Image: Chris kenning When Mark Hogg recently traveled to Puerto Rico to help deliver safe water kits to the hurricane-ravaged island, he met locals who wept at the sight of clean water.
Image: Chris Kenning Since significant portions of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid remain offline, affected pumps and filtration systems can’t sanitize and deliver water.
According to Vox, one mayor pleaded with government officials to get a generator for his town’s water plant, but the Federal Emergency Management Agency and National Guard were unable to provide one.
Eighty-five percent of the people in his community didn’t have water a month after the hurricane.
And while the federal government continues to deliver bottled and desalinized water to the U.S. territory, it hasn’t yet met Puerto Ricans’ everyday need for a large water supply necessary to bathe, clean, and cook.
WaterStep The nonprofit has brought 22 disaster response kits to Puerto Rico and trained local officials and emergency response workers to use them.
The kits were distributed across the island.
You can donate to Operation Agua here.
LifeStraw LifeStraw produces a few different water filtration systems that can meet individual, family, and community needs.
You can donate to LifeStraw’s hurricane relief fund here.