At Tommy’s Express, we strive to enrich lives, add value, and serve communities. One of the ways we achieve this goal is by partnering with nonprofits like Water Mission.  

With every single wash at Tommy’s Express, we donate to Water Mission, a clean water charity that builds safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions in developing countries and disaster areas.  

To date, Water Mission has served more than 7 million people in 57 countries. 

Recent response efforts include:  
 

1. Deploying emergency water treatment equipment into Ukraine and assembling hygiene kits for those displaced by the conflict. Water Mission was one of the first nonprofits to produce water in multiple cities in Ukraine.     

2. After the August 2021 earthquake in Haiti, Water Mission utilized its nearly 40 safe water projects in southern Haiti to produce extra water for neighboring communities that had lost access to water. They helped ensure the uninterrupted flow of safe water for impacted communities, deployed emergency water treatment systems from their Haiti warehouse and North Charleston headquarters, and sent Water Mission engineers to help repair municipal 
   water systems.  

3. During the February 2021 arctic freeze across the state of Texas, teams restored safe water access by mobilizing skilled plumbers and providing urgently needed supplies due to water shortages and widespread power outages. 

Thanks to our incredible Tommy’s Express guests, we have positively impacted over 9,100 lives with Water Mission. That number continues to grow with each wash. 

Water conservation and Water Mission

Water Mission’s mission is to honor God by developing, implementing, and sharing best-in-class safe water solutions that transform as many lives as possible as quickly as possible.  

This pairs closely with our goal to be a sustainable car wash. 

At every Tommy’s Express location, our advanced water reclamation technology safely cleans vehicles with less than 30 gallons of fresh water per car.  

Other car washes on average, use 40+ gallons per wash, and usually, the water is not repurposed or contained, causing runoff into storm drains and natural waterways. 

Each Tommy’s Express is purposefully designed with high-efficiency water-saving equipment.  
 
We engineer our buildings to dispose of used water in a responsible manner. Everything from booster pumps and specialized nozzles to water reclamation tanks and precise detergent dilution rates contribute to a green car wash. 

About Water Mission

Water Mission is a nonprofit Christian engineering organization that designs, builds, and implements safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) solutions for people in developing countries and disaster areas.  
 
Since 2001, Water Mission has used innovative technology and engineering expertise to provide access to safe water for more than 7 million people in 57 countries.  
 
Water Mission has over 400 staff members working in its headquarters and around the world in permanent country programs located in Africa, Asia, North, South and Central America, and the Caribbean.

Notably, Charity Navigator has awarded Water Mission its top four-star rating 15 years in a row, a distinction shared by only 1% of the charities rated by the organization.   

Making a difference with every green car wash

When we know better, we do better. And we can all make a difference today. 

Water Mission is a nonprofit that saw a need, had the skills, and adapted to help.  

Their website shares an impactful World Health Organization (WHO) stat: Every $1 invested in safe water yields $6.80 in economic return.

Solving the global water crisis won’t happen overnight.  
 
But step by step, wash by wash, we can make a difference.

You directly impact the global efforts every time you visit a Tommy’s Express.  
 
Thank you for washing with us.  

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Hortencia Perez, a single mother of six in the small community of El Encanto, Mexico, used to get water for herself and her family from a shallow well in her yard. This water used to make them sick, and it used to cost her more than she could afford to buy clean water from other sources.  

But thanks to you, me, and Water Mission, this isn’t the case anymore! 

What is Water Mission? 

Water Mission is an organization that builds sustainable clean water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions in developing nations and areas ravaged by natural or man-made disasters.  

Based in South Carolina, Water Mission is 100% nonprofit and committed to the values of love, excellence, and integrity as they pursue their mission.

How big is the problem?  

Without clean water, you can’t live a safe or productive life.  

Take a minute and think about how much water you’ve used today. I showered, brushed my teeth, ran the dishwasher, had a tall, ice-cold glass of filtered water with lunch, and I have some flowers to water and clothes to wash when I get home.  

Now think about how different your life and my life would be if there were a chance that any of that water could hurt or kill you, me, or the people we love.

Think about how much time and energy it would take to boil all the water we use every day and how much it would cost to buy and ration bottled water instead.  

I can’t fathom it. 

And today, in 2021, over 2 billion people lack access to safe water. That’s about 1 in every 3 human beings who face an increased likelihood of illness and premature death from waterborne diseases and parasites.

