A Mission worth Mentioning

 Kudos to our own Rick and Molly Jesse for this very cool mission to bring safe drinking water to impoverished areas of the world.  Vt Daily Chronicle article. 

Make Water Safe for the World:  MakeWaterSafe.org

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