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Mission Statement
Save lives by eradicating the #1 cause of disease and death in the developing world through the delivery of clean water.
A Global Coalition For Clean Water
Development
Global Water Trust (GWT) is mobilizing an international coalition of key players from the financial, philanthropic, technology, NGO, media, entertainment, corporate, government and civil society communities. Through this coalition, the Trust will organize, manage and deploy the critical resources required to combat the global water crisis. Without clean water, children will continue to die at a rate of 10,000 per day, developing world economies will collapse or never get off the ground, health care costs will skyrocket, hopes for a global economy will disappear, AIDS drug programs will fail and bloody wars will erupt.
The challenge is to develop new ways of inspiring funding for clean water projects, introduce new technologies and equipment to deliver clean water, train civil society to efficiently operate and manage clean water projects and dramatically increase awareness and media attention of this epidemic health and economic crisis.
By leading a global water coalition, the Global Water Trust believes that it is possible to reach the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people without clean water by 2015. Unless the entire world unites to solve this crisis, “nearly 75% of all human beings will experience the devastating health and economic affects of dirty water by 2025,” according to the United Nations and World Health Organization. A world without clean water is a world literally dying of thirst. The time to act is now.
Clean Water Trust Fund
Global Water Trust, a Los Angeles based non-profit organization, is establishing a trust fund that will radically improve the health, social and economic well being of millions of rural people through the purification and delivery of clean water. GWT and its partners will create Water For Life programs in areas of severe water scarcity and regional conflict. Pilot projects will commence in Asia, Africa, South and Central America in 2004. These regions will benefit from the health, economic and social stability that clean water provides. Through a blend of public, private and donor finance, GWT’s humanitarian and economic model will guarantee sustainable clean water to people at a cost they can afford. With the delivery of community owned and operated water systems, GWT will become the catalyst for economic, social and entrepreneurial growth throughout the developing world. GWT will save lives, create jobs and serve as a guarantor for the operation, maintenance and payment of clean water systems. Along with its coalition of partners, Global Water Trust is positioned to mobilize a singular, global force forcreating a peaceful balance between water as a human right and water as an economic good and service..
Bringing Entrepreneurial Expertise
To Social Causes
The Global Water Trust emerged from the vision of two successful entrepreneurs who believed that their life challenge went beyond realizing profits. Rob Kramer and Lisa Eisenpresser embarked upon their mission to provide Water For Life throughout the developing world. With over 35 years of combined experience in the private sector, Global Water Trust's co-founders are committed to applying their skills to help bring clean water within physical and economic reach of the world's most water impoverished people.
Founders
Rob Kramer, Chairman & Co-Founder
Rob is the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Global Water Trust, a Los Angeles based non-profit dedicated to eradicating the #1 cause of disease and death in the world through the purification and delivery of clean water. Rob has spent the past 18 years as a successful entrepreneur, executive and strategist in the new media and technology industries. Most recently, Rob was President and CEO, and outgoing Chairman, of Uprizer, Inc., an Intel-funded high tech software company. Rob spent six years pioneering the interactive CD-ROM and computer animation industries as President of Moving Pixels where he co-created a proprietary 2D/3D computer animation technology featured at the prestigious Siggraph Conference. Prior to that, Rob was President and Executive Producer of Pagan Films, a music video and commercial production company. He has also served as a management consultant to Viacom, MTV and Universal and as Producer and fundraiser for the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (the premiere jazz education institute in the world). For the past 13 years, Rob has been an avid yoga and meditation practitioner, and has taught yoga for the past five years.. He is a sponsored alumnus of the 2003 Aspen Institute Socrates Seminar on "Globalization." Rob holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Carnegie School of Journalism.
Lisa Eisenpresser, Co-Founder
Lisa is a Co-Founder of the Global Water Trust, a California based non-profit dedicated to eradicating the #1 cause of disease and death in the world through the purification and delivery of clean water. Lisa's background combines traditional and new media production, marketing, strategy and investing. Most recently, Lisa was an executive at Ronald Lauder Investments in New York where she helped build Infinity Holdings, a venture capital group focused on providing business development services to media and technology companies. Her career began in television with South Africa Now. In 1992, Lisa co-developed the first real-time digital video sampler. Since then she has continued to develop and promote innovative tools that turn passive consumers into active producers of information and entertainment. Lisa created, directed and produced "Satori," a thirteen-week program focused on alternative health and personal potential, for the Microsoft Network. She has held executive positions at Internet companies, Brilliant Digital Entertainment, IXL, and AND Interactive, a division of TCI, Inc. after working at Time Warner Interactive in 1994. Lisa is a sponsored alumnus of the 2003 Aspen Institute Socrates Seminar on "Globalization." She holds a B.A. with honors in Comparative Literature and Semiotics from Brown University where she also received a Ford Foundation Grant in Modern Culture and Media.
Contact
Global Water Trust
1007 Montana Avenue, no. 323
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Phone: 310-450-1749
Rob Kramer, Chairman & Co-Founder
rob@globalwatertrust.org
Lisa Eisenpresser, Co-Founder
lisa@globalwatertrust.org
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