Welcome to SWIM!
SWIM is a mobilizing platform for college students ready to solve the world’s water problems. Find templates, tools, projects, stories, ideas, networking, and eventually do a project yourself virtually anywhere in the world.
First Steps
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Register at Today is the Day! to receive updates about what’s going on
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Click the Join Up tab and commit to give 5 bucks a month towards water purification projects
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Tell your friends and spread the word via facebook, myspace, blogs, email, word of mouth
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Keep up to date with what’s going on and watch amazing things happen
Distressing Truths
Much of the unrest in Darfur and the misery is due to water shortages.
– Farouk El-Baz, Geologist at Boston University, AP Column
Every 15 seconds a child dies from diseases like cholera, hepatitis, and typhoid, due to unsafe drinking water, poor sanitation and hygiene.
– UNICEF
80% of all sickness in the world is attributable to unsafe water and sanitation
– Word Health Organization
135,000,000 people will die from water-related diseases by the year 2020 if no human action is taken now.
– Peter H. Gleik, Pacific Institute, President
50% of the world's hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from waterborne diseases.
– WEHAB working group
Well Said
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
– Mother Teresa, Sisters of Charity
The knowledge that I gained from EGDE OUTREACH water purification training enabled me to communicate with a hospital in the Dominican Republic, in hopes of bringing a system that will purify water and help the hospital transform the community.
– Courtney Crain, Murray State University
In November 2007 I test water in Sibiu, Romania and make plan to help the people there. For me to think working with water purification is something extremely important because water is life, and many lives can be saved by helping people drink purified water, for free. Some people can't buy water all the time, it might be too expensive. This water can be used not just for drinking but in hospitals, for surgeries or other important things.
– Claudia Tanase, University of Bucharest, Romania
