The ICS community understands what automation can bring to the delivery of key services like power, transportation and ... water. It is amazing what a difference basic water systems can make to a village that doesn't have ready access to water.

The average Charity Water Project is between $10K and $20K. For example, an $18K project build a piped system with tap hands that provided water to a town of 475 in Niger. The system used a borehole drilled deep into the ground with a submersible pump powered by solar panels. From the source, water is pumped into an elevated storage tank nearby. Through a pipeline network, water is distributed by gravity to individual tap stands located in one or more communities.

Let's work together to fund one as part of our gathering together for S4x19. Digital Bond will match any contribution in this campaign up to a total of $10K. So your contribution will be doubled ... and it's on average only $30 to per person to provide a water system.

And the great news is 100% of the funding goes to the project, and we will get to track the progress of the project we fund.

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Many of us have no idea what it's like to be thirsty. We have plenty of water to drink -- even the water in our toilets is clean!

But many people around the world don’t have that luxury. Every day, about 1,400 children die from diseases caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are simple solutions like drilled wells, spring protections and BioSand filters that help provide clean water to communities around the world.

100% of the money will be used to build clean water projects, and when they’re complete, charity: water will send us photos and GPS coordinates so we can see the exact community we helped.