Thank you for your generous gift! This report will introduce you to St. Michaels Association for Special Education (SMASE) and the impact you have made in their lives.

Welcome to Northeast Arizona. The people who work at and attend SMASE call this beautiful place home.

The SMASE students and faculty used to rely on hauling bottled water to clean, cook, drink, and bathe.

But not anymore.

All of that changed when you and DIGDEEP brought them clean water.

We've prepared this report to show you your impact. Let's get started!

If you’ve ever had your water shut off for routine maintenance, you know how tough it is to go even a few hours without running water. For an estimated 2 million Americans, life without clean running water is a daily reality.

These Americans collect all their water from sources dozens of miles away from their homes, either filling up buckets from wells or purchasing expensive bottled water in grocery stores. In a country where 99.5% of the population has clean running water, this is unacceptable.

DIGDEEP is the only global water organization working on projects here in the US. We started that work on the Navajo Nation. By focusing on low-tech, high-impact solutions, DIGDEEP is making a big impact in this area.

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Check out these photos from the Navajo Water Project and keep reading for more information on the technology we used.

You are amazing. You really, really are.

Thanks for sharing your hard-earned resources with an entire school. No American should live without clean, running water. Your generosity proves that we're all in this together!

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St Michaels Association for Special Education (SMASE), the only special needs school on the Navajo Nation, first opened in 1968. Their tap water used to be black and odorous and it wasn't safe to drink. Since most of the students are medically fragile, they need pure, clean water to bathe, drink, clean their medical equipment, and prepare meals. The school used to spend thousands of dollars on bottled water every year, and moved the big bottles from building-to-building in wagons.

With the help of donors like you, DigDeep organized a project to ensure that clean water would flow through every bath, shower and faucet at St Michaels. The 120 people who now can cook, clean, drink and bathe are incredibly grateful and want to thank you for your generous contribution.

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Visit waterforsaintmichaels.org to see more videos and photos of the project. If you are interested in SMASE, check out their website at smase.org.

CHAPTER: ST. MICHAELS, NAVAJO NATION

LOCATION: NORTHEAST ARIZONA

GPS: 35.646686, -109.095069

COMPLETED: 2019

TECHNOLOGY: FLOWATER STATIONS AND PLUMBING REPLACEMENT

SOURCE: NAVAJO TRIBAL UTILITY AUTHORITY (NTUA)

LOCAL ALLY: ST. MICHAELS ASSOCIATION FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION (SMASE)

CONSTRUCTION: HORIZON PLUMBING AND UA LOCAL 412

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We collect a TON of project data; this is just a snapshot.

Every DIGDEEP project uses a Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) that measures the way water access achieves other key goals like health, gender equity, and access to education. Every DIGDEEP project is community-led and uses locally-appropriate technology.

This project is one small part of the larger Navajo Water Project - a multi-million dollar initiative to bring clean, running water to hundreds of families in Northwest New Mexico.

We're investing in home water systems, solar solutions, water trucking programs and new clean water sources like wells.

Explore the whole Navajo Water project by visiting the website: navajowaterproject.org

DIGDEEP believes in real empowerment, measurable impact and radical transparency.

We use 100% of every donation to support to communities in need.

When we work together, we can do amazing things.

First, DigDeep installed five FloWater machines to provide safe water in the short term.

Then, we worked with skilled engineers to conduct water tests and draft a remediation plan.

Next, the local utility helped clean the source water by flushing their lines, and DigDeep staff completely replaced the plumbing in 14 buildings.

Finally, we installed a combination of 18 carbon and 24 membrane filters.

Now that you've seen the incredible impact your gift can have, why not give again?

It costs $14 a month to deliver water to a family in need of it. And there are hundreds of families still waiting to get a water system.

You can sponsor that amount every month, make a new gift to a family in need or even give in someone's name.

We'll use 100% of your gift on another project like this one, and we'll send you another impact report.