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SWU Forum – Brazil
Hey Friends! In route home from SWU Forum and wanted to send a few pics… Was really an incredible moment in the Waves For Water journey… There was an incredibly inspiring range of speakers – Neil Young was an obvious highlight and talked on the first of two panels on day one (was also his [...]
Read moreHUCK Magazine (UK) features Waves for Water
Former pro surfer Jon Rose is sidestepping the bureaucracy of aid organisations and providing clean water for the people who need it most. Text Giuliano Cedroni & photography Vavá Ribeiro Jon Rose looks like a regular surf dude: tan skin, pale blue eyes, and a friendly smile on his face. But for over a decade this former WCT [...]
Read moreOutside Magazine Features W4W
Bright Idea: DIY Disaster Relief By: WILLIAM WHEELER In September 2009, California surfer Jon Rose was sailing toward the island of Sumatra, carrying ten water filters that he planned to deliver to a rural community while enjoying a surf trip in Indonesia. Rose was looking to move on from his career as a Quiksilver-sponsored surfing [...]
Read moreCoastal Hero – Jon Rose
He’s been popping up everywhere lately. From Haiti news stories, to CNN, to now, in Coastal Living Magazine. Jon Rose of Waves for Water and Hurley’s H2O Campaign is traveling the world saving lives one filter at a time. Share this postTweet
Read moreSWU Partnership – Brazil
One of the best things about what we do is being exposed to people/groups around the world who are doing innovative and inspiring things… people out there, taking initiative and choosing to not only do their part, but trail-blaze in the process. Of course I love our country – it’s been a place that is [...]
Read moreHLN Interview with Jon Rose
HLN Interview with Jon Rose from Waves For Water on Vimeo. Share this postTweet
Read moreGood Day LA Video Report with Jon Rose
Surfer Jon Rose Talks Waves For Water: MyFoxLA.com Los Angeles – Professional surfer turned environmentalist Jon Rose’s non-profit organization “Waves for Water” goes all over the world bringing clean water technology to places where water is very difficult to come by. On Monday Jon who just got back from a trip to the Amazon, talked [...]
Read more“Life by Me” – Interview with Jon Rose
http://www.lifebyme.com/jon-rose-guerilla/ What’s most meaningful to me at this point is doing my part. We all have the ability to do our part. If you stick to doing what you can do, you never lose, you’re always winning. What can make a difference in what we do is scale. I can put 10 water filters in [...]
Read moreInterview with Jon Rose – Coast News Magazine
Founder of Waves for Water, this former pro surfer makes saving lives easy. By Terence Loose – Coast Magazine http://www.coastmagazine.com/articles/jonrose-1720–.html Laguna Beach’s Jon Rose had the dream life: a professional free surfer, he was paid to travel the world surfing perfect waves with photographers and videographers in tow. As far as jobs went, it was [...]
Read moreJon Rose on Fox News / Good Day L.A. – Post Japan
Professional Surfer Jon Rose on GDLA: MyFoxLA.com Los Angeles – A month after the killer quake and tsunami hit Japan the area was rattled again by a huge 7.1 aftershock. On Monday professional surfer and founder of “Waves for Water,” Jon Rose joined us live to talk about his organization, which is helping to bring [...]
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