Indiegogo Fundraiser

We've already mentioned it on facebook and put up a few posts in online classifieds, we have started a fundraiser on Indiegogo. CLICK HERE to donate and share the page. We're hoping to raise $500k, a very lofty goal but we have faith that with your help we can get the attention the project deserves and reach our goal.
Now most successful crowdfunding campaigns have a decent sized advertising budget starting out, and already have email marketing lists, funds for facebook and google ads, etc. We don't have any of that. We're a small organization right now and we're relying on help from people like you to spread the message. All it takes is a few quick social shares and you would be doing a lot to raise awareness.

This fundraiser will last for 60 days, and when it is successful we will be able to start construction of our initial project, a smaller scale solar still (just under an acre) off the coast of Texas. With your help we'll be building in February.

Thanks for your support and please donate what you can and help spread the word.

Selling it hard

Pro Water-Is-A-Commodity people (aka corporations or individuals that would profit from water being a corporate controlled resource) are selling hard the idea of "let the free market fix the water crisis". This wont work for one simple reason, life itself is a human right and water is life. If water is a commodity with a market driven value then human life becomes the same. Still you get little articles like THIS ONE talking about how "any economist would tell you to let the market set the price".

The problem with this is the subversive nature, the implying that any educated person knows that water-as-a-commodity is best. People in general don't look too deeply into things that don't directly effect them, and right now we aren't in a crisis the way other countries are. We can all still turn a knob and have water. For how long?

Let me paint you a picture. If corporations like Nestle have their way, water becomes completely subsidized and priced on the free market things will start to break down. Water sources will continue to not have enough to support the area populations in dry regions, becoming more and more severe. Meanwhile other sources of water (such as glacial lakes in Alaska) start being used to bottle and ship water around the world. With no new sources of fresh water however, the supply will continue to drop steadily over time. As supply goes down demand (and price) climb. The corporations controlling the water start making more profit, they don't care about 100 years from now they care about profit margins for this quarter, so no new sources are made the price is just increased. As the price goes up the cost of living goes up. Eventually people will have to choose between paying other bills or having clean water to drink. Poor families in the US are hit first, causing a drain on social services to give water to those who need it, raising taxes. The price goes up more and people have to start making more and more cutbacks on how much water they use. Agriculture gets more and more expensive making food more and more expensive. Eventually people who can't afford to pay are left without and when people get desperate they resort to desperate measures. Look forward to fights, even wars, over water.

This can easily be prevented, but we need your help. Donate, share this site, spread the word, and we can begin making new publicly owned sources of fresh clean water. Our first project is going to cost us about $300k, a very lofty goal, but once it's done and governments and other organizations see an actual example of what we can do, more funding will become available from other sources. Of course it won't be profitable, of course it isn't going to make money for anyone, but it will make sure that in 100 years we aren't living struggling day to day for survival because of a lack of water.