Tap The Flow x Gravity Water
On July 24th, 2019, Gravity Water and Tap the Flow came together to transform art and music into global impact. Through this collaborative intentional project, Tap the Flow and Gravity Water aim to provide 1,000 children with access to a permanent source of safe drinking water which they will have access to every single day throughout the future.
Watch the featured video, find out more about this project, and how you can support this goal below.
Watch the featured video, find out more about this project, and how you can support this goal below.
Conceptualized And Created In 24 Hours
About Tap the Flow
“The Tap the Flow 24 project is an ongoing project where I, Ra.be, collaborate with musicians and videographers and in a 24 hour period we conceive of, create, and complete a song and video. 100% of the proceeds from these projects go to gravitywater.org. which is a non-profit / for purpose organization that implements water systems globally to those in greatest need. The inspiration for this project came from recognizing that I have a limitless resource for creativity as well as a wide creative community and together our collective resources could directly benefit our global community’s need for our most precious resource, water.”
– Rob Ball, Founder of Tap the Flow
Give Water. Get Art.
Turning Art into Clean Water
The painting below was completed by Autumn Skye during the Tap the Flow 24 hour session. As a sign of gratitude, Gravity Water, Tap the Flow, and Autumn Skye are gifting high-impact donors with a piece of this artwork to commemorate their direct support of providing clean water to communities in need.
To see more of Autumn Skye’s amazing artwork, visit www.autumnskyeart.com
To see more of Autumn Skye’s amazing artwork, visit www.autumnskyeart.com
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16″ x 22″ Paper Print
Donate $80 or more and provide 10+ children with a permanent source of safe water. Gravity Water x Tap the Flow will gift you with an extra large 16″ x 22″ high-quality giclee print on paper. 30″ x 40″ Canvas Print
Donate $600 or more and provide 750+ children with a permanent source of safe water. Gravity Water x Tap the Flow will gift you with an extra large 30″ x 40″ high-quality giclee print on 1″ thick canvas. 30″ x 40″ Original Painting
Artist Autumn Skye is donating 50% of the proceeds from the sale of this original painting to the Tap the Flow x Gravity Water campaign. Please contact danny@gravitywater.org for more information. |
Help us reach our goal of providing 1,000 children in Indonesia with a permanent source of safe drinking water this Fall. 100% of donations go to project costs.
Meet the Artists
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Issac Chambers – Australia
Fusing original chunky beats with soulful vocals and live instrumentation, Isaac’s music is known for it’s polished production and ability to always get a dance floor positively grooving. His downtempo style combines soulful Hip Hop and earthy Downbeat, seamlessly woven together with Reggae and World music grooves, mixing sexy electronic goodness with instrumental lushness. Check out Issac Chambers’ music. |
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Autumn Skye – Canada
Autumn Skye’s childhood was spent traveling the boundlessly majestic landscapes of North America, developing a deep wonder for nature and the diversity of humanity. She’s been translating this inspiration through artwork since she was old enough to hold a pencil. Recognizing her curious imagination, creativity was always supported by her family. Autumn Skye’s meticulous and poignant paintings continue to gain expanding recognition, attracting collectors and students from around the globe. As a self-taught artist, she has dedicated innumerable hours in creative exploration. Her style gracefully weaves together refined realism, iconic imagery, profound symbolism, and subtle geometries. Check out Autumn Skye’s art. |
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saQi – California
The mad-musical scientist known as saQi is a classically trained composer, producer and trumpet player. Drawing his name from the Sufi title for a mystic muse, saQi creates deep and funky dance floor jams that rock the party yet still maintain a grace and musical sophistication to engage the listener. His sound is unique and eclectic, therefore it often escapes genre classifications and any current bandwagon caravans. Whatever it is, it has a way of making people get up and get down! The project takes on many manifestations from solo dj sets to full live-band shows under the moniker of “The saQi Ensemble”. Check out saQi’s music. |
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Ryan Herr – California
Multi instrumentalist, composer, and producer, Ryan Herr, has been weaving his mix of live and electronic music for festivals, retreats and events throughout the world for nearly 20 years. He has a diverse and dynamic background of musical genres and styles and has been creating music for yoga, dance, film, and meditation. He focuses much of his musical attention to the medicinal aspects of music and dance and always incorporates a heavy dose of improvisation into his live sets. In recent years he has been recording and performing with artists such as Shaman’s Dream, The Polish Ambassador, Wildlight, Ayla Nereo and SaQi to name a few. Check out Ryan Herr’s music. |
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Sahuna Love – California
Sahuna Love (Craig Kohland) is the founder of the music project, Shaman’s Dream. Shaman’s Dream uses the power of music as a way the inspire, uplift and transmit healing energy into the world. Check out Shamans Dream music. |
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Hilatree – Colorado
