Scott Harrison

I want people to understand how they are exactly the same as the person in the slum. In that uniquely human way, they are no better and no worse than them -- they are the same.

Updated Aug. 12, 3:56 p.m. Rachel Beckwith didn’t live to see her birthday wish, but more than 50,000 people in need of clean water will, now tha...

For Earth Day, we teamed up with Jonathan Jarvis and Kristen Bell to create a simple film on how water changes everything for people in need. Help us make this Earth Day all about water.

charity: water's founder, Scott Harrison, pointed to 45 glowing light bulbs jutting from three sponsor boards marked with the names of the countries he had just advocated for during his passionate speech. A total of $470,000 was successfully raised - an amount that would provide 19,300 people with clean water.

Today charity: water is drilling again -- this time in a nearby Bayaka village. They haven't given up and I don't believe we'll see any white flags as long as Scott keeps doing what's he doing, as one of the most exciting Change Agents of our time.

The residents of Nederland, Colo. came together to build the Carousel of Happiness. Working together, town residents created a living piece of American history.

In the spirit of solving enormous problems, charity: water wants to step it up this September and provide our first million people with clean and safe drinking water.