our story

It all started with this photo of a young girl sitting next to a padlocked tap in Nairobi, Kenya.

Young Kenyan Girl sat by a locked a water tap, Nairobi informal settlement

5 million lives changed

Duncan had just returned from 2 years motorbiking around the world. Having experienced first hand, life without safe, clean water, the photo inspired him to start One Water.

Created back in 2005, One sells bottled water to fund clean water projects for communities living in extreme poverty around the world.

Over 20 years on, together with The One Foundation, that idea has changed over 5 million lives.

Founder of One Water, Duncan Goose, holding a bottle of One Water

how it all began

It’s impossible to tell this story in a few words, so we hope you have a few spare minutes to watch this film.

Spoilers include a motorbike adventure around the world, a hurricane, 10 Downing Street and million to one chances…