Our Story
It’s all started when…
Water is life. It is a resource with economic, environmental, ecological and social dimensions. On a trip to africa, the BGW team saw first hand the many failed previous attempts to solve the water problem. They learned two billion people on our planet don’t have ready access to safe drinking water. In the developing world, 60% of deaths of children under the age of five are from waterborne illnesses. Girls endanger themselves by walking hours every day fetching water, giving up their chance for education and diminishing their future earning power. Billions of dollars in international aid has utterly failed to sustainably build and maintain water treatment plants or wells. Nations are already in conflict over diminishing water supplies. Poor health, little education, grinding poverty, strife. The cycle repeats.
Our founder saw the global water crisis as a “wicked problem” and a worthy challenge. Even a slight improvement would make the earth a better place for the next generation. She hoped that her systems thinking approach and experience implementing a USD 640 million cost-reduction program in the automobile industry would be helpful.
After years of research, the team created a plant-based, earth-friendly, socially inclusive, and revenue-generating water infrastructure model. BGW now seeks impact investors for our FUNDABLE NUGGETS to scale that model.