Innovation

The story of an entrepreneur with a simple ambition and an extraordinary determination to change the world with an everyday product and a global ecological movement.

On the same day that Henry Timms talked with Brunswick Chairman Sir Alan Parker about how to harness “new power,” the global, grassroots philanthropic movement he co-founded raised more than $2.4 billion.

The water.org founders argue that the way to bring clean water and sanitation to the poor of the world at scale isn’t by drilling wells or installing toilets. Nor is it through charity alone. The…