That means massive amounts of time and energy are needed to source water. This led to reduced productivity in terms of education and work, and even permanently disrupted normal childhood development, depending on the type of contamination they’re drinking. 

And when these effects are compounded by disasters like storms, wars, and droughts, things only worsen for those caught in the middle.  

What sets Water Mission apart? 

This is where Water Mission comes in. Instead of just delivering truckloads of water or digging a deeper well and walking away, Water Mission works with local support to come up with lasting, sustainable, and affordable solutions for bringing clean water to those who have never had it before and to keep those solutions running despite wear and tear. 

Take our friend Hortencia, who writes, “This clean water helps keep us healthy and helps our budget because the water is very affordable… I go to the Water Mission meetings and support the water project. I am trying to do all I can to help Water Mission because it is good what they are doing.” 

What about in the United States? 

Do you recall February 2021? “Historic” winter storms swept through Texas and pushed the energy system to the brink of failure. Thousands upon thousands of homes and businesses experienced plumbing catastrophes as water pipes froze and burst as power and heat went out.  

It just shows that even here in the US, extreme conditions can leave any of us or our friends and neighbors in situations where the clean water we all take for granted suddenly becomes a critical issue.  

Amid this disaster, Water Mission was on the ground, ready to help. According to their publications, Water Mission began working immediately with Plumbers Without Borders, the Austin Disaster Relief Network, and corporate partners to get skilled labor and plumbing supplies to where they were needed most, especially when it came to residents who were elderly, disabled, uninsured, or underinsured.

How can we help support Water Mission together? 

If you wash your vehicle at Tommy’s Express Car Wash, you already are! 

Each time a car rolls down the belt at any Tommy’s Express facility nationwide, a portion of the proceeds are automatically contributed to Water Mission, directly supporting their work and ministry related to clean water and sanitation worldwide. 

Of course, if you would like to do more, you would be more than welcome to contribute to Water Mission on your own by visiting their website.

Safe, clean water is unbelievably precious, and with the right innovation, engineering, and passion at work, I’m happy to say that Tommy’s Express and each and every one of our fans and supporters (that means you!) are all helping to make clean water more and more accessible every day.  

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For those of us in the US, it’s hard to imagine traveling hours every day to collect clean safe water for you and your family. And it’s impossible to really understand the devastation caused by water-borne diseases, drought, or prolonged thirst.

This is why Tommy’s Express is so pleased to announce total contributions of over $13,500 to Water Mission in 2018.

Every Tommy’s Express location has a water reclamation system that allows us to use less than 25 gallons of fresh water per car at all sites. When you, our customers, come for a wash we take a portion of these savings and donate water saved. In other words, for every car washed at a Tommy’s Express location we make a donation to Water Mission on behalf of our customers.

One common figure is that it costs around $30 to provide one person with clean water for life when invested in long-term clean water solutions. Thanks to Tommy’s Express customers, this means that over 450 individuals around the world will receive lifelong clean drinking water in addition to over a thousand others aided since we first launched our Water Mission partnership several years ago.

This is an amazing impact, and one we are proud to share with our customers.

Tommy’s Express invites you and others to consider supporting the work of Water Mission as they continuously provide stable clean water resources for communities across the globe. As our business continues to grow with new car washes opening across the United States we look forward to seeing these contributions yield a greater and larger impact each year.

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At Tommy’s Express, every visit supports clean water solutions around the world.

In 1998 George and Molly Greene were operating an environmental engineering company in the United States when they received a desperate request. People in Honduras, which had been impacted heavily by Hurricane Mitch, were in desperate need of a renewable source of clean water.

Unable to find a water treatment system that met the critical needs expressed in those communities, they and their engineers undertook to design, build, and implement their own systems—and to save lives in doing so.

This was the beginning of the international nonprofit organization Water Mission, a group of talented and passionate individuals working to not only install water systems where needed around the world, but to understand the growing global water crisis and its solutions. From its earliest days the Water Mission began to implement refined water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions that keep working, reduce costs for those using them, and which evolve along with the needs of the communities being served.

Today Water Mission has expanded considerably in their field, serving more than 50 countries around the world and providing safe, potable water to over three million individuals to date with an emphasis on solar power, research studies, and community and government partnership.

Tommy’s Express Car Wash is proud to support this vital mission, and to this end, a portion of each car wash at every one of our facilities goes directly to supporting the work and ministry of Water Mission. Water is precious, and with the right innovation, engineering, and passion, we can all make sure that our limited supply of clean water is used wisely and used well.

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