Have you ever said, "I'm dying of thirst?" If so, I bet you didn't really mean it. Many of us have no idea what it's like to be truly thirsty.

Here in the United States, we use about 400 billion gallons of water each day. That means the average family of four is responsible for about 400 gallons per day!

But imagine if you had no clean water. Imagine sweating and straining to haul contaminated water back to your family. Imagine suffering from preventable illnesses like worms, dysentery or other diarrheal diseases.

More than a billion people don't have access to safe drinking water. I don't mean that their pipes don't work; I mean that they have to walk hours each day to collect dirty water from stagnant ponds and muddy rivers. And the crazy thing is that for so many of them, clean water runs in aquifers under their homes and villages. But they don't have the drilling equipment or the money to reach it.

It’s hard to imagine that people live like this but they do. I don't want to sit by and just do nothing; I want to give people clean drinking water.

When I learned that only $20 can give someone access to clean, safe water, I decided to start a campaign to help. My goal is to raise $1,000.00 for Charity: water. They will use 100% of the money to directly fund the water projects in the field. Even better, when the projects are complete, they'll show me just where our money went. That's right -- we'll be able to see the GPS coordinates, photos and other details about the community we've impacted!

I've never actually been dying of thirst. I'm sure we'd all like to see a world where no one is.

Together, we can make a dent in the global water crisis. I hope you'll consider donating whatever you can to my campaign for this worthy cause. Thanks!