Joe Knopp was a student at Walsh University when he first thought about the world's water crisis. Little did he know, his curiosity would change thousands of lives.
"I was in my second year of university when I decided to make this this leap of faith. I just felt like I had to go all in," he recalled. "I always heard my mom say, 'Drink your water before getting up from the dinner table, because there's kids that don't have that luxury on the other side of the world.
"So I looked over at my roommate ... and I said,' Chip, do you think we could solve this problem?' And he goes, 'No, Joe, you're crazy. Somebody else will have already done this by now.' And I researched and I learned that we could drill one well for about $8,000."
From there, Joe and Chip Gottschalk made a plan. They realized that selling water bottles would give them enough to build a well and they never looked back. Thus, Ripple Water Bottles was born.
Chris Webb reports.
