This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by the all new Jeep Wrangler,

giving you the freedom to pursue adventures, like former pro-surfer John Rose.

Anybody who's a professional athlete, there's an arc, you know, there's a shelf life.

For me, I was a pro-surfer, and I was never the best, but I carved my own niche out and I did it for 13 years.

It was everything to me. out and I did it for 13 years.

It was everything to me.

In 2009, John went to Indonesia on a surf trip,

right when it got hit by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake.

And I became sort of a first responder by accident. One month later was Haiti.

The big catastrophic earthquake in January 2010. I thought I was going for two weeks. I stayed for two years.

So that was the inception of Waves for Water.

Waster Water is an aid organization that helps provide clean water in more than 40 countries.

We have one sole purpose, provide access to clean drinking water for developing communities.

Not just developing communities, but recovering communities too.

For the last eight years, whenever a disaster strikes that threatens drinking water,

like an earthquake, tsunami, or hurricane, John and his team show up with suitcases full

of water filters.

In the first three weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico,

he set up 3,600 filtration stations and got clean water to 100,000 people.

Thinking about that trajectory was so fast.

I mean, I bought 10 filters of my own money, went to Indonesia,

and three months later in Haiti, somebody offered me $40,000 to do as much as I could with that.

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