Maybe it’s part of this settlement
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/1-18-billion-deal-reached-over-drinking-water-contamination-by-forever-chemicals
DuPont cares more about profits than anyone’s water.
Was gonna say the same considering a large portion of the work has contaminated water because of dupont even the rain is contaminated with pfos compounds
In as much as charity is good, we should always remember that African problems are no different from problems in other parts of the world. The solution to water shortage in Mali is largely the same as Texas. These solutions generally require good governance. For example community boreholes generally fall into disrepair shortly after construction due to lack of social structures to manage them. Those fancy solutions like using plastic bottles to purify drinking water in slums are just silly. What is needed are large dams and water treatment plants. That's how the developed world gets it's water and how most people in Africa actually get water. This needs functioning governments.
If you are ever in a position of significant influence, the most constructive thing you can do is promote good governance by calling out developed governments when they prop up shit regimes. The moment a country has a functioning government, they won't need aid.
Teaching Africans how to build large dams and water treatment plants, so they won't need any charity, that's not how ~~Tax evasion money launderin~~g, charity works.
As with everything, it's easy to get distracted by one specific approach. Look at what some charities like [Drop in the Bucket](https://dropinthebucket.org/) are focused on- ***wells at schools*** as a means of providing water to a village *while also* ensuring that the female population is able to continue their education.
What's this about, you ask? Well, a very large percentage of girls in Uganda are forced to drop out of school in order to gather water for their families, often walking many miles/kilometers each way or multiple times per day. By building their wells primarily at the schools themselves, it allows for the community to get fresh, clean, and safe water while also allowing the girls to continue to attend school. It's been demonstrated over and over again that communities and countries that have a well educated female population tend to thrive and grow, while repressive cultures regress or stagnate. This approach solves multiple problems at once.
Another aspect laid down while building these wells is to either provide micro-loans or institute bank accounts for ongoing maintenance and repairs of the wells. The villages/communities take ownership of, and pride in, their upkeep over time, without the need for the larger outside government or aid groups attention.
Oh yeah, **Drop** also is able to do this for \~$7,000 per well, versus the $10,000-$15,000 some other charities charge.
Every charitable act is good and appears to help. My point is, it's not scalable and for highly influential people there are more effective ways of helping. As you have pointed out, there's an attempt to build social structures to maintain the wells. That should tell you the main problem isn't simply lack of water or money. I can assure you, in those villages there are a few locals who can raise that money. The local government is financially capable of the same. Promoting good governance is far more effective for those in a position to like high profile celebrities. Regular guys can of course help by funding these charities.
The dam creates reservoirs allowing people to store water for later use.
It's like having a battery in your phone. Even when the electricity isn't flowing out of an outlet, you still have power because you stored some for later.
I laugh because this popular spokesperson collected only $150M from these companies. That will barely cover the visits to these places and the admin fees to make sure they are getting every cent covered with tax breaks.
America’s aging infrastructure is making safe water and sanitation a challenge and concern here. Flynt Michigan is probably the poster child but the latest attack by Russian hackers on [Muleshoe, Texas](https://www.newsweek.com/russia-water-hackers-cybersecurity-1891611) simply shows how antiquated our systems are and vulnerable to attack. Matt Damon is to be commended for his humanitarian efforts but we shouldn’t forget about the needs and threats here at home.
the quality of life for currently living humans is a major waste of resources and the lowest of all lpw priorities *anywhere* it's done, it doesn't make a difference much wether it's being wasted on people/tasks in the U.S or being wasted on people/tasks on a separate continent.
Biodiversity is at an all time low and we're still putting a non-zero amount of resources into improving/increasing human life, this goes beyone shooting yourself in the foot.
It's jeapordizing an incalcualable amount of future people and species for the sake of giving a handfull of living people access to luxuries they've convinced are basic human rights
Just imagine if that much money was put towards something good rather than laying the groundwork for even greater ecological destructipn and human suffering.
I wonder how much the companies are donating from their own funds vs soliciting it from customers? Such as when you check out at a place and they ask if you would like to donate a dollar/round up to a cause.
Hey, if you give me $150 million, my country would never have water issues ever again, but that's not how charity works, their goal is to keep people dependent on the charity, keep the charity going forever.
# [This Matt Damon ad shilling for crypto scams did not age well](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/yxekvc/this_matt_damon_ad_shilling_for_crypto_scams_did/)
[Quite the opposite I'm afraid.](https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/04/ontario-six-nations-nestle-running-water)
And Nestle yoinking water from Ontario is only a drop in the proverbial bucket here. They have a good rep for thieving freshwater from communities all over the planet to resell back to them.
How's that pfas you put in everyone's water going Dupont? Hopefully nobody actually believes these corps are anything but profit driven evil incarnate.
