Puerto Rico still doesn't have clean, safe water. Here's how you can help.

When Mark Hogg recently traveled to Puerto Rico to help deliver safe water kits to the hurricane-ravaged island, he met locals who wept at the sight of clean water. 

Hogg, founder and CEO of the Louisville-based nonprofit organization WaterStep, arrived in rural Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, earlier this month and was shocked by the devastation. 

Despite rosy statistics from the U.S. government claiming that nearly three-quarters of the island’s residents had access to safe water, Hogg traveled to communities where residents relied on creeks, rivers, and hillside streams for water. Desperate to drink, bathe, clean, and cook, they collected that water in filthy jugs, bottles, and tanks. Some even turned to gathering water from a Superfund site. (Experts contacted by CNN tested the water and said it was safe to drink.) Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Puerto Rico still doesn't have clean, safe water. Here's how you can help.