Our Mission


Each day, more than a billion of the world’s poorest people walk long distances to obtain the water they need to survive. Millions lack the energy or resources to collect clean water and are forced to use contaminated sources nearby. Hundreds of children and adults die each day from the lack of potable water.

Our mission is to build sustainable water and sanitation facilities for those people who lack them -- in the poorest regions of the world -- through wine-related events.

Next Event:

2009 Tre Biccieri Tasting

Saturday, April 25, 2009
5:00pm –8:00 pm
Rowayton Civic Center
33 Highland Avenue, Rowayton, CT

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The Need for Water...  
  • Each day, millions of the world’s poor lacking the water they need for drinking, cooking and bathing use contaminated water for these purposes.

  • Many people in the developing world, usually women and children, walk more than three hours every day to fetch water that is likely to make them sick. Those crucial water fetching hours, prevent many from working or attending school. The poverty cycle continues.

  • Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation causes 80% of all sickness and disease in the world. The lack of clean water kills more people every year than all forms of violence - including war.

  • Approximately 42,000 deaths occur every week from unsafe water and a lack of basic sanitation. 90% of the 42,000 are children under 5 years old. That’s 37,800 children dead each week because a resource like clean water is unavailable to them.


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Turning Wine into Water is a 501 (c)(3) public charity, IRS Tax ID 20-5145650
All donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law

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