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Our Charity

Back2Tap is a company committed to helping others and preserving the environment. While we are encouraging people to go Back2Tap, we realize that in many parts of the world, the lack of clean water is a devastating problem. About 4,000 children die every day (one every 8 seconds), because of the effects of unclean water. At least 2 million people, mostly children, die every year from water-borne diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, hepatitis and malaria. In most cases, these diseases would be preventable if people had access to clean drinking water and proper sanitation.


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Image courtesy of Central Asia Institute

In order to support this cause, Back2Tap will contribute 5% of our profits to the Central Asia Institute, started by Greg Mortensen, the author of Three Cups of Tea. CAI is involved at the local level on many projects that promote education and literacy in Central Asia. In conjunction with education, CAI also oversees projects devoted to critical public health needs and environmental sustainability. Providing clean drinking water and sanitation has a profound effect on communities, families and particularly growing children. For more information on the Central Asia Institute, visit their web site at www.ikat.org.





The statistics are staggering:

  • About 1.2 billion people globally lack safe water to consume
  • About 2.6 billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation
  • Just one toilet flush in the West uses more water than most Africans have to perform an entire day's drinking, cooking, washing and cleaning
  • Women and children in water-stressed countries walk three to six miles every day just to collect water for their families. This prevents them from otherwise pursuing an education, maintaining their households or earning additional income.
  • More than half of the hospital beds in the developing world are occupied by people suffering from preventable diseases caused by unsafe water and inadequate sanitation
  • Dirty water poses a greater threat to human life than war or terrorism.
  • Meeting the U.N. Millenium Development Goal of reducing by half the percentage of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015 would cost about $4 billion a year for 10 years. That amount represents just one month's spending on bottled mineral water in Europe & US.