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Water.org and Founding Partners Launch Get Blue™ to Bring Water Home™ Through Everyday Actions

June 9, 2026

Join Get Blue™, co-founded by Water.org’s Matt Damon and Gary White, and partners Gap Inc., Starbucks, Amazon, and Ecolab to shop, share, and donate to help end the global water crisis.

The TODAY Show - Matt Damon, Gary White Talk Global Water Crisis and Solutions

June 9, 2026

Water.org co-founders Gary White and Matt Damon joined the TODAY Show to talk about Get Blue and why bringing safe water home for families around the world is within reach. "It's a massive problem but we have solutions," Damon says. Five dollars helps one person get lasting access to safe water or sanitation.

TIME - Water Will Be the Defining Business Issue of the Decade

Jan. 23, 2026

Water shapes how people spend their time, the choices available to them, and their ability to participate in community and economic life. For the estimated 2.1 billion people who lack access to safe water and the 3.4 billion who lack access to safe sanitation, water dictates everything.

TIME - Vedika Bhandarkar Believes We Can Solve the Water Crisis in Our Lifetime

May 1, 2025

TIME profiles Water.org President & COO Vedika Bhandarkar as part of Gold House’s A100 List, honoring the most impactful Asian Pacific leaders. Drawing on her 25-year career in finance, Vedika is helping unlock capital and scale smart solutions to accelerate access to safe water and sanitation, driving progress toward a world where everyone everywhere has the resources they need to thrive.

NextBillion - The Keys to Successful Blue Bonds: How Peru’s Strong Local Lending Systems Are Expanding Water and Sanitation Access

May 26, 2026

For millions of families safe water solutions exist and are within reach — what's missing is affordable financing to pay for them. Water.org's Rocio Cavazos explains how two blue bond issuances are closing that gap for people in need in Peru, and what it took to build the lending systems that made them possible.

TIME - The Key to Solving the Global Water Crisis

March 22, 2025

The global water crisis is one of the most urgent and complex challenges facing humanity today. More than 2.2 billion people lack access to safe water, and 3.5 billion lack access to safely managed sanitation. This crisis undermines health and safety, education, and economic opportunity.

New York Daily News - Matt Damon is bigger hero than 'Jason Bourne' off screen for millions in need of clean water

July 25, 2016

KC Business Journal - He wants to change the world, and he will

May 22, 2016

NewsDeeply Women & Girls Hub - Capital: The Tool Women Need for Water

May 21, 2016

WASHfunders- COP21 Offers an Opportunity to Integrate Water, Climate and Human Development

May 12, 2016

Town & Country Magazine - How Matt Damon is Fighting For Clean Drinking Water Around the World

May 10, 2016

Global Citizen - How Access to Safe Water Changed the Lives of These 4 Women

March 2, 2016

World Economic Forum Agenda - 5 things you need to know about water and climate

Jan. 14, 2016

KC Magazine - Water.org and Bank of America Expand Safe Water

Jan. 1, 2016

Tempus Magazine - Water.org co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White are empowering the planet one tap at a time

Dec. 31, 2015

InStyle - Matt Damon on the Moment He Realized He Could Have a Huge Impact on Lives Around the World

Sept. 12, 2015

Huffington Post - It's Expensive to Be Poor

Sept. 9, 2015

Reuters - U.N. states agree post-2015 sustainable development agenda

Aug. 2, 2015