The Grundfos Foundation has recently provided a $118,000 grant to the Water Well Trust, a national nonprofit helping develop clean water for rural America. The grant will help drill or rehabilitate water wells for victims of California wildfires and for multiple families in the Houston area where Grundfos has its Americas headquarters.
"This generous grant from the Grundfos Foundation will allow us to expand our program to even more American families needing access to clean, safe water," said Water Well Trust executive director Margaret Martens. "Many of the families that will be helped through this grant have already suffered through fires and floods and have been waiting for assistance."
According to the latest American Community Survey, there are 460,000 households -- or 1.5 million Americans -- living without access to access to clean, safe, affordable drinking water.
The Water Well Trust maintains a wait list of American households requesting funding for the drilling of new wells or rehabilitation of non-functioning wells in high-need, low-resource rural areas.
The Water Well Trust is a 501(c)3 organization created by the Water Systems Council and serves Americans living primarily in rural, unincorporated areas or minority communities that may be isolated and difficult to reach, assisting low income families that cannot afford to pay for public water supplies and those who live in areas where the extension of public water supplies to serve them doesn't make economic sense.
SOURCE: Water Well Trust, via PR Newswire
