I found the Thirst Relief organization while perusing Gary Fong’s blog a while back. I added it to my favorites and finally did my follow up research this past weekend and decided to make a donation. Here’s a sobering fact. 1.1 billion people or 17% of the world’s population lacks access to clean drinking water.

Thirst Relief builds concrete sand filters that can bring clean water to people in remote areas that wouldn’t otherwise have access to it. And the cool part is that they can build and deliver one of these filters for as little as $50.

Anyway, just doing my part to spread the word. If you are interested, check out their website.