Today's speaker is water evangelist Greg Chick. Greg is a Rotarian from The Ramona Rotary Club. He works alongside the Global Water Works, a 501c3, to help bring safe drinking water to areas where they still carry water back to their village.
Many villages need to carry water three to four kilometers back to their village. Greg designs the system then teaches them how to build the infrastructure to passively harvest water from gutter systems and store in storage tanks. These are simple to install structures, and the supplies can be found at any hardware store.
We learned how the seemingly simple structures to install can be life changing to these rural communities. They are taught maintenance of their water system and purification. These tanks, which can store 1000, 2000 or 3000 gallons are installed alongside a structure. Rainwater is collected from gutter systems from the roof and filtered before entering the tanks. The W.H.O says the average person should have 3.1 gallon per person per day for drinking and cooking needs.
You can learn more about this work by visiting www.globalwaterworks.org