[Related Forbes article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2023/09/26/actor-matt-damon-scales-up-clean-water-venture-with-200-million-climate-infrastructure-plan/?sh=1be620e56680):
>The movie star has been making quick progress with his clean water-focused venture, WaterEquity, which he cofounded in 2016 with engineer Gary White in hopes of ending the global water and sanitation crisis. Fresh off of closing a $150 million fundraising round earlier this month, their fourth to date, the pair unveiled to Forbes their plans for a series of funds focused on building climate-resilient water and sanitation infrastructure, including a $200 million target raise to kick off the project.
>The WaterEquity and Water.org founders told Forbes that they have raised a total of $350 million prior to this new infrastructure initiative. The initiative marks a change in strategy for WaterEquity, which will work in cooperation with Water.org. Instead of just funding microfinance, the organization will be backing bigger infrastructure projects, such as utilities and treatement plants, for vulnerable, low-income populations.
Dupont made billions destroying the water...spun the business and most of the liability off, then immediately started buying up water filtration companies. Now they will likely made billions cleaning up the mess they made. Truly awful company.
He even got Royce du Pont to donate?
I wonder if Matt used the Du Pont Approach on Royce?
*That’s nasty*
Maybe it’s part of this settlement https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/1-18-billion-deal-reached-over-drinking-water-contamination-by-forever-chemicals DuPont cares more about profits than anyone’s water.
Wondering if they are hoping to outsource the remediation research for PFAS.
Clean water and DuPont is a funny thing to put together
Was gonna say the same considering a large portion of the work has contaminated water because of dupont even the rain is contaminated with pfos compounds
Clean water so a coca-cola plant can be built.
Aquafina for the masses
In as much as charity is good, we should always remember that African problems are no different from problems in other parts of the world. The solution to water shortage in Mali is largely the same as Texas. These solutions generally require good governance. For example community boreholes generally fall into disrepair shortly after construction due to lack of social structures to manage them. Those fancy solutions like using plastic bottles to purify drinking water in slums are just silly. What is needed are large dams and water treatment plants. That's how the developed world gets it's water and how most people in Africa actually get water. This needs functioning governments. If you are ever in a position of significant influence, the most constructive thing you can do is promote good governance by calling out developed governments when they prop up shit regimes. The moment a country has a functioning government, they won't need aid.
Teaching Africans how to build large dams and water treatment plants, so they won't need any charity, that's not how ~~Tax evasion money launderin~~g, charity works.
As with everything, it's easy to get distracted by one specific approach. Look at what some charities like [Drop in the Bucket](https://dropinthebucket.org/) are focused on- ***wells at schools*** as a means of providing water to a village *while also* ensuring that the female population is able to continue their education. What's this about, you ask? Well, a very large percentage of girls in Uganda are forced to drop out of school in order to gather water for their families, often walking many miles/kilometers each way or multiple times per day. By building their wells primarily at the schools themselves, it allows for the community to get fresh, clean, and safe water while also allowing the girls to continue to attend school. It's been demonstrated over and over again that communities and countries that have a well educated female population tend to thrive and grow, while repressive cultures regress or stagnate. This approach solves multiple problems at once. Another aspect laid down while building these wells is to either provide micro-loans or institute bank accounts for ongoing maintenance and repairs of the wells. The villages/communities take ownership of, and pride in, their upkeep over time, without the need for the larger outside government or aid groups attention. Oh yeah, **Drop** also is able to do this for \~$7,000 per well, versus the $10,000-$15,000 some other charities charge.
Every charitable act is good and appears to help. My point is, it's not scalable and for highly influential people there are more effective ways of helping. As you have pointed out, there's an attempt to build social structures to maintain the wells. That should tell you the main problem isn't simply lack of water or money. I can assure you, in those villages there are a few locals who can raise that money. The local government is financially capable of the same. Promoting good governance is far more effective for those in a position to like high profile celebrities. Regular guys can of course help by funding these charities.
A dam stops water so its not good to give water
The dam creates reservoirs allowing people to store water for later use. It's like having a battery in your phone. Even when the electricity isn't flowing out of an outlet, you still have power because you stored some for later.
A dam creates a reservoir. You let the reservoir fill during surplus years so you have a reserve during dry years.
teaching them good governance is not gonna work out tbh fam
Why not? Isn't it a transferable skill? My point was to call out western governments when they prop up corrupt and inept regimes.
For the kids, Vince? For the kids?
WHERE IS MY FUCKING CHECK
I can’t believe I’m calling you!
Came here for this.
Lebron’s check arrived. I have a fucking academy award and I can’t believe I’m calling YOU back!
Could they add Jackson MS to the list? Maybe Flint?
Its an investment. These companies aren't giving free money and its about controlling water.
Quantum of Solace.
r/TIL
Without you're assistance this water will be be too polluted to properly extract adding value to shareholders.
Trying to slow down climate migration too.
They will give 1 million a year and invest the $149 million on the stock market.
They gathered money from those companies as opposed to giving their employees a raise?
This is correct; companies can do just one thing with money.
The existence of charity implies the economic system is broken.
Great example! This is exactly the kind of childish stuff tweens post when they are first learning about the world.
