Giving Compass' Take:

• Proctor & Gamble created a product that can turn 10 liters of dirty water into clean, drinkable water in 30 minutes. This technology is helping the company reach its goal of delivering 25 billion liters of clean water by 2025.

• Can donors play a role in financing tech innovation for water and sanitation? 

• Read more about why clean water all starts with technology. 

Water is essential to human life, yet 2.1 billion people lack access to safe, clean water at home, according to the World Health Organization and UNICEF. And nearly 844 million people worldwide do not have access to clean drinking water at all.

For more than a decade, Procter & Gamble has worked to increase access to clean water and, the company is celebrating a major accomplishment: delivering 15 billion liters of clean water to families around the world.

And now, P&G is challenging itself to go even further by delivering 25 billion liters of clean water by 2025.

The company’s success in reaching its goal is, in large part, due to its innovation.

While trying to develop a technology to separate dirt from used laundry water, P&G scientists created what would become the company’s water purification sachets.

The small sachets enable people to turn 10 liters of dirty, undrinkable water into clean, potable water in 30 minutes, using just the sachet, a bucket, a clean cloth, and a stick, according to P&G.

Through its nonprofit, Children’s Safe Drinking Water, P&G worked with more than 150 partners across 90 countries to raise awareness about the global water crisis and to bring clean water to families.

Read the full article about delivering clean water at Global Citizen.