The Water Well Trust at Work
This video documents the work of the Well Water Trust, and the projects your donations have supported to supply sanitary water wells to people without water in rural America
Water Wells for Americans With No Water Supply
The Water Well Trust (WWT) is a 501(c)3 organization created by the Water Systems Council to provide a clean water supply to American families living without access to a precious resource most of us take for granted.
The WWT and its partners provide funding for wells for low‐income families nationwide that need safe drinking water. There are many excellent organizations working to provide safe drinking water to people in need in developing countries. The Water Well Trust is the only national nonprofit organization helping Americans get access to a clean, safe water supply.
We serve Americans living primarily in rural, unincorporated areas or minority communities that may be isolated and difficult to reach. We assist low‐income families who live in areas where the extension of public water supplies to serve them doesn’t make economic sense…for them, for the public water supply owners, for federal, state or local funding sources.
Today in America, there are millions of people who are forced to haul water or to use contaminated water sources. Individual wells and small, shared wells are the best and most cost‐effective way to provide safe drinking water to these American homes.
Testimonials
Water is a precious resource and a true gift to our clients and their families. Here’s what some of our clients are saying:
We would like to thank everyone at the Water Well Trust with helping us get our new water well. Y’all are wonderful people! Again, thank y’all!
I’m so grateful and thankful to Water Well Trust for giving me a loan to get my well fixed. I truly appreciate y’all being there for me. The staff was so nice and friendly and I will recommend them to anyone in need. Thank you so much. And, may God bless you all.
We cannot thank you guys enough. No water, no life. In our case, we had limited water with limited life. You guys rock. We will finally, after more than a solid year, get to drink from our faucets and kids can fill up a bathtub…
Every night when I go to bed, I thank you and skip and our heavenly father for the water you gave us.
I’m super please with everything regarding my well. You. Rodgers. Placement of well. Everyone and everything! God first…who had provided all people and product!
Pentair and Water Well Trust made my life a lot easier. Thanks you guys. Y’all went above and beyond to make what seemed impossible very possible. And we are so thankful…
We can’t thank you enough. We have gone 6 years without running water when we bought our place. We are both disabled and you have helped us so much. We thank God every day for you and our water. Bless you all.
I cannot thank you enough for all your time and help so I can have running water after 15 years of living here without it. I never would have gotten it. I am so grateful! Thanks again!
Though we met so briefly, you felt like family. My life has changed so much since that encounter. Not only because of the well but because God proved to me that there were still people with compassion left in this world. Because of this well, I have been able to begin reclaiming my property that had grown over. I’m able to have gardens, which is a passion of mine. I also now have rabbits and soon ducks as well as my chickens. Yep, I’m a farm girl at heart! Being able to do these things has renewed my passion for living. I have lost 53 LBS and I’m regaining my health. What a difference a simple thing like water can make. Thank you for what you do.
I took a shower last night!! OMG! 🥰 it was amazing! They have to come and bury the water lines and do the finishing touches. He said early next week. We had a bad storm come through and they’ve had to get people’s water running again, which is why it’s been a delay, he said yesterday. So, today we’re having a water play day when I get off work! I’ll take pics. We’re going to play in the sprinkler!
I will tell you the well has been life-changing. It saves us 10-15 hours a week and relieves so much stress and planning around water! I just want to thank you again for all the time you’ve spent helping me get to this point. We deeply appreciate this opportunity.
We just want to say THANK YOU Water Well Trust for making our dream of having a well come true. We are so very grateful for your help. Getting this well will be such a life changer. We won’t know how to act without having to haul water in our car. Constantly hauling water jugs into the house for toilet use and everything else. Most of all we are really looking forward to being able to shower again. We are both 66 years old. It was beginning to be very hard on us not having a water well on our property. Again, we say thank you so very much for making our dream of having a water well come true. God Bless you all.
I was on a shared well and things got a little crazy, but I couldn’t afford to have my own well dug until you and Water Well Trust helped me. This new well has added a lot of value to my home, but more importantly, it will allow me to stay here where I’m comfortable and have great friends and neighbors. I’m not an overly religious person, but you are like an angel. Thank you!
