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Matthew Underbrink

Matthew Underbrink

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Day Twenty-Five: Every Day is Precious

On Day Twenty-Five, I coped with the news that a close family friend passed away unexpectedly. Not a single one of our days is guaranteed.  Watch my discuss my loss and the rest

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Twenty-Four: Coffee and a Commute

On Day Twenty Four I kicked off my streaming in the car with a Nitro Cold Brew from Starbucks. To make great coffee or tea you need clean water, for which I am

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Twenty-Three: Waking up at 4AM?!

On day twenty three I woke up at the unfortunate time of 4am and could not fall back asleep. So I got up and drank some water! Check out the playlist above with

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Twenty-Two: Are Your Tired of Watching Water Videos?

Cover Photo By unsplash-logoBrad Helmink

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Twenty-One: 2/3rds of the Way to the Finish!

Cover Photo By unsplash-logomrjn Photography

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Twenty: Come Watch Me Drink Water

Cover Photo By unsplash-logoEthan Sykes

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Nineteen: Water Drinking Recaps

Cover Photo by unsplash-logoJohnny Brown

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Eighteen: Video Recaps

Watch a playlist of all of day eighteen's videos.Cover Photo by unsplash-logoAlex Perez

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Day Seventeen: Giving away 3 copies of the book Thirst by Scott Harrison!

On Day 17 I announced I was giving away three copies of the book thirst! I wanted people to like and share the videos to be entered!Watch the remainder of Day 17

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Sixteen: Halfway done and a mini-donation train!

Today we are officially past the halfway mark of the 30-day #streamforwellschallenge! It's been a fun first half of the challenge, and I imagine the second half is going to fly by and

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Fifteen: Disgusted at the thought of something in my water?!

Day Fifteen is here and we are almost halfway through the challenge! I had an interesting occurrence while drinking water on one of the streams. I'm not sure if I dislodged something in

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Fourteen - Water Project Sustainability

There is a statistic that floats around the clean water conversation.  "40% of all clean water projects are broken at any point in time". With that kind of failure rate, why would we

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Thirteen: The Privilege of Busyness

Another busy weekend day has me thinking about what it means to be "busy". Often the word is attached with a negative connotation, or the idea that we don't have enough time to

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Twelve: Taking a Personal Journey

Day Twelve is here! This weekend I took a break from the regular horizontal streams due to some obligations, but don't worry - I kept streaming every time I drank anything!Saturday morning

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Eleven: Self Responsibility - Impossible Without Water?

Day Eleven! On today's longer stream I spent a few minutes discussing self-responsibility.  I'm a big fan of self responsibility, and think people should try and do what they can to do the

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Ten: Letikiros Hailu's Story. The Last Walk for Water.

Day ten covers the heartbreaking story of Letikiros Haiula, a 13 year old girl who hung herself on the return journey from gathering water, after she dropped and shattered her families water pot.

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Nine: Who is Scott Harrison?

Day Nine is done and we are well on our way to being a third of the way through the challenge. On day nine's morning stream, I went into depth on Scott Harrison,

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Eight: How you can donate to charity: water (or any charity of your choice), WITHOUT COSTING YOU MONEY! (AKA - do you know about smile.amazon.com?!)

Day Eight and I'm keeping it simple. We got a week under our belts with a little more than three weeks to go. For day 8 I really wanted to just share a

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Seven: Let's talk about Thirst (the book!)

Day Seven was an interesting day. I felt less sick than day 6, but I had a very difficult time swallowing or talking, so fewer streams, and less information overflow.In the, "AM

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Six: The Spring. How we can solve the solvable problem that is The Global Water Crisis.

This Day Six. On day Six I was really sick. I'll discuss that in more detail in the second half of this post.On today's morning stream I went into detail about the

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Five: Let's Learn more about charity: water.

It's day five, and even after a night low in sleep and waking up under the weather, I'm more excited for this challenge than day 1, and there was big progress during day

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Four: Why would anyone do this for 30 days?

30 days is a long time to do something. However, a lifetime of travelling to retrieve contaminated water for your family is even longer. In today's morning stream I go into depth on

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Three: I'm So Thankful! It's a Thanksgiving special!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!I'm writing this daily recap on Thanksgiving evening, and I cannot believe I'm already 10% of the way done with this 30 day challenge!In today's morning stream, I dig

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day Two: Why Water?

Day Two is all done and tucked away. I'm not sick of streaming yet! In the morning stream I addressed the question Why Water? Of all the things and reasons I could've chosen

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    Matthew Underbrink
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Day One: The Water Crisis. Kicking off a 30 Day #StreamForWellsChallenge.

Sorry for the lack of video halfway through, Facebook's servers had some crash and my phone failed to save the video.Day one is already filled with all sorts of 'fun' challenges and

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    Matthew Underbrink
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