Clean drinking water is a serious concern in many parts of India. Three out of the top four causes of death in India are waterborne. There are also immense difficulties associated with the lack of clean water. The lack of clean water affects school attendance and days lost to the work force. The World Bank estimates that 21% of communicable diseases in India are related to unsafe water. The World Health Organization estimates the percentage much higher. Diarrhea alone causes more than 1,600 deaths daily. No matter who is doing the research, most of the people that we love through Tapestry suffer from a lack of clean water. If you would like to educate yourself on clean water issues in India, we recommend that you do a web search on, "problems associated with lack of clean water in India" And while the entire world's clean water problem might be bigger than our ability to address, we can make an incredible difference in the villages that we serve. There are already approximately one thousand people drinking clean water because of what you are doing through Tapestry.

In 2011, Bhil tribesmen asked if we could help their villages get clean water. So, we learned about bio-sand filters and how to build them. In 2012 Brent went back with training and supplies so that they could make Bio Sand filters. Since then, we have supplied filter training and materials for people in two additional Indian states.