The UN Water Conference 2023 was held for the first time in almost five decades in New York on 22-24 March. It brought together experts, policymakers, and stakeholders to discuss the current state of global water resources and identify the challenges facing our planet's water supply.

Dig Deep sponsored our collaborative pilot program. The Forgotten People, a grass roots nonprofit, and Water Resources Action Project, a New Mexico based nonprofit, invited Global Access to collaborate on this project in a remote area of the United States where thousands of Diné (Navajo) and Hopi households haul water from distant wells.

We felt anxious waiting in the rain at the Poland/Ukraine border for our partners to come across. Semi-trucks were lined up for ten miles on both sides of the border waiting several days to cross. The only way into the Ukraine was to leave our vehicle in an empty field turned parking lot and walk across the border into Ukranian territory.

Global Access is proud to partner with Lift Up Uganda (LUU) to provide safe drinking water to remote communities in Northern Uganda. Our team arrived in Kampala late in the evening to get a few hours of rest before driving north to the city of Gulu. As we arrived in Gulu, we spotted the smiling faces of our partners walking down the street. After a brief greeting we headed to our hotel to start preparing for a week of safe water workshops.

Our 1% for the Planet supporter Epic Water Filters donated water bottles to us. We are proud to donate 3000 Nalgene bottles to Hope Haven Rwanda to allow students to carry safe drinking water from our in-home filter systems to school everyday and practice environmental stewardship. We are honored to help these amazing organizations do amazing things!

Global Access provided water filters to the 700 families of all students of Hope Haven Rwanda. This amazing school has grown from classes meeting under a tree in village of Murindi to an extensive modern school campus.

Today our partner just received regionally sourced buckets to begin model programs throughout the entire five provinces of Rwanda. We cannot wait to share more about our collaborative partnerships throughout beautiful Rwanda.

Hollow fiber membranes are a type of membrane technology that have been used in a variety of applications for several decades. The technology was first developed in the early 1960s and has since been used in a wide range of fields, including kidney dialysis, municipal water filtration, and portable water filtration systems such as Safi water filters.

Our most recent Water For Life Grant from the Rotary Club is a focused study evaluating solutions with remote communities of the Peruvian Amazon (including the indigenous Maijuna tribes). Our recent results from our local partners have demonstrated:

• 97% of 135 filters to be perfectly or sufficiently functioning after 10 months of use.

• 767 people are benefiting from these filters. 2015 liters of water are filtered daily, or 660,280 liters annually.

• 100% of filter users have informed us that drinking this filtered water has entirely removed all incidences of stomach pains and diarrhea.

The Global Access team of Roger and Rob travel to the Amazon to distribute and validate water filtration systems through a grant funded by the Rotary Club of Flat Irons in Boulder with support of Conapac and the Rotary Club of Iquitos.