Navajo Nation had one of the highest Covid-19 infection rates in the world, because 30% of homes lack running water.
Read our CEO’s Op-Ed in the New York Times
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High infection rates meant we couldn’t safely enter our clients’ homes, so we had to get creative to keep clean water flowing.
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We kept every staff member fully employed and insured, even when they couldn’t work—giving their families financial stability and access to 100% employer-paid medical coverage.
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Many DigDeep staff come from the communities we serve. The pandemic meant some of us struggled to find water for our own families.
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Ex-Marine Luis Soria was one of many volunteers that helped us distribute 250,000 gallons of emergency bottled water to more than 30,000 people in the first days of the pandemic.
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Support poured in from incredible places—250,000 gallons of water from Nestlé, hand sanitizer from AMASS, and even $1,000,000 from Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey.
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Our advocacy efforts helped fast-track EPA approval of chlorine tablets to keep our temporary storage tanks clean. More than 2 million have been distributed across the Navajo Nation so far.
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DigDeep joined 20 other organizations in the Navajo Nation Water Access Coordination Group (WAC-G) to identify, acquire and advertise safe water sources for tribal homes.
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We helped 10,300 rural Navajo residents learn where they could find safe, free local water sources during the pandemic using targeted facebook ads, through our work with the Navajo Safe Water Effort.
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Our Covid-19 water delivery efforts reached into 30 new Chapters (communities) on the Navajo Nation, covering a whopping 1891 additional square miles.
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We broke our one-day donation record on Giving Tuesday, raising more than $500,000 for new water trucks on Navajo Nation.
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The CBS special was based on our groundbreaking 2019 report: Closing the Water Access Gap in the United States, which lays out a roadmap for ending this crisis.
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Presidential candidate Joe Biden cited our work as a key component of his environmental justice and infrastructure platforms, which are now becoming policy.
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Many people who read our groundbreaking research wanted to help, so we established the Closing the Gap Fund, and directed 100% of donations to 6 community-based organizations around the country.
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We shared the findings from Closing the Water Gap with policymakers through briefings on Capitol Hill, and it’s since been cited in many Congressional hearings.
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Closing the Water Access Gap in the United States has been cited in 41 scholarly articles, many of them in peer-reviewed journals.
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Tori Jones and her neighbors have to haul water from streams, creeks, and abandoned mine shafts. It's stressful and dangerous—because sometimes that water can cause illness and even death.
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We launched the Appalachia Water Project with a system that creates clean drinking water for 2,800 families from nothing but sunlight and air.
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We launched the Appalachia Water Project in partnership with 5 Loaves & 2 Fishes food bank with founding support from Ferguson and 1500 grassroots donors.
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Bob McKinney can do it all. In addition to running our Appalachia Water Project, Bob is a licensed plumber and electrician, a certified trades instructor, and one of the most highly regarded people in the town of Welch, WV.
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