The Worth of Water
Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenge
An actor and an engineer discover that the poor will repay loans for clean water, then rebuild their charity around it.
White and Damon tell how Water.org grew from a charity handing out wells into a lender making small loans so families can install their own water and sanitation. The book is candid about the years when the model did not work, and its central claim is that the poor are creditworthy customers rather than aid recipients. Half memoir, half argument about how development should be financed.
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