One billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water. That’s one in six of us. Grow Missions is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. 100% of public donations go directly to fund water projects.

In this section of our web page we have included some significant news articles and reports on the global water crisis and other humanitarian issues facing our world.  We hope by reviewing these articles and then reading our newsletters that you will gain a further understanding of the issues facing the developing world.  As further news coverage about Grow Missions and the results of our International Aid and Development projects becomes available, we will post it here.

If these facts peak your interest, please be sure to sign up for our monthly news letter to learn more about the what life in rural Kenya and Burundi is really like, and how our projects can help.

Rethinking Women, Girls and Water Supply and Sanitation,   August 2, 2009

The article in Water World looks at improved ways of empowering women and girls through water supply and sanitation.

Land hunger eats into Kenya’s fragile forest                        By Barney Jopson in Nairobi Published: June 28 2009 

The leaves on the tea bushes in the plantations of the Kenyan region of  Kericho are a sickly shade of green. In the small town of Narok, the river has become toe-deep, a giant puddle that residents use as a communal car wash.

Fresh Water Out of Reach for Many Worldwide  Talk of the Nation, March 21, 2008

Water - Sin aqua non  Apr 8th 2009 | ISTANBUL
From The Economist print edition

The World Water Crisis: High Cost, Low Priority                By: Melinda Burns  |  May 22, 2009

Water - another global 'crisis'?  2 February 2009                   By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

Stakeholders press Obama on foreign aid                              March 19, 2009    By Katherine Boyle, Greenwire