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The Worth of Water: Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenge. Gary White and Matt Damon. Penguin Publishing Group. 2022. ISBN: 0593189973.

The Worth of Water is a 2022 non-fiction book about the effort to end the global water and sanitation crisis through market-based solutions and microfinance. The book narrates how the authors combined engineering, development economics, and celebrity advocacy to address the water crisis. A central theme is using microfinance and "water credit" so low-income households can take small loans to pay for taps, toilets, or connections, repaying from time saved and increased income, instead of relying solely on donated infrastructure such as charity-built wells.

Gary White is a civil and environmental engineer who has specialized in water and sanitation for low-income communities since the 1990s. He co-founded WaterPartners (1990), which later merged with Matt Damon's H2O Africa to become Water.org, where he now serves as CEO and co-founder. He developed WaterCredit, a microfinance-based approach that helps low-income households finance taps and toilets.

Matt Damon is an American actor and producer who became involved in global water issues after visiting communities without safe water and toilets in Africa in the mid-2000s. In 2006 he founded the H2O Africa Foundation, which later merged with White's WaterPartners to form Water.org in 2009.

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