Breaking the toxic cycle of sickness and poverty.
Millions are unknowingly exposed to industrial and geological poisons in their water, but our scientific expertise allows us to identify and neutralize these specific threats. Therefore, we design and fund targeted filtration systems that restore communities to health.
Toxin & Heavy Metal Basics
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The Problem: Excessive exposure to toxins like arsenic and mercury causes cancer, brain and organ damage.
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Our Solution: We provide technical guidance on specialized filters and heavy-metal mitigation efforts for ground and surface water.
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The Impact: Prevents devastating, lifelong diseases like cancer and developmental disorders in children.
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The Bottom Line: Mitigating these threats delivers returns as high as 17-to-1 with huge long-term returns from protecting brain development in children.
Fisheries & Freshwater Economies
Restoring the foundations of food and income.
Entire communities depend on their local lakes and rivers, but pollution from sewage and runoff causes catastrophic fish kills. Therefore, we implement scientific treatments to restore the water, the fishery, and the local economy.
Freshwater Economy Basics
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The Problem: Untreated sewage sends deadly pathogens downstream to rural communities while nutrient pollution fuels algal blooms that deplete oxygen, kill fish, and collapse local economies.
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Our Solution: We guide scientific in-lake treatments and nature-based solutions like constructed wetlands.
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The Impact: Restores a primary source of local food and income, reviving fisheries and tourism. Also reduces the potential for waterborne diseases in communities that use untreated water.
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The Bottom Line: These projects deliver a long-term ROI of 10-to-1 or higher from revitalized economies.
Water for Food Security & Safety
Turning a plague of hardship into a harvest of hope.
A farmer's livelihood and a community's food supply can be destroyed by invisible threats. Therefore, we engineer solutions that prevent crop failure and ensure the food on a family's table is safe and healthy.
Ag. Water Quality Basics
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The Problem: Waterborne pathogens can destroy harvests, while legacy soil toxins near mines and industrially polluted areas contaminate crops, causing a dual crisis.
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Our Solution: We provide blueprints for managing plant pathogens and using techniques to block toxin uptake in crops.
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The Impact: Prevents catastrophic crop loss, secures farmer income, and stops widespread foodborne illness.
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The Bottom Line: Securing agriculture provides a strong return by stabilizing income and averting chronic healthcare costs.