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100,000 people!
We are busy preparing our 2021 meter reading, which we always announce on World Water Day.
It turns out: we have already been able to give more than 100,000 people access to clean drinking water!
How much is that exactly? And how are we so sure about that?
Soccer stadium
The largest football stadium in the world in Guangzhou, which is currently being built, can accommodate 100,000 people.
Celebration
In 2019, 100,000 people also stood on the Museumplein in Amsterdam to celebrate Ajax. The police urged people to stay away.
Municipalities
The municipalities of Dordrecht, Deventer and Delft each have approximately 100,000 inhabitants. Imagine if they all no longer had clean drinking water.
Kings of Leon
100,000 people is also the just released single by the Kings of Leon. Is that a coincidence?
Tesla
If you look further at the number 100,000, you will see that for 100,000 euros you can buy a Tesla Model S Performance that will take you to 100 km per hour in 2.6 seconds.
Access
And for 100,000 euros we can give another 6,850 people access to water!
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100,000 people? That is much more than a drop in the ocean. Imagine that packed stadium. But we are not there yet and our pace is increasing. We will reach the next 100,000 in two years!
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How can we be so sure?
How can we be so sure that we have reached this amount of people? Well, prior to each project we determine how many people we can reach in the regions where we install the water supplies. In doing so, we maintain some risk margin.
During the project we keep in close contact with the implementing partners about the progress and if necessary we adjust the plans. Afterwards, an evaluation will follow in which we map out exactly how many people benefit from the water supplies.
It may also happen that we reach more people than expected, such as with the Water Vending Machines from Said. All in all, we know for sure that we always achieve at least what we promise to our donors!
Clean water for all
That’s our mission! Still 771,000,000 don’t have access to water.
We are working in an entrepreneurial way to be able to invest in safe water.
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