The Water Box

A partnership to improve access to clean water.

How Does the Water Box Work?

For the past five years the people of Flint, Michigan have been dealing with a contaminated water source. Due to inadequate water treatment, lead has been leaching from water pipes into the drinking water, leading to extremely elevated levels of the heavy metal neurotoxin and exposing over 100,000 residents to elevated lead levels.

501cTHREE created the Water Box to provide clean drinking water while eliminating the need for single-use plastic water bottles. The Water Box is a mobile water filtration system that uses proven methods to reduce heavy metals and eliminate harmful bacteria from water.

Designed to be rugged, portable, cost-effective, and easy-to-use, the Water Box is an efficient and sustainable clean water solution.

Since its inception, the Water Box has distributed thousands of gallons of clean drinking water while eliminating over 60,000 single-use plastic water bottles from landfills.

Learn more about Kindhumans’ partnership with 501cTHREE.

 

Innovation brings more access to clean water.

Kindhumans is humbled and honored to serve the Flint, MI community by helping to provide clean drinking water to the community. We recently teamed up with our friends at 501cTHREE to implement the third Water Box in Flint. Founded by Jaden Smith and Drew FitzGerald, 501cTHREE’s overall goal is to help solve problems relating to water, food, shelter, and energy using smart design and engineering. They work with people in the community with firsthand experience dealing with these problems to help create solutions. They plan on deploying more Water Boxes in Flint, as well as other communities facing similar challenges.

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Community comes together to raise kind humans.

The Kindhumans Water Box is hosted by the Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village (SBEV). SBEV has been dedicated to providing the community with relief since the beginning of the water crisis. SBEV believes investing in young people is the key to creating compelling and lasting change in the community of Flint. Bringing clean, drinkable water to SBEV satisfies a basic need of the community. With the obstacles to finding clean water removed, children in the community of Flint are allowed to freely focus on their futures and the future of their community.

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Meet the kind humans behind the Water Box.

This project would not have happened without the help of a few kind, passionate, and dedicated individuals.

One purchase. One impact.

Every purchase provides one week of clean drinking water to a household in Flint.

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