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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Read moreApril 28, 2022
The Oscar winner is out with a new book titled, “The Worth of Water,” written with co-author, Gary White.
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Actor Matt Damon and Gary White, founders of nonprofit Water.org, join CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss how the organization has evolved in its mission to provide global access to clean water.
Read moreApril 15, 2022
Oscar-winner Matt Damon and water expert Gary White discuss their goal to end the global water crisis for 771 million people in their lifetimes. They explain how they use microfinance and impact investing to help millions gain access to clean water.
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.
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The actor and the civil and environmental engineer tell "The View" about their book, "The Worth of Water," and their mission to end the world's water crisis.
Read moreFeb. 3, 2022
In their book, The Worth of Water, our Co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White share how access to safe water or sanitation has changed the lives of millions people around the world. We talked with Gary about the inspiration behind the book and the writing process.
Read moreDec. 20, 2021
DuPont is supporting Water.org to provide 100,000 people with one year of access to safe water or improved sanitation.
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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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"We know that we can reach that vision, of everybody in the world having safe water. And I think that's what keeps us going. That's what keeps us innovating and trying new ideas." Hear more from Gary White and Matt Damon on Bank of America's podcast "That Made All the Difference"
Listen hereNov. 8, 2021
Water.org Co-Founder Matt Damon shares how the partnership with Stella Artois has helped empower more than 3 million people with access to safe water. This holiday season, every Stella Artois product or chalice purchased will help provide safe water to people in need.
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Water.org Co-Founders Gary White and Matt Damon participate in a panel at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Watch hereNov. 3, 2021
In the new global campaign, Stella and Water.org give time back to women who have to walk for water and highlight the importance of giving back through product sales, visually arresting out-of-home and in a film narrated by Matt Damon.
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