Give clean water. Give time.
Right now, 703 million people are drinking dirty water. Women and girls are walking miles to rivers, lakes, and ponds with 40 lb. Jerry Cans on their backs. Each perilous journey steals time better spent pursuing an education or earning an income: all for water that often carries dangerous diseases.
You can change their lives today. When a family is given reliable access to clean water, women and girls are freed from the walk for water. They can attend school full-time, turn their hobbies into thriving businesses, or simply rest.
A gift of just $20 a month will bring 6 people — an entire family! – clean water every year.
Join The Spring, our monthly giving community, to give clean water (and so much more) each and every month.
Other Ways to Give
Donate by Check
Make checks payable to charity: water. If you're donating in honor of someone, sponsoring a water project or want to direct your donation to our operating costs, please write that in the memo of your check.
Unfortunately, we cannot accept donations to The Spring via check.
Tax receipts will be mailed within four to six weeks after the donation has been processed.
International Giving
charity: water is a registered charity in the UK. To make a tax-efficient donation in GBP, visit charitywateruk.org. For other international donations, we accept bank issued money orders in USD. Money orders should be made payable to charity: water and can be mailed to the address below. For donations over $6,000, we also accept wire transfers; email info@charitywater.org for more information.
Please note, only donations made by eligible US taxpayers may be tax-deductible.
Donate Stock
We're able to accept donations in the form of stock, government (including municipal) debt and corporate debt through the Depository Trust Company (DTC). For security, settlement and reduced paperwork, electronic transfer through the DTC is preferred. This can be arranged from most brokerage accounts.
Unfortunately, we cannot accept donations to The Spring via stock.
Please contact info@charitywater.org for more information on making a stock donation.
Join the global community serving 37,960 people every month
When you give to charity: water, 100% of your donation goes directly to funding water solutions in rural communities. We won’t stop until everyone, everywhere has access to clean water. But we need our monthly giving community, The Spring.
Our water projects are locally-led and community-owned. We deploy your donations to the field, where these partners go to work rehabilitating old water systems, building new ones, or completing sanitation and hygiene training.
The Spring is essential to this cycle. We count on monthly gifts to fill in any funding gaps that may arise or account for potential changes in project completion. The Spring enables us to fund our local partners with confidence and make the best long-term investments in rural communities.
Meet the community changing lives
The Spring is composed of generous, passionate, and determined people — like you — from more than 100 countries around the world.
Our members have already transformed over a million lives with access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene. Stand with us and change millions more. You’re going to fit right in.