TEXAS WATER MISSION INC
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Mission Statement
Texas Water Mission supports communities in need by providing safe drinking water & hygiene solutions.
About This Cause
Texas Water Mission (TWM) has helped over 80,000 people in Honduras, Haiti, and the Navajo Nation gain access to clean water since 1998. The work of providing safe drinking water to communities in need began informally when a group of parishioners from San Antonio, Texas flew to Honduras to determine how they might help in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch. The discovery that cholera was being spread by contaminated water set things in motion. All these years later we are still finding practical solutions to access safe water and training children and adults in our project areas about best practices for maintaining health and hygiene and conserving scarce resources. Since 1998, the impacts of climate change have worsened and more of the world experiences drought and intense storms on a regular basis. Honduras, with its rainy and dry seasons, swings from one extreme to the other, paralyzed by heavy rains and flooding from May to October, and the drying out of natural water sources shortly after their summer begins in November. Honduras’ ongoing water crisis is further complicated by poverty, crime, and political unrest, creating a life full of disruptions. This is also the case in Haiti where TWM subsidized a solar powered rainwater cistern for a small church and school in 2021, which is maintained by a larger organization. TWM continues to monitor and maintain its 30+ active water wells, education program, and water filter project in Honduras, in addition to drilling new wells and investigating additional opportunities for safe water projects. TWM added the Navajo Nation to its scope of work in 2019. The first project was construction and distribution of handwashing stations and emergency supplies to 120 families isolated by Covid. Shortly thereafter, TWM installed and plumbed an underground cistern to supply an Episcopal community center with clean water. Currently, the organization is working with the Episcopal Church in Navajoland (ECN) to improve a well at St. Mary's in the Moonlight Episcopal church near Monument Valley, Utah, that will eventually be utilized for a public water access point to provide free, safe well water to approximately 5,000 residents of the reservation. TWM raises funds through private contributions, an annual fundraising dinner, grants, and coffee sales. In addition, the organization partners to put on a World Water Day educational event at a venue on the San Antonio River each year. The annual dinner celebrates the people and geographies where TWM works, by sharing stories, photos, food and music from those locales. TWM's coffee comes from the Honduran Coffee Alliance, which supports small coffee farms in Honduras. The raw beans are shipped to roasters all over the world, and TWM sources theirs from Volunteer Coffee outside of San Antonio. The proceeds from this gourmet coffee, labeled “Coffee into Water,” support clean water projects in Honduras and the Navajo Nation. The coffee is for sale on TWM’s website www.texaswatermission.org/coffeeintowater, and at all organizational events. A project goal is to get the coffee into local grocery stores. Thank you for your interest in Texas Water Mission.