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This September, charity: water turns 3 years old. In just three years, we’ve raised more than $10 million through over 60,000 donors and helped more than 700,000 people in 16 countries get access…

No Water Means No Opportunity for Women

Women Can’t do Anything Water.org Campaign: No Water Access Means No Opportunity for Women

In just one day, more than 200 million hours of women’s time is consumed for the most basic of human needs - collecting water for domestic use. This lost productivity is greater than the combined number of hours worked in a week by employees at Wal*Mart, United Parcel Service, McDonald’s, IBM, Target and Kroger, according to Gary White, co-founder of Water.org, who co-founded the organization with actor Matt Damon. Water.org is launching the ‘Women Can’t Do Anything’ campaign to bring the issue into the open and encourage people to help solve it.

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