Hilatree (Hilary) has been singing since childhood, and like many, music has served as her self-expression, guide and medicine. Growing up in a small town on the Ohio River, some of the first songs she learned were Gospel tunes. Captivated by the power of song, she began immersing herself deeper into the study of music. She combines elements of many styles – From the AME Church in Cincinnati where she sang in the choir, to the foothills of the Himalayas where she studied a bit of Indian Classical and mantra, and to New Orleans, where Jazz Improvisation was birthed, the underlying thread within the music she weaves with her voice is soul. Soul music. Check out Hilatree’s music. |
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Daniel Lesser – California
Daniel Lesser (Lesserspace) is a visual creative with a diverse background in digital mediums. Inspired by beauty, emotion, and creative flow, Daniel brings a new spin to video production with intimate shots, personal connection, and an attraction towards lush stories and motion. “Video is an immersive experience that has the capacity to give people a powerful experience, my aim is to provide that experience” -Daniel Lesser. |
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RA-BE 333 – California
RA-BE 333 (pronounced Rah-bee) is a lyricist and the founder, creator, and mastermind behind the Tap the Flow project. He lights crowds up with his thought provokingly deep lyricism, audience participation, call and response chants, witty humor between songs, and unleashing incredible freestyle raps on topics that he draws from the crowd into every show. His simple manifesto to Awaken, Uplift, and Move Bodies is balanced through his spell binding lyricism leaving the audience with a feeling of empowered energy and vital inspiration to ACT on what’s real to them. His highly curated and rotating cast of female singers, DJ’s, live instrumentalists, and dancers that the he seamlessly integrates into each show provide the secret sauce to take any performance from great to unforgettable. Check out RA-BE 333’s music. |
About Gravity Water
Gravity Water is focused on a brand-new, yet simple, solution to the Global Water Crisis.
Mission Statement:
Gravity Water combines rainwater harvesting, elevated storage, and gravity-fed filtration, providing communities in developing countries with a source of safe drinking water that is on-site, self-sustaining, and 100% energy-free.
Gravity Water combines rainwater harvesting, elevated storage, and gravity-fed filtration, providing communities in developing countries with a source of safe drinking water that is on-site, self-sustaining, and 100% energy-free.
Why Rain?
Did you know the vast majority of people who don’t have access to safe drinking water around the world live in the Tropics and Sub-tropics? That’s right. The majority of the nearly 2 billion people who don’t have accesses to safe water live in places where fresh water is not only present, it’s overwhelmingly abundant. The problem that most of these countries face is not a lack of access to fresh water, but water pollution and contamination (most commonly from sewage and fecal bacteria), making the water they have unsafe to drink.
The Earth has been filtering water for billions of years through the “water cycle”, turning water on the Earth’s surface and in the ocean’s into fresh rainwater through evaporation and condensation. Unlike groundwater, rainwater isn’t commonly at risk of pollutants until it reaches the ground where contamination occurs; this is why the World Health Organization considers rain an “Improved Drinking Water Source”, opposed to unprotected wells and surface water. Since fecal bacteria from human waste isn’t commonly found on roofs, rainwater harvesting and sterile storage largely prevents contamination from taking place.
Did you know the vast majority of people who don’t have access to safe drinking water around the world live in the Tropics and Sub-tropics? That’s right. The majority of the nearly 2 billion people who don’t have accesses to safe water live in places where fresh water is not only present, it’s overwhelmingly abundant. The problem that most of these countries face is not a lack of access to fresh water, but water pollution and contamination (most commonly from sewage and fecal bacteria), making the water they have unsafe to drink.
The Earth has been filtering water for billions of years through the “water cycle”, turning water on the Earth’s surface and in the ocean’s into fresh rainwater through evaporation and condensation. Unlike groundwater, rainwater isn’t commonly at risk of pollutants until it reaches the ground where contamination occurs; this is why the World Health Organization considers rain an “Improved Drinking Water Source”, opposed to unprotected wells and surface water. Since fecal bacteria from human waste isn’t commonly found on roofs, rainwater harvesting and sterile storage largely prevents contamination from taking place.
Using Gravity.
One of the greatest challenges that communities in developing countries face in regards to water access is access to a reliable source of electricity. Electricity is used to pump water from a source (river, spring, groundwater, etc…) to where it needs to be used by the community; however, many communities rely on “fetching” water, since pumping and electricity aren’t available or reliable. In addtion, electricity is usually needed to treat water, through powering sterilization or creating pressure for filtration.
However, there is one free energy source that can be used anywhere on earth, Gravity. Through harvesting rainwater and storing it above ground, Gravity Water systems provide pressure for filtration without the dependency of electricity, which is commonly lacking in rural areas, or pumps, which are commonly the first thing to break in water systems and the reason 6 out of 10 wells are currently inactive in Africa.
