We Partner with Mother Nature.
Our NINETY + rain catchment tanks provide safe,
disease-free water for thousands of indigenous children
and villagers who only have polluted water to drink.
5 things you should know about us -
Operation Safe Drinking Water is a 501 (c) (3) charity.
No one receives a a salary or compensation.
We live out among the people we serve.
We’re monthly donors ourselves.
We show exactly where our tanks are installed.
(click here to see a map.)
Would you drink this water?
… yes, you would if it’s all you had.
Angela’s only 6 but she’s already drinking herself to death.
See the latest news article about us..HERE
KEN EIDE – DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
Ken is in charge of day to day field operations.
He makes things happen when they should, where they
should and how they should.
A SALUTE TO OUR MANY VOLUNTEERS
Below, Robert installs rain-catchment guttering
at a school in La Gloria village, Bocas del Toro province, Panama.
Robert often wrangles cattle on a ranch in Wyoming when he’s
not installing rain-catchment tanks. He and his wife Mary donate
their time and financial support.
Maribel Bass, Co-Founder
Wife, co-worker, first aid dispenser, scholarship administrator, friend to the poorest, feeder of hungry kids, patient listener to all in need.
Maribel, from Costa Rica, knows the people by name and speaks their language.
Indigenous communities have come to know and trust her.
Photo above – She comforts anxious children awaiting first-aid.
Joe Bass, Founder, President – Operation Safe Drinking Water.
Joe traded his golf shoes and retirement for muddy boots after seeing how
polluted water destroys the health of indigenous children.
He asked, “why should children have to drink bad water
when it rains so often? Why not catch, store and share it?”
Joe and Maribel’s work has received international recognition.
They were chosen as “people who are making a difference in the world today,”
by a major international magazine.
Click here to read the article.
A major magazine featured Joe for starting such a
physically demanding project at the age of 71
when most people are ready to slow down..
Read, “Retiree brings safe drinking water to thousands…”
Safe water for indigenous children — that’s what we’re all about.
30,000 indigenous villagers get their safe drinking water from
our EIGHTY- PLUS rain catchment tanks, and more are being installed
as you read this.
Each rain-catchment tanks supplies safe, disease-free
water for an average of 80 school kids and 290 villagers.
They’re simple, low-cost and refill in the frequent downpours.
Indigenous children, Lucas, Sarah, Rachel and Carey
– and many more like them — need safe water.
What do they all have in common?
They live in the same village.
What else do they have in common?
They’ll each have years of safe drinking water from the tank
you provide by using the donate button below.
Make them “your kids” by providing a safe drinking water tank for their village.
A rain-catchment tank costs only $975, and supplies safe drinking water
for years to come.
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