Waves for Water was created with one goal in mind: to provide clean drinking water to those in need. Six years ago, Jack Rose developed user-friendly programs that would help bring clean water to thousands of people in Africa. In May of 2009 his son, Jon Rose, launched W4W to introduce these programs to the rest of the world.
Targeting the surf community, and using its’ global reach as a ready-made distribution network, Waves For Water combines two main components to provide safe drinking water: (1) water filtration (2) rainwater harvesting. Our approach is to empower people with the tools and techniques to filter their existing contaminated sources… and to create an entirely new source through catching rainwater.
On Nov. 1st, disaster struck the seaside city of Padang, Sumatra. A 6.9 earthquake devastated the city and left over 100,000 people homeless. Jon Rose happened to be passing through Padang on the first day after the quake with ten W4W ceramic-drip water filters in his luggage. As Jon was among the first relief efforts to reach ground zero, these filters turned out to be lifesavers for hundreds of survivors.
It was this pivotal event that dramatically accelerated the young foundation’s presence and effectiveness around the world. Since then W4W has continued its work in Sumatra and embarked on new initiatives in Bali, Haiti, and Chile.
Here are the 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 – 9000 filters distributed = 90,000 people with access to clean water.
Chile: Earthquake relief – 1000 filters distributed = 10,000 people with access to clean water.
See the first Waves for Water post for more details.
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