The other day I was chatting to a girlfriend and she happened to mention (quite proudly I might add) what her young nephew was up to. To cut a very long conversation short Wendy's nephew and a team of four other 19-22 year olds are the brains and heart behind the thankyou.water movement. Hence, in 2008 this group of 20 something year olds were confronted by the fact that 1. Australian's spend close to $600 million dollars on bottled water a year and that 2. close to two million people (90% of which are children) die each year due to a lack of clean drinking water.



Rather than change the channel or tune out they decided that they would do something about it. And so, to the young team behind thankyou.water 'nothing is impossible' and so their collective passion and empathy is making certain that people in developing countries around the world are ensured their basic human right of clean drinking water. This rapidly growing movement is 'based on turning something seemingly insignificant like buying a bottle of water, into something with the potential to change the world as we know it.'

How does it work? The cost of one bottle of thankyou.water gives water to one person for at least one month as 100% of the profits go directly into funding water projects in developing countries.  Unfortunately once manufactures, distributors and retailers take their margin thankyou.water is left with a modest profit. Yet at the end of the day one bottle still equates to - one months worth of water for one person.



So the next time you grab yourself a bottle of water choose thankyou.water instead. If your local café, school, university or place of work does not stock thankyou.water then direct them to the website so they can place an order. If one bottle can give a child clean drinking water for a month, just imagine what we can achieve if we all made the switch to thankyou.water?