One of the greatest moments in my life was when I discovered "my luck". It came to me through an experience with water.

I had just finished giving a talk over breakfast to about 100 wealthy Indian business owners at one of the most luxurious hotels in Mumbai, India.

Afterwards, the organiser asked me if I wanted to meet her friend who ran a school in the slum area of Mumbai and I enthusiastically accepted the offer not really knowing what I was in store for.

We caught a cab into the heart of the slum area. This wasn’t just a few people doing it tough, this was millions of people living on top of each other. Each person, desperately seeking a better life, each struggling for survival without what I would consider the basics of clean water, electricity and a solid roof to sleep under.

I ventured into the school and met with a class of 40 vibrant students. The tin shed classroom was a sweltering sauna. Yet the kids were so eager to learn. They scribed out their alphabets with broken chalk on their slate. They listened enthusiastically to their teacher and they graciously accepted me being in their class.

Their cloths were little more than rags, probably thrown out by someone in the west for having a small rip or stain, they were now the only set of cloths these kids had.

As my day of touring ended I got back into a taxi and headed to my next hotel. My cab crawled along in peak traffic and with no air conditioning the sweat rolled down my face. I sat staring at scene after scene of poverty for two hours.

At one point the cab passed an aide agency dumping barrels of clean water on the road and dozens of people swarmed in to fill their drinking containers. One little boy who must have been barely 5 years old pushed a rusty tin can under the stream and gladly drank from it. It broke my heart to watch.

Then after what seemed like hours in the cab, we rounded a corner, to my five star hotel where the guards waved us through the gates.

On the other side were beautiful water features. Fountains flowed gallons of clean drinkable water from statues, sprinklers kept the pristine gardens green and a waterfall churned down an artificial rock face into the pools.

Although it was nothing I hadn’t seen before but on this day I felt my heart tearing up just looking at it.

Emotional and overheated, I checked into the hotel. The receptionist recognised I was a speaker at the conference and offered me an upgrade. I was ushered to a “Superior Room” that was about four times the size of the school I’d just been in.

This was all becoming too much, I figured I better shower and cool off. As I turned the shower on, four water jets came to life and so did my eyes.

Tears streamed down my face. I had felt so closely connected to the children in the school, so welcomed and so happy to be with them. Now I was set in a scene that would beyond their wildest dreams.

What’s worse is that this wasn’t a new scene for me. It was just another 5 star hotel, cut and paste like any other I’d stayed in on my travels.

In that moment, I discovered my luck. For the first time ever, my eyes were open to how every moment of my life I had been living one of the luckiest lives in the history of humanity.

It suddenly hit me, I have water, education, food, housing and a free mind.

I have film makers spending millions to create entertainment for me on the off chance I might watch it. I have airlines running fleets of planes around the world on the off chance I want to fly. I have farmers preparing their best produce and sending it minutes from my front door.

I live in such a lucky time in history! Never in history could people get their questions answered in seconds. Never in history could people communicate their ideas with so many others. Never in history has there been more finance, more resources, more exciting conversations.

Whichever way I looked at it, I’m living a life more extravagant than the royal families throughout the ages. King Louis XIV would sit talking to me with his jaw open in amazement of what I have access to in my day to day life.

When all that really hit me I truly got it... “I’m so lucky!”

And so are you.

Many of us have no idea what it's like to be thirsty. We have plenty of water to drink -- even the water in our toilets is clean!

But many people around the world don’t have that luxury. Every day, about 1,400 children die from diseases caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are simple solutions like drilled wells, spring protections and BioSand filters that help provide clean water to communities around the world.

I started this fundraising campaign to help charity: water build these types of projects around the world, and I'm looking for anyone who can help me.

Please donate to my campaign -- anything you can give is a huge help.

100% of the money will be used to build clean water projects, and when they’re complete, charity: water will send us photos and GPS coordinates so we can see the exact community we helped.