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Scott Harrison's Mission to Eradicate the Global Water Crisis

Name: Scott Harrison's Mission to Eradicate the Global Water Crisis
Uploaded: 2018-09-07T17:52:47+00:00
Duration: 1 min 18 s
Channel: Patrick Biddiscombe
Description: Scott Harrison recounts his path to founding Water, starting with a childhood near-death experience from a carbon monoxide leak in his Philadelphia home…

7 Sept 2018 · 1 min

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Scott Harrison recounts his path to founding Water, starting with a childhood near-death experience from a carbon monoxide leak in his Philadelphia home. He weaves together his own birthdays, his daughter's, and Water's 12th anniversary to explain how personal crisis shaped his mission to solve the global water crisis.

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Good morning inbound. It's good to be here. Yeah. 43 today. What's even more exciting is today is also my daughter's birthday and she turns 2. So I care so much about the work that I'm here. I left my family at home and I'm just so excited to be here. There's actually one more occasion today. It's also Water's 12th birthday, so we just stacked it all up. I started the organization on my birthday, started having kids on my birthday. So I really can't think of a better way to start the day off to share my story with you. So I'm going to start at the beginning. This is me. I was born in Philadelphia to a middle class family. We have Philly in the house. All right, mom, dad, he was a business guy. She was a writer at the local paper. And when I was four years old, we moved into this house to get closer to my father's job. He wanted to reduce his commute so he could spend more time together as a family. Now, what we did not know was that this house had a carbon monoxide gas leak. This was before they had invented the detector that you now buy at Home Depot. So we move into this house and we all start getting a little sick.