Powwater

The team at Powwater is on a mission to bring communities the most effective tool to spark transformative growth: water. Water is the gift that keeps on giving - when you give someone clean water, you create an opportunity for them to have a quality life. Powwater is a social business, selling customizable reusable water bottles, coffee mugs, and tumblers, while reinvesting the proceeds into sustainable clean water projects around the world. This drinkware brand has become a natural way for Powwater to connect consumers and businesses in the United States to water projects globally, raising awareness and excitement around the power of water. The result is that 58% of their customers continue to re-order additional products, serving as a sustainable funding mechanism for the water projects.

Water development efforts may serve as the foundation with which to address many of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Powwater’s mission is formed from this belief that water has the power to empower communities to address many challenges, whether it be large urban centers such as Bangalore, India or Cape Town, South Africa that have rapidly growing populations and depleting water tables, or rural villages such as Sodo, Ethiopia with improper infrastructure to access groundwater. In other words, the ripple effects of clean water are meaningful, and, in addressing clean water can catalyze progress amongst other global problems.
Powwater’s projects have created lasting full-time jobs, lifting families out of poverty. Proper filtration methodologies have spared vulnerable children from contracting otherwise deadly water-borne illnesses, allowing for children to be more engaged in the classroom, as confirmed by teachers in Powwater’s network of schools in Kenya. In fact, 1,800 children under the age of 5 currently die every day from water-borne illnesses such as Typhoid, Cholera, E. Coli, Hepatitis A and Salmonella. Local access points have also freed up time for women to work jobs during the day, time that would otherwise be spent fetching water, furthering gender equality.