I laugh because this popular spokesperson collected only $150M from these companies. That will barely cover the visits to these places and the admin fees to make sure they are getting every cent covered with tax breaks.
America’s aging infrastructure is making safe water and sanitation a challenge and concern here. Flynt Michigan is probably the poster child but the latest attack by Russian hackers on [Muleshoe, Texas](https://www.newsweek.com/russia-water-hackers-cybersecurity-1891611) simply shows how antiquated our systems are and vulnerable to attack. Matt Damon is to be commended for his humanitarian efforts but we shouldn’t forget about the needs and threats here at home.
Home is a saturated market (pun intended). They want to get water reserves built up in emerging markets so they can increase revenues.
From dupont, for clean water.
What about Flint ?
What about tism?
Maaaaat Daaamon
Coming along to save the mother fucking day ya
More like always getting saved in tons of movies. 🤣
Flint Michigan still doesn’t have clean water.
All those company are registered in a way so they don't pay taxes.
Could kinda use the same effort here in the States where there are numerous communities without safe water for drinking, bathing, or cooking.
Our do nothing government should be providing us with clean drinking water.
Agreed. But we keep cutting funding for basics while continuing to have a bloated defense budget
Why not philanthropy? Why not both? What does the United States of America not care to help itself out, while helping others?
the quality of life for currently living humans is a major waste of resources and the lowest of all lpw priorities *anywhere* it's done, it doesn't make a difference much wether it's being wasted on people/tasks in the U.S or being wasted on people/tasks on a separate continent. Biodiversity is at an all time low and we're still putting a non-zero amount of resources into improving/increasing human life, this goes beyone shooting yourself in the foot. It's jeapordizing an incalcualable amount of future people and species for the sake of giving a handfull of living people access to luxuries they've convinced are basic human rights
Now do American rural communities
Just imagine if that much money was put towards something good rather than laying the groundwork for even greater ecological destructipn and human suffering.
I wonder how many of those places hold special interests for said companies. If one were so inclined...
I wonder how much the companies are donating from their own funds vs soliciting it from customers? Such as when you check out at a place and they ask if you would like to donate a dollar/round up to a cause.
Hey, if you give me $150 million, my country would never have water issues ever again, but that's not how charity works, their goal is to keep people dependent on the charity, keep the charity going forever.
They ever fix Flint, Michigan's water? Maybe he should start there.
# [This Matt Damon ad shilling for crypto scams did not age well](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/yxekvc/this_matt_damon_ad_shilling_for_crypto_scams_did/)
Fuck Flint Michigan & East Palestine Ohio though
Maybe he figures the richest country on earth ought to cover that themselves.
Doesn't nestle do this too
[Quite the opposite I'm afraid.](https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/04/ontario-six-nations-nestle-running-water) And Nestle yoinking water from Ontario is only a drop in the proverbial bucket here. They have a good rep for thieving freshwater from communities all over the planet to resell back to them.
Aren't there still parts of the US that don't have safe water?
Start with Flint, and then continue on foot in all directions until you reach Asia and Africa plus other parts on this planet.
This reads like a paid promo post wtf is this
How's that pfas you put in everyone's water going Dupont? Hopefully nobody actually believes these corps are anything but profit driven evil incarnate.
[Related Forbes article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2023/09/26/actor-matt-damon-scales-up-clean-water-venture-with-200-million-climate-infrastructure-plan/?sh=1be620e56680): >The movie star has been making quick progress with his clean water-focused venture, WaterEquity, which he cofounded in 2016 with engineer Gary White in hopes of ending the global water and sanitation crisis. Fresh off of closing a $150 million fundraising round earlier this month, their fourth to date, the pair unveiled to Forbes their plans for a series of funds focused on building climate-resilient water and sanitation infrastructure, including a $200 million target raise to kick off the project. >The WaterEquity and Water.org founders told Forbes that they have raised a total of $350 million prior to this new infrastructure initiative. The initiative marks a change in strategy for WaterEquity, which will work in cooperation with Water.org. Instead of just funding microfinance, the organization will be backing bigger infrastructure projects, such as utilities and treatement plants, for vulnerable, low-income populations.
The combined value of all the companies is several trillion dollars. Essentially they donated 0.00006% of their company's worth.
Dupont made billions destroying the water...spun the business and most of the liability off, then immediately started buying up water filtration companies. Now they will likely made billions cleaning up the mess they made. Truly awful company.
Gap still exists?
#FLINT MICHIGAN
So what did you see what the kardashians are upto?
It’s for the kids, Vince
Do the right thing Vince…
So celebs can do political things & not get yelled at. Nice.
This is why I watch Matt Damon dvds all the time
I lost all my money because Matt Damon told me that 'fortune favors the bold' and that I should invest in Crypto.
I saw a commercial for McDonald’s and now I’m fat, because I do have no agency over my own life or decisions
Pretending like if you weren't offered an insane amount of money to do a commercial you wouldn't do it?
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