Water changes everything.

58% of today

100%of public gifts go to wells

People served today18:00

1,262,400

Right now +38 a second42M litres a day

Clear Water Project drills, builds and looks after wells in 12 countries. 4,812 of them are pumping today, for 2.1 million people. Every euro you give goes to a well.

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01The problem

The problem,
in three numbers.

2.2B

people still drink water that is not safe to drink.

27 in 100 peopleEveryone else

200M

hours are spent carrying water, every single day.

8 in 10homes without a tap send a woman or a girl to fetch it.

1,000+

children under five die every day from diseases linked to dirty water.

1 dot = 1 child, every day

Sources: WHO / UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme 2017 and 2023; UNICEF. Rounded.

02The map

4,812 wells.
Every dot is one.

Scroll and watch 17 years of work fill in, well by well, in the order they were built. Pick a country to light up its wells.

2026

4,812 wells2.1M people served

Wells built per year2009–2026

Scrub through the years

Wells by countryTap to highlight

03How a well gets built

From first ask
to first water.

Twelve weeks to build. Twenty years and more of looking after it, run by the village that asked for it.

01 Listen

02 Drill

03 Build

04 Look after it

01

Listen

A village asks. We survey the ground water, map the homes and agree who runs the well.
Weeks 0–3
02

Drill

A local crew drills 40 to 80 metres down, then tests the water before anyone drinks it.
Weeks 3–6
03

Build

Pump, concrete apron, drainage and a fence. Local masons, local parts wherever we can.
Weeks 5–10
04

Look after it

A water committee keeps the logbook, a trained mechanic fixes it, and a sensor reports every day.
Week 9 onwards