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In 2004, Scott Harrison served as a photojournalist for Mercy Ships in Liberia, West Africa. There he became familiar with the life-threatening effects of contaminated water and upon moving back to his home in New York City in 2006, he founded charity: water.

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A Word About Water on Earth Day

Posted April 21, 2011 | 22:46:42 (EST)

Water changes health, education, food security, the lives of women and children. The more people we at charity: water meet in the field, the more we realize how much water touches every part of a person's life.

Things you wouldn't even think about when you've had clean water your...

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How Birthdays are Changing the World

Posted October 4, 2010 | 01:19:36 (EST)

Four years ago, charity: water had a crazy idea. We asked people born in September to give up their birthdays and ask for donations instead of gifts -- to ask for their age in dollars. We used 100 percent of the $150,000 raised that month to fund water projects at...

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Failure on our Birthday

Posted September 8, 2010 | 15:13:41 (EST)

I'm writing my first Huffington Post piece from a small village deep in the Central African Republic a day after my 35th birthday.

I was here for our annual satellite Live Drill event, and was expecting another amazing charity:water story, and our 200th completed water project in the country....

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Haiti Rises from the Rubble

Posted February 25, 2010 | 19:03:24 (EST)

I arrived in Haiti early this morning to spend the next five days working with our local partners here on charity: water projects. As many of you know, we've been working to bring clean water to Haiti long before the earthquake on January 12, and of course, our resolve is...

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Help Us Give Clean Water to Our First Million People

Posted September 14, 2009 | 21:41:05 (EST)

I turned 34 on Monday. On the same day, charity: water turned three.

I've been reading a lot lately about the psychology of enormous problems. About how people will always rush to save one child, but disconnect when faced with helping thousands of children. "One death is a tragedy,...

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