Water Bonds partnered with Grace House on the Mountain, a nonprofit organization based in Wise County, Virginia, to address water poverty in the Appalachian region of Virginia. The organization is owned and operated by the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Virginia, and they support families with essential services such as water, electricity, and medicine.

Together with Grace House on the Mountain, the Water Bonds project supplies water filtering dispensers and replacement filters to families in the Appalachian region of V.A.—a region impacted by poor water quality. According to a study published in 2022 focused on Wise County, residents majorly rely on well water, bottled water, and roadside springs, and they are often exposed to heavy metals in their water. Additionally, the US Census and US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) recently identified the Appalachian region with one of the highest rates of water utility violations and numbers of households without complete plumbing in the U.S..

Water poverty is closer to the greater D.C. area than we may realize. For that reason, the Water Bonds project concentrates on the Virginia Appalachia to support residents and nurture gratitude for the simple necessities in the D.C. area.