Amazon’s chief sustainability officer and Water.org co-founders took on spicy chicken wings to talk about the new initiative.
Amazon Chief Sustainability Officer Kara Hurst and Water.org Co-founders Gary White and actor Matt Damon recently sweat, cried, and chugged milk to draw attention to a community committed to solving the global water crisis.
Hurst, White, and Damon sampled five increasingly spicy chicken wings on “Hot Ones,” the YouTube show “with hot questions and even hotter wings” while fielding host Sean Evan’s queries about Get Blue, an initiative to make safe water accessible around the world.
“There’s about two billion people on planet Earth who don’t have access to safe water right now,” Damon said. “How can we solve this problem in our lifetime?"
With the launch of Get Blue, Water.org and founding brands Amazon, Ecolab, Gap, and Starbucks, are making it possible for anyone to help connect families to safe water.
When you donate to Get Blue or buy a Get Blue product—like a Blue Coconut Refresher at Starbucks—it helps Water.org’s local bank partners provide small loans for the pipes, pumps, or plumbing a family needs to bring water home. When that family repays their loan, that money can be loaned out again to the next family, and the next. Water.org has already helped 90 million people get access to safe water or sanitation and has a goal to reach 200 million people by 2030.
Amazon is a longtime partner of Water.org, helping change the lives of 1.25 million people with access to safe water or sanitation. And by the end of 2025, Amazon was 75% of the way to achieving our goal to be water positive in data centers by 2030, returning more water to the communities where we operate than we use in our direct data center operations. Now, we’re leveraging our scale to spread Get Blue’s message to a larger audience, Hurst said.
“If you have an Alexa, you can say, ‘Alexa, donate to Get Blue’—we’ll donate $5* on your behalf,” she said, “at no cost to you.”
Learn more about Get Blue.
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*One donation per household up to $500,000.
