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"CAUSE: Nina Church and her family started Nika Water, an environmentally responsible water bottle company that donates 100 percent of its profits to support clean water projects in impoverished countries. An estimated 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to safe, drinkable water. Water-related diseases caused by contaminated water result in thousands of deaths a day in the developing world. The lack of available clean water also has social consequences: Many women and children spend their days trekking to remote water sources, leaving no time for them to earn an elementary education. Eighteen-year-old Nina is working to break this cycle of poverty.\n\nEFFECT: Nika Water has committed more than $400,000 to bring clean water to over 7,000 people worldwide. Since its launch in 2009, Nika has completed projects in Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Nicaragua. It is the first CarbonFree-certified water bottle company (Nika offsets its carbon footprint by funding the planting of trees in Nicaragua), and it also participates in the One-for-One Recycling Program.\n\nGET INVOLVED: Nika Water is currently on sale in California and Nevada. If you live in the California area, you can volunteer and sell Nika Water at street fares and on the beach. Nika Water is hoping to expand to other states, and you can help spread the word about Nika and the world water crisis over social media platforms."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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