OBSERVATIONS FROM MY RAIN CATCHING TRIP TO KENYA:

I know all too well there is no way to be here without being permanently changed. Such is my bond with Africa.

I give my self completely - blending with this place, these people, inventing a tomorrow where everyone has clean water to drink, everyday, just like we have at home.

I don't think it's too much to ask for - and so I ask and will ask, over and over and over again, until it is done.

If NASA can ask for billions to search for water on Mars, then we can ask the same for water here on Earth.

If DEPT. OF WAR can ask for 20 million for one tank, then we can ask the same for 40 million tanks.
-1 army tank = 40 million water tanks, the equation of common sense.

Resources allocated for space water exploration, redirected back to Earth, would provide clean, safe drinking water for everyone, almost over night.

This isn't philosophy or politics, it's hardware: tanks, gutters, filters - distributed through the many non-profits already in the field, doing good work, bringing as much water as they can.

It's just a matter of hardware. We have the resources, why aren't we sharing all this? There's far more than we could ever use.

Soon, the RainCatcher documentary will tell the story of 'Water for Everyone', featuring the historical, geo-political, natural resource and humanitarian expressions of the relentless quest for water - Bringing to the big screen for the first time images of people all over the world catching and using rainwater.

Simple solutions for everyday problems will be be discovered and revealed and woven through the story.

Dramatic threads will include water wars and water woes, and amazing displays of natures' abundance.

Example: One days' rainfall on one mountain in Hawaii is equal to the amount of bottled water Americans consume in one year.

There are many such spigots all around the Earth. The RainCatcher documentary will put a bucket under each one and tally the catch, showing how supply far exceeds demand.

The film will clearly show there is no shortage of water given, just a shortage of water received. The gift has been offered,
but we are required to meet it half way, we must put a bucket under the rain storm.

A billion buckets, actually. The film will spotlight all the clever ways people are already doing this around the world.

Including interviews with the inventors who dream up unusual ways to catch it, store it, clean it and bottle it.

And the film will also show designs of the future, where every golf course is a RainCatcher, and every shopping center parking lot, and roof tops of giant commercial and industrial buildings, and every new house built with a ten thousand gallon water storage tank buried under the back lawn. (I'm creating the model for this in Malibu, near the High School)

There are villages in India with laws requiring homeowners to catch and collect all the rainwater that falls on their roofs. California will have the same law 20 years from now.

We're not talking rocket science here. Just tanks, gutters & filters. That's all it takes. That's all I'm asking for.

There will be a day when clean, safe water is available for everyone. I have seen it. This movie points to that day with passion, grace and hope.

The problem is clear: 5 million die each year from exposure to contaminated water. Billions lack consistent access to clean water. Fortunately this is a solvable problem, a matter of hardware. My wish list has only three items on it: tanks, gutters and filters.

'Water for Everyone', the RainCatcher documentary tells the story of many people in many places already catching as much rain as they can, but needing more hardware.

Who can you help me make this movie, tell this story and get this hardware to those who need it?