Subnautica Water Bottles now available! Each 1 sold gives 5 years clean water to 1 person in Africa
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Subnautica Animator & Generalist, NS2 Person Join Date: 2004-07-24 Member: 30071Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Silver, WC 2013 - Supporter, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
Hey everyone! 
We're Partnering with Givemetap on a great water-based Subnautica product that saves lives.
Each water bottle sold gives 1 person in Africa 5 years of clean water.
Go here to purchase a bottle and help save lives!
http://www.givemetap.com/products/subnautica
**Offer now over**
We're Partnering with Givemetap on a great water-based Subnautica product that saves lives.
Each water bottle sold gives 1 person in Africa 5 years of clean water.
Go here to purchase a bottle and help save lives!
http://www.givemetap.com/products/subnautica
**Offer now over**
Comments
Yes, I would definetly like some more information than a vague sentence. Not that I am against helping people, but there isn't really a specific place mentioned (other than "Africa" which is an entire continent) or a specific thing stating how my eighteen bucks can provide five years worth of drinking water.
Thought we'd make an account so we can address a few things.
For every bottle we sell, we take a portion of the revenue and allocate it to a fund that is used to install High Lift Afridev water pumps in rural communities in the District of Wa (Upper West Region of Ghana).
These pumps typically last for 20+ years, and on average cost around $6000 to install and are used to serve communities of roughly 750 people.
$6000 (cost of the pump) / 750 (avg no. of people) = $8.00 (this is what it costs us to give one person clean water for 20+ years)
$8.00 / 4 =$2.00 (what it costs us to give one person clean water for five years)
For every bottle sold, we give between $2.00 to our African NGO partner (ProNet North) in order to fund these water projects.
The amount we give never changes although the % will fluctuate between 10 and 20 depending on the type of order. For large orders we can offer a discounted price which means the % donated is closer to 20%. Whereas for our retail orders it will be closer to 10% as the price of the bottle is $18.
In our particular case we make sure we work with the local people. ProNet North (http://www.pronetnorth-ghana.org), our NGO partner, is a Ghanaian organisation made up of local people. They help us target the rural communities who are suffering from a lack of clean drinking water.
The money from your bottle purchases it used to hire Ghanaian hydrologists (to tell us where to dig) as well as a locally-based drilling company (to dig into the ground).
This campaign bottle goal is not dependent on us installing pumps. 25 is merely the minimum number of bottle orders we need in order to physical print the bottles. We will be funding our next water project in Yipala Ghana helping 958 people and if this campaign hits 25 bottles it will go towards funding that particular project!
Really appreciate the feedback and will definitely work to improve the messaging on our website.
Super excited to make these bottles happen
.COOL
And a way to help those poor people in africa.
We'd also really appreciate those who provided feedback about our messaging. We're always trying to be as clear and transparent as possible and we're definitely going to make some changes to our website.
Only two more bottles left until we hit 25 and the bottles can go to print!
Meanwhile the team and I are absolutely loving this game.
Wait a second .... theyre not extinguishing the lifepod fire with water from their own bottles? THIS CANT BE LEGIT
rural-water-supply.net/en/implementation/public-domain-handpumps/afridev
Those bottles aren't big enough to put out much of anything...unfortunately
You guys have gone above and beyond in answering the questions and concerns brought up, and with just what your company is doing in general, thank you so much
Thanks again for the kind note you left us Conor. Definitely made the team chuckle
Even though we've now reached the target, EVERY bottle still counts. Your purchase will go to towards funding our next project which we will be announcing very soon!
As far as I'm aware, once the campaign ends they will be made and then shipped.
Awesome. Thanks for the clarification.
2 Days left!
We'd like to thank each and everyone of you for your orders so far.
The response to this Movement Bottle has been incredible.
We'd also like to say a MASSIVE thank you to Flayra and Obraxis! Thank you for giving us the green light to make these bottles happen and helping us get the word out.
Also, for those of you running low on titanium, we have an extra special surprise. We're giving away one exclusive Titanium Grey bottle signed by the team! . All of you who purchased a bottle and shared the Tweet we sent you are eligible to win it.
Less than 24 hours to go so if you haven't purchased one yet this is your last chance.
Edit:I will be ordering one tonight!
It says 66 sold right there on the website link.