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About Us
Our mission is to help people around the world when they need it most. Social responsibility is our core business. We accomplish this by creating and delivering sustainable drinking water technologies
and systems to people who are in need of drinking water due to catastrophic events.
Such events often lead to inadequate access to potable water, prompting people to use water sources contaminated with disease, pathogens and/or unacceptable levels of dissolved chemicals or suspended solids. Contaminated water use can then lead to
 widespread acute and chronic illness, and is a major cause of death in many countries.
Utilization of the EWR solar-powered water filtration systems transmutes fouled
water into potable water. Our sustainable filtering systems make potable water
possible in remote areas without functioning infrastructure, as well as in urban
areas where infrastructure has been temporarily damaged or disrupted.
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EWR’s commitment to sustainability puts social responsibility at the core of our business model. Our non-negotiable commitment to this principal guides all of our efforts in providing potable drinking water to people in need.
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EWR has attracted pioneers in key industries to help guide our work.
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Board of Directors
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Damon Danielson, Founder and Chairman of the Board
Mr. Danielson is a Silicon Valley technology entrepreneur who believes that
practically focused technology – when blended with creative organizational and
business strategies and the best of public and private economic models – can
help to lift the lives of those in need. He is a private investor, start-up
catalyst, board member and advisor to ZERO Motorcycles (an all-electric
motorcycle company, based in Santa Cruz, California; Mr. Danielson was their
start-up CEO.), EmergencyWaterRelief.org, Arrange.cc, GenJuice.com, R2B.com,
Online Video Service (OVS), and other technology ventures. Mr. Danielson is a
recognized leader in the green transportation, web content, enterprise software
and specialty retail/consumer branding sectors and has a successful track record
of creating, funding and managing innovative technology companies. He also has
served as a corporate VP of business development for Sony.
Mr. Danielson holds a masters degree in Public and Private Management from the
Yale School of Management, and is also a graduate of the University of
Minnesota. Former president of the Yale School of Management’s Alumni
Association Board of Directors, Mr. Danielson has served on the Yale School of
Management Advisory Board, serves on the California Governor’s Innovation Hub
(iHub) Initiative committee, and is a significant contributor and advisor to the
non-profit Nicaragua College Fund. He has been active in the Monterey Bay
surfing community as a supporter of cleaner and safer oceans and is the author
of “7 Laws of Surfing,” available at Amazon.com.
Joel Goldstein – Founder, CEO, Board Member
Mr. Goldstein is a long-term advocate for sustainability issues as well as being
recognized as a category expert in commercial and residential green building. A
known leader in the sustainable Merchant Building environment, Mr. Goldstein was
the founder and president of JGMC, a full-service advertising and marketing agency,
based in California with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
JGMC has served dozens of Fortune 500 international clients. Agency strategic and creative
responsibilities included developing strategies and tactics to maximize
each corporation's environmental practices. Mr. Goldstein and JGMC have received
awards of excellence from leading industry associates, including DIFFA, NAHB, NHRA and the NKBA
for their work in Strategy Development, Product Development and Community
Service. JGMC was the only advertising agency to ever receive the County of Los
Angeles prestigious Civilian Award in recognition of its work for the Los
Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the creation of the most successful
recruitment strategy and recruitment campaign in department history.
Mr. Goldstein attended the University of Chicago and holds an MBA.
Matt Eldridge, MBA, EVP of Partnerships, Board Member
Mr. Eldridge brings nearly 20 years of strategy, operations and senior management experience in mission-driven, nonprofit and private sector organizations, with assignments in the U.S., Europe and Africa. He is currently President and Co-founder of Online Video Service, a leading provider of transparency solutions to U.S. federal and state agencies. Under his leadership, the company expanded from Seattle to Washington, D.C., Europe, South Asia and China.
In addition to Mr. Eldridge's role with Emergency Water Relief, he also advises a content delivery network and a constituent management platform. His expertise includes online content, streaming media and enterprise software. His international experience includes living and working in Berlin, Prague, South Africa and Amsterdam. Past positions include COO at a U.S. health care reform organization, SVP at a regional public affairs group, Senior Associate at a top U.S. West Coast management consulting firm and Southern Africa consultant to a global nongovernmental organization, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.
Mr. Eldridge earned a MBA from the Yale School of Management, a MA from the University of Cape Town as a Rotary Scholar, and a BA with Honors from Stanford University. He has served on various boards, such as the Yale School of Management Alumni Association and Group Health Credit Union.
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Advisory Board* |
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Paul R. Ehrlich, Ph.D., Advisory Chair
Dr. Ehrlich is the Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University and president of the Center for Conservation Biology, based there. He received his doctorate from the University of Kansas. Co-founder (with Peter H. Raven of the Missouri Botanical Garden) of the field of co-evolution, Dr. Ehrlich has pursued long-term studies of the structure, dynamics and genetics of natural butterfly populations. He is also well known as a pioneer in alerting the public to the problems of overpopulation, and in raising issues pertaining to population, available resources and the environment as matters of public policy. A special interest of Dr. Ehrlich’s is cultural evolution, especially with respect to environmental ethics.
Steve Brauneis, LEED AP, CNU-A, Advisory Board Member
Mr. Brauneis is a senior consultant with the Rocky Mountain Institute working on sustainable design and construction strategies for numerous building types, from large-scale commercial and residential developments to single-family homes. As head of RMI’s LEED Review Team, Mr. Brauneis has evaluated hundreds of buildings across the United States. He is a popular speaker for sustainable builder and sustainable designer groups throughout the U.S. and regularly leads charrettes for single- and multi-building projects. His corporate sustainability efforts have included input evaluation, retail product offering analysis, vehicle specification and use evaluation, energy, fuels, lighting, solid waste and building operations assessments. Mr. Brauneis is a member of the USGBC LEED Materials and Resources’ Technical Advisory Group, as well as a Louisville, Colorado, Planning Commissioner.
Teri Redman, MBA, Advisory Board Member
Ms. Redman is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and received her MBA from UCLA. She was in the first Berkley class to graduate and receive a BA in Biology with a concentration in ecology. She is an experienced teacher of the life sciences and emerging environmental studies. Ms. Redman has been responsible for creating a series of important environmental studies programs that extended out from the academic environment to local and International communities. Her commitment to environmental literacy and environmental activism has had a profound impact on the lives of students, their families and the communities in which we live.
Ms. Redman supervises a pilot Environmental Community Service program she has created for independent high schools. She has also worked closely with the Union of Concerned Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Tree People and Friends of the Los Angeles River, to develop and produce community-based events, including: environmental programs and knowledge workshops, community fund raising activities, volunteer environmental task forces, and grassroots citizen environmental projects.
*The EWR.org Advisory Board is an all volunteer board serving without
compensation.
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