Gravity Water systems are the only water systems that combine treatment and prevention in a single system.
One of the greatest challenges that communities in developing countries face in regards to water access is access to a reliable source of electricity. Electricity is used to pump water from a source (river, spring, groundwater, etc…) to where it needs to be used by the community; however, many communities rely on “fetching” water, since pumping and electricity aren’t available or reliable. In addtion, electricity is usually needed to treat water, through powering sterilization or creating pressure for filtration.
However, there is one free energy source that can be used anywhere on earth, Gravity. Through harvesting rainwater and storing it above ground, Gravity Water systems provide pressure for filtration without the dependency of electricity, which is commonly lacking in rural areas, or pumps, which are commonly the first thing to break in water systems and the reason 6 out of 10 wells are currently inactive in Africa.
Gravity Water systems are the only water systems that combine treatment and prevention in a single system.
Creating a Community-Based Model to Scale Impact Globally.
Locally Sourced Materials and Skill Sets.
Gravity Water systems are built completely with locally sourced materials that are commonly found in developing countries. These include water tanks, basic filters, plumbing materials, cement, and metal. Using locally sourced materials has many benefits, including local familiarity with the materials, thus increasing connection and understanding by the community, supporting local economies through purchasing locally, and ease for replacement and maintenance if any problems arise with a part of the system.
In addition, Gravity Water systems are built with basic skill sets, such as plumbing and welding, eliminating dependency on foreign / advanced aid to develop the systems. This allows communities to be part of the building process, creating local jobs, empowerment, and ownership within every community.
Gravity Water systems are built completely with locally sourced materials that are commonly found in developing countries. These include water tanks, basic filters, plumbing materials, cement, and metal. Using locally sourced materials has many benefits, including local familiarity with the materials, thus increasing connection and understanding by the community, supporting local economies through purchasing locally, and ease for replacement and maintenance if any problems arise with a part of the system.
In addition, Gravity Water systems are built with basic skill sets, such as plumbing and welding, eliminating dependency on foreign / advanced aid to develop the systems. This allows communities to be part of the building process, creating local jobs, empowerment, and ownership within every community.
100% Locally Owned – Gravity Water’s Local Ownership Program.
Question: With BILLIONS of dollars invested in the Global Water Crisis over the last two decades, why haven’t we’ve made substantial improvements globally?
This is an important question we must ask, and Gravity Water strongly believes that clean water solutions MUST be scaled and implemented by local communities and be culturally adoptable, not through foreign aid and foreign technology. To address this, Gravity Water created the Local Ownership Program.
This is an important question we must ask, and Gravity Water strongly believes that clean water solutions MUST be scaled and implemented by local communities and be culturally adoptable, not through foreign aid and foreign technology. To address this, Gravity Water created the Local Ownership Program.
Creating a Scalable and Sustainable Model.
Since Gravity Water Systems are built with local materials and skill sets, a unique opportunity arises: foreign workers don’t need to be there. This is a big deal for a few reasons.
Since Gravity Water Systems are built with local materials and skill sets, a unique opportunity arises: foreign workers don’t need to be there. This is a big deal for a few reasons.
- Building Trust. When foreign workers come into a community, especially from western areas like the U.S. and Europe, trust and cultural understanding commonly becomes an issue. Removing foreign support allows communities to create leadership roles in managing, maintaining, and growing Gravity Water initiatives within their own country, using their own language and cultural pretext.
- Scalability. Providing local leadership and management roles that are led by nationals of each country Gravity Water works in allows for the initaitives to grow independently of “western” presence on the ground, allowing for greater global expansion, shorter stays within each country, and training of leadership positions in other parts of the world. Through creating a local management program, Gravity Water creates local job opportunities and allows the building and installation process to occur year-round and grow within each country.
- Follow-up. With local ownership and management on the ground 24/7, communication with communities and schools where Gravity Water systems are installed is easy and efficient. If a problem arises, the community doesn’t have to wait six months for a team to return; instead, they can call the local plumber or the associated National Director of Gravity Water to assist them with the issue immediately. This ensures that Gravity Water systems are always running and doing the job they are meant to do – provide safe drinking water to schools, every day.
Impact to Date: 11,000 Children provided safe drinking water, every day, in Nepal, Vietnam, Puerto Rico, and Indonesia.
Tap the Flow 2019 Project
This year, Tap the Flow is teaming up with Gravity Water with the goal of bringing 1,000 children in Indonesia a permanent and safe source of clean drinking water.
You can help us get there by donating below. $8 provides one child with safe drinking water and 100% of proceeds go to project costs in Indonesia.
You can help us get there by donating below. $8 provides one child with safe drinking water and 100% of proceeds go to project costs in Indonesia.
