Matt Damon

We reach a million people every six weeks now, and we've now hit 85 million people that we've reached.

Congratulations.

And if we had stayed just drilling wells, which we were very good at, if we had kind of sat on our laurels and accepted our kind of best-in-class status, it would have taken us 600 years to reach the number of people that we've reached

So you're describing the exact...

I think the biggest problem we have, which is just making this issue relatable, because if you grew up in the developed world, you were never more than five steps away from a clean drink of water.

I mean, it's in our kitchen sink.

It's in our bathroom sink.

The water in our toilets is cleaner than two billion people have access to around the world, which is incredible.

But it's very hard to relate to.

And so that's kind of the first hurdle we have to clear.

When we're explaining the scale of the problem, people die every year completely pointlessly over things that, you know, from like diarrhea can be a death sentence.

I mean, I could tell you the story of the very first water collection I went on because it was a big aha moment for me.

I was in Zambia.

This is 20 years ago.

And I went on a water collection with this girl.

She came home from school.

We were in a very rural, very rural part of Zambia.

And we go for this walk and we each have a jerry can.

And I'm talking to her through a translator.

It's just the three of us.