Matt Damon brings call for clean water for all to Sundance

Source: AP

By SANDY COHEN

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The water contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan, is something millions of people across the globe experience every day.

Actor Matt Damon and Gary White, co-founders of the nonprofit Water.org, came to the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday to call attention to the desperate need for clean water in impoverished regions around the world.

"Imagine this outrage we feel about Flint — this justified outrage, I should say, because that should never happen in the United States of America, ever," Damon said in an interview with The Associated Press. "But there are people for whom life is such a desperate struggle, that they're faced every day with the choice of giving their children dirty water or no water at all."

Damon and White appeared alongside Todd Allen of Stella Artois to discuss the global water crisis and to announce their "Buy a Lady a Drink" campaign — so named because water shortages disproportionately affect women, who spend hours each day searching for water for their families.

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Actor Matt Damon, left, and Gary White, co-founders of Water.org, take part in a panel discussion on the global water crisis at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

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