Our Impact
Clean Water, Closer to Home
Breakthrough Water has completed 220 wells since June 2012. Behind that number are communities, families, and children who can reach water closer to where daily life happens.
Verified impact figures
Based on confirmed well records containing population and family data. Actual reach may be higher.
Where the work has reached
Explore the Wells
Each marker is a completed Breakthrough Water well. Filter the map or search by well number or village to explore the work.
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133 of 220 completed wells are shown on the map. More will be added as their locations are confirmed.
Locations are rounded to approximately 1 kilometer to protect community privacy. The map shows where the work has happened. It is not meant for directions.
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What a village well changes
A Shared Source for Daily Life
Water collection often requires long walks and repeated trips. A shared village well shortens that walk, lightens the burden of carrying water, and returns time to family, work, school, and community life.
The details of each project differ, but the purpose is consistent: establish a local source that the community can use and share.
Clean Water Speaks Every Language
All his life, this village elder drew water from streams and ponds near his remote village in the Araku hills, water that was seldom clean. Even bringing the drilling equipment to his village was a struggle. When clean water came from the new well, he could not hold back. He threw it toward the sky and thanked God.
Clean water crosses every barrier of language. It speaks the common language of human love.
A school water-distribution project
Running Water Where Children Learn
At one school, Breakthrough Water installed a running-water system with an electric water pump, storage tank, and pipe network. Students can come to the taps to drink rather than manually pumping water for each drink.
Conservative by design
We Publish What the Records Confirm
The public figures on this website come from confirmed field records. Some well records do not contain population or family totals, so Breakthrough Water uses rounded, conservative numbers and does not estimate missing values into the public total.
Project records may include the village, drilling and opening dates, depth, the depth at which water was first found, and recorded family and population figures. We share only what helps tell the story, and we keep donor information and sensitive community details private.
A Breakthrough Water well photographed after years of community use.
The next project
Be Part of the Next Project
A completed well is a shared source of water and a lasting part of community life. Your gift helps Breakthrough Water continue this work in India and Sri Lanka.