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On the red carpet with his family at the "Aladin" premiere
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Talking to Flaunt magazine about the water filtration
boxes he donated to the city of Flint, Michigan:
Smith, via his nonprofits and with the help of other like- minded entrepreneurs, recently
deployed a purification device called The Water Box to Flint, Michigan—which, incredibly,
is nearing the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the contaminated water crisis, and still
suffering from polluted water. The Water Box filtration machine is located in the heart of
the city at First Trinity Missionary Church, and will supply hope and, most importantly, up
to 10 gallons of filtered water every 60 seconds to the community. The machine is equipped
with the bottled water quality filtration technology, with three-micron filters and an extra filter
specifically designed to remove lead—the unique and fatal bane of Flint’s contaminated water
supply. “The people in Flint are absolutely thrilled about The Water Box,” Smith says. “They
get to use it right away. It’s free, they just have to bring their own jug and we’ll fill it up for
them. The people there are trying to take showers with a bunch of 500 milliliter containers,
and now they can fill up a 5-gallon container and take that home with them. When you’re
trying to take a shower with bottled water that makes a big difference - as opposed to having
to dump 12 bottles of water on you. It still sucks, that you'd have to shower that way, but the
container size makes a world of a difference.”
The Water Box project in Flint is a work in progress. Smith is intent on preventing Flint from
fading from the public view. Sadly, as time has gone on, the nation’s attention has drifted.
The first year of the catastrophe Flint received 2 million donated bottles of water, the 2nd year
1 million, and this year the number has dwindled to 600,000. Smith weighs in on the details.
“They have received the least amount of donations this year out of all the years they’ve been
struggling, because people forget. Flint really needed this system because now the extra water
that is not coming in donations, they can get from the box. If you run this box 9-5 every day for
a year, you can do around a million bottles of 500ML equivalent of purified water, which is what
they were taking in donations.”
More shots from the Flaunt Magazine photo shoot
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Talking to Flaunt magazine about the water filtration
boxes he donated to the city of Flint, Michigan:
Smith, via his nonprofits and with the help of other like- minded entrepreneurs, recently
deployed a purification device called The Water Box to Flint, Michigan—which, incredibly,
is nearing the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the contaminated water crisis, and still
suffering from polluted water. The Water Box filtration machine is located in the heart of
the city at First Trinity Missionary Church, and will supply hope and, most importantly, up
to 10 gallons of filtered water every 60 seconds to the community. The machine is equipped
with the bottled water quality filtration technology, with three-micron filters and an extra filter
specifically designed to remove lead—the unique and fatal bane of Flint’s contaminated water
supply. “The people in Flint are absolutely thrilled about The Water Box,” Smith says. “They
get to use it right away. It’s free, they just have to bring their own jug and we’ll fill it up for
them. The people there are trying to take showers with a bunch of 500 milliliter containers,
and now they can fill up a 5-gallon container and take that home with them. When you’re
trying to take a shower with bottled water that makes a big difference - as opposed to having
to dump 12 bottles of water on you. It still sucks, that you'd have to shower that way, but the
container size makes a world of a difference.”
The Water Box project in Flint is a work in progress. Smith is intent on preventing Flint from
fading from the public view. Sadly, as time has gone on, the nation’s attention has drifted.
The first year of the catastrophe Flint received 2 million donated bottles of water, the 2nd year
1 million, and this year the number has dwindled to 600,000. Smith weighs in on the details.
“They have received the least amount of donations this year out of all the years they’ve been
struggling, because people forget. Flint really needed this system because now the extra water
that is not coming in donations, they can get from the box. If you run this box 9-5 every day for
a year, you can do around a million bottles of 500ML equivalent of purified water, which is what
they were taking in donations.”
More shots from the Flaunt Magazine photo shoot
