When you give fresh water, you give miracles.
Sponsoring a water project is surprisingly economical - just $3,000 provides a deep borehole well and electric pump for a village, while a hand pump well can be installed for $1,700.
When a village gets fresh water, everything begins to change. Children are healthier. Men and women have time to pursue education and employment, creating better lives for their families. Women have time for care-giving, and girls, who bear much of the water-carrying burden, can go to school.
When you give, you’re not just giving water - you’re giving everything else that water brings.
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FAQs
Who is Fresh Water Friends?
Fresh Water Friends builds wells for the vulnerable and forgotten - those communities that are so rural or so impoverished that they will never achieve water independence on their own. As a 501(c)3 public charity, we are committed to nondiscrimination - helping everyone get clean water, regardless of class, caste, race, religion, or any other discriminating factor.
Do you send a team from the United States to install the wells?
It is much more cost effective to rely on trusted local partners to install each well. In addition, using local labor allows the villagers to have agency and ownership for their well, and invests in the local economy as we hire drillers, masons, electricians, and graphic artists for each component of the work.
How do you decide where to build a well?
Once a well is funded, we consult with our local partners, who are familiar with the unique communities around them. A licensed geologist makes sure safe groundwater is accessible at each site, and then our partners choose a final location based on which areas have the greatest need.
How is my donation processed?
Fresh Water Friends works with Stripe and KeelaPay to process all online donations through a secure server. We do not store any of your credit card or banking information. If you need to make changes to your payment, you will be able to do so using the link in your confirmation email.
What's the difference between a hand pump and an electric well?
In villages with clean aquifers near the ground surface (<250 feet deep), we install hand pump wells that can be used without electricity. Each of these wells provides water for 200-500 people every day, 24 hours a day.
In communities where clean water is deep underground, we sometimes have to drill more than 700 feet! Because a hand pump can only pull water from up to 250 feet deep, electric pump wells are the only option for these villages with deep aquifers. These wells are connected to the power grid and supplied with a storage tank and plumbing, so people have access to water even if the power goes out. An electric well provides water for 1,000-1,500 people every day.