This company has changed our lives forever.
In October 2022 we purchased a home and had no knowledge of a well on the property because the listing said the home was on city water. On the same day, we moved in, the water cut off while I was in the shower. That was how we found out about the well.
Some background, my husband and I are hardworking individuals who used to be very very very low income. When I gave birth to our first child, we had nowhere to live, and my husband was laid off from work the week before. We struggled hard for the first ten years of our marriage as we tried to make a life for our children, we lived on food stamps, etc. We wanted more for our kids so we went to college, I went to law school, I decided not to sit for the bar, and we, subsequently, found career paths we enjoy that allow us to spend time with our kids on a consistent daily basis. However, I had also racked up $200K in student loan debt. Yes, we also started earning more money; however, we are right in that sweet spot where we could never outright pay for a new well – yet we make enough to not require any outside aid.
You can probably imagine our distress when we learned that we were unable to get any assistance with having a new well drilled because of our income. With the new home loan and my student loan debt, no bank would touch our multiple requests for a personal loan.
We felt like we had entered a nightmare. We were only getting about 40-gallons a day from the old well. In order to make sure we were all clean and the laundry was done, we had to limit the kids to 1.5-minute showers, many times I would bathe in the water after the kids when we ran a bath, we did the laundry at a laundry mat & also in the bath water on some occasions – the list of creative things we did to survive is endless.
It broke my heart just a little more with each day that I was forced to time my kids in the shower. I felt like I was a complete failure as a parent. At one point, I had to save rainwater to wash things like comforters and towels, dishes, etc., because we had no water.
When I contacted WWT, they determined we were over the income limit; and yet Sherry reassured me they do have some companies that are willing to work with families that have kids even if they don’t qualify due to their income.
You might be able to imagine, I considered WWT a long shot. I felt like we were going to have to live like this forever…
After a year or so, we considered selling, which would have been a huge loss. Because of the interest rates our family, which has three kids, would not be able to buy a new house – we would have had to move into an apartment. It was a hopeless situation.
Then, a miracle happened. Sherry called me and said they found someone who was willing to bless our family with a new well. I cried, and when I say I cried, I SOBBED like a big crybaby, tears of joy and relief and gratitude. I was in disbelief that this was actually happening. I had been in this nightmare for so long and thought it would never end. Then these amazing people were true to their word and found someone to support us in our dire time of need.
We now have water, and a well, and we bathe – we bathe for as long as we want. We can water the garden, which was deprived for so long the plants are overgrowing everything else! We can run the dishwasher, and do laundry, and shower AT THE SAME TIME! My children no longer feel like we don’t want them to be clean (they have no shower time limit – in fact, they can shower as many times daily as their hearts desire).
The despair is gone.
I cannot express my family’s gratitude enough. We have truly been given a gift. It saddens me to know that there are other families who struggle with this same issue daily – water is a basic human right, and yet, we had none. I encourage anyone who is struggling to live because of water issues to contact WWT. This company is truly a blessing to all the lives they touch.
Thank you WWT.
I wanted to let you know that my mom just called me to let me know they had warm water and the bathroom worked! Apparently, it all just got hooked up and working a couple of hours ago, so they are going to take showers ASAP! Please accept hugs, thanks, and so much appreciation from myself, my mom, and family in what you did for them. There are no words that can be said to portray how much this means. Mom told me to give you “hugs and kisses”. Thank you for helping them out.
The Water Well Trust: Providing Well Water to Those in Need
Program Director, Margaret Martens, reports on the Water Well Trust and providing well water to those in need at the 2019 Private Well Conference.
Water Well Trust Expands Water Well Projects to Fourteen Counties in Arkansas
The Water Well Trust, the only national nonprofit helping low-income Americans get access to a clean, safe water supply, has announced that it is expanding from thirteen to fourteen the number of Arkansas counties eligible to receive assistance for drilling a new water well or rehabilitate an existing well. In…