brite revolution

600 million people living on less than $2 a day.

884 million people lack access to safe drinking water.

For all practical purposes, these statistics refer to the same people; around the world, communities are trapped in debilitating poverty because they constantly suffer from water-related diseases and parasites, and/or because they spend long stretches of their time carrying water over long distances. Since they started, they’ve completed more than 9,000 water projects (and counting!) for communities in 26 countries.