Find the latest news and press releases about our work in the water and sanitation sector below.
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Aug. 21, 2023
Philanthropy and the private sector haven’t always known how to work together. On the Systems Catalyst Podcast, Water.org co-founder and CEO, Gary White, shares how we can collaborate to solve our world's more pressing issues.
Listen hereJuly 7, 2023
Ryan Trahan successfully made it back to America in just one week, starting from one penny. And he raised more than $400,000 for Water.org in the process.
Read moreMarch 22, 2023
A new AWS-based learning management system will make it easier for Water.org to enable access to safe water to people living in poverty around the world.
Read moreMarch 22, 2023
771 million people around the world don't have access to safe water. 1.7 billion do not have a toilet. But there are solutions that work.
Read moreMarch 8, 2023
Water.org's Senior Knowledge Analyst, Zehra Shabbir, contributes to a conversation about why the water crisis is a woman's crisis.
Read moreMarch 1, 2023
Co-founders of Water.org, Matt Damon and Gary White on global water inequality.
Read moreOct. 10, 2022
Actor Matt Damon and entrepreneur Gary White are fighting to change water crisis numbers.
Read moreSept. 20, 2022
Matt Damon, Gary White, and Kris Licht provide their perspective on what needs to be done to end the global water crisis.
Read moreSept. 20, 2022
Amazon will also help launch one of the largest private investment portfolios in water and climate, bringing lasting water access for 100 million people.
Read moreJuly 1, 2022
Gary White chatted with Civil Engineering about his advice for how civil engineers can give back to their communities by identifying social justice problems and developing solutions — just as he and his business partner, actor and Academy Award winner Matt Damon, are doing.
Read moreMarch 29, 2022
Co-authors Gary White and Matt Damon speak about their experience founding Water.org, their work over the years, and the difficulties and occasional frustrations of trying to make people care about a crisis which, for many, is happening a world away.
Read moreNov. 23, 2021
Co-founders Gary White and Matt Damon are sharing how access to safe water or sanitation has changed the story of 40 million people around the world.
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