There are 748 million people in the world living without access to clean water. Let's change that!

I just celebrated my 30th birthday. All throughout the day, as all throughout the last year, I was lucky to be able to turn on the taps and get perfectly safe, drinkable water, either hot or cold, at-will. I'm really thankful to have lived with something so simple yet so luxurious -- something the most successful, most fortunate humans in every century prior to the last didn't get so freely. I feel rich, indeed, that I've always been able to drink deeply from the water around me, when I needed it.

We have learned that millions of kids around the world don't live to see their fifth birthday because they don't have access to clean, safe drinking water. You and I can help change that.

I'm asking for my age in dollars from everyone I know. Every penny of the money raised will directly fund clean water projects in developing countries. Even better, charity: water will show us exactly which projects we funded once they've been fully completed (which takes about 21 months). That means we'll know the locations and names of the communities we helped. Over the years, I've been able to see a couple different communities in the developing world benefit from this program.

Have any Christmas cash left over? Considered giving me a birthday gift? Want some good karma in the new year?

Please help me reach my goal. Please donate to my birthday campaign!