Agua Vida 2025 campaign is here!
Help us transform lives
with the gift of rain at home.
This year, through Agua Vida, we invite you to join the Walk for Water—an act of solidarity with families in Mexico who still spend hours every week searching, hauling, or waiting for water. For them, “the walk” is not exercise or leisure—it is an exhausting burden that limits education, health, work, and joy.
Why “The Walk” Matters?
In the communities where we work, families walk up to 15,000 steps to fetch water—and another 15,000 steps back, carrying 5 gallons on their backs. On a fitness tracker, 30,000 steps in a day is considered “elite athlete” activity.
- Women and girls spend an estimated 250 million hours every day collecting water. UNICEF/WHO Joint Monitoring Programme.
- 12,000,000 people in Mexico lack access to clean water. UNAM, 2025.
- Only 14% of households in Mexico receive water 24 hours a day. AGUA UNAM & IMTA, 2022.
- In rural and peri-urban areas, women and children often walk long distances to fetch water from unsafe or unreliable sources. WHO/UNICEF, 2023.
Help us transform lives
This year, through Agua Vida, we invite you to join the Walk for Water—an act of solidarity with families in Mexico who still spend hours every week searching, hauling, or waiting for water. For them, “the walk” is not exercise or leisure—it is an exhausting burden that limits education, health, work, and joy.
Why “The Walk” Matters?
In the communities where we work, families walk up to 15,000 steps to fetch water—and another 15,000 steps back, carrying 5 gallons on their backs. On a fitness tracker, 30,000 steps in a day is considered “elite athlete” activity.
- Women and girls spend an estimated 250 million hours every day collecting water. UNICEF/WHO Joint Monitoring Programme.
- 12,000,000 people in Mexico lack access to clean water. UNAM, 2025.
- Only 14% of households in Mexico receive water 24 hours a day. AGUA UNAM & IMTA, 2022.
- In rural and peri-urban areas, women and children often walk long distances to fetch water from unsafe or unreliable sources. WHO/UNICEF, 2023.
Rainwater harvesting changes this reality. Each system provides families with up to 12 months of clean water, eliminating hours of daily water-fetching and freeing time for education, work, and play. A rainwater system provides one family with a safe rainwater source at home, indefinitely.
Rainwater harvesting changes this reality. Each system provides families with up to 12 months of clean water, eliminating hours of daily water-fetching and freeing time for education, work, and play. A rainwater system provides one family with a safe rainwater source at home, indefinitely.
We aim to raise $30,000 to install 18 rainwater harvesting systems, providing 158,000 gallons of clean water for 120 individuals, families in Mexico who currently spend hours every week searching, hauling, or waiting for water.
Isla Urbana’s rainwater harvesting systems are sustainable, affordable, and transformative. By collecting and purifying rain directly from rooftops, families gain immediate access to clean water, right at home, indefinitely. Each system can supply up to 80% of a household’s annual water needs, reducing physical strain, financial stress, and health risks.
We aim to raise $30,000 to install 18 rainwater harvesting systems, providing 158,000 gallons of clean water for 120 individuals, families in Mexico who currently spend hours every week searching, hauling, or waiting for water.
Isla Urbana’s rainwater harvesting systems are sustainable, affordable, and transformative. By collecting and purifying rain directly from rooftops, families gain immediate access to clean water, right at home, indefinitely. Each system can supply up to 80% of a household’s annual water needs, reducing physical strain, financial stress, and health risks.
How You Can Join the Walk for Water?
1. Donate directly and invite friends to support the campaign. Click on Gift Rain.
2. Host your own Agua Vida 2025 event! Dance, walk, or gather your community to raise funds.
3. Join our Givebutter fundraising team, get your personalized link, and walk with us virtually. Our top fundraisers will receive a special gift from the communities supported.
4. Celebrate the rain online! Post photos or videos of your own “walk for water”—whether under the rain, with your friends, or simply showing what rain means to you. Follow and tag @islaurbanausa and use #AguaVida #RainForAll #Rainmakers.
5. Run for rain! Join our Agua Vida Strava Club www.strava.com/clubs/aguavida_islaurbana, log your miles, and fundraise, top runner wins a prize!
Contact us for more info: requests@islaurbana.org
How You Can Join the Walk for Water?
1. Donate directly and invite friends to support the campaign. Click on Gift Rain.
2. Host your own Agua Vida 2025 event! Dance, walk, or gather your community to raise funds.
3. Join our Givebutter fundraising team, get your personalized link, and walk with us virtually. Our top fundraisers will receive a special gift from the communities supported.
4. Celebrate the rain online! Post photos or videos of your own “walk for water”—whether under the rain, with your friends, or simply showing what rain means to you. Follow and tag @islaurbanausa and use #AguaVida #RainForAll #Rainmakers.
5. Run for rain!
Join our Agua Vida Strava Club www.strava.com/clubs/aguavida_islaurbana, log your miles, and fundraise, top runner wins a prize!
Contact us for more info: requests@islaurbana.org
Let’s Celebrate the Rain!
Agua Vida is more than a fundraiser—it’s a celebration of life, rain, and community. By walking together, we honor the resilience of families in Mexico and help ensure that no one has to waste hours every week for water.
Join the movement. Give the gift of rain.
Together, we can end the walk for water and bring #RainForAll.
Let’s Celebrate the Rain!
Agua Vida is more than a fundraiser—it’s a celebration of life, rain, and community. By walking together, we honor the resilience of families in Mexico and help ensure that no one has to waste hours every week for water.
Join the movement. Give the gift of rain.
Together, we can end the walk for water and bring #RainForAll.
Are you ready to join us in fundraising to provide a sustainable,
life-changing impact for +120 people?
Agua Vida 2025 ends December 7th, 2025!
Please help us reach our 30K goal!
Are you ready to join us in fundraising to provide a sustainable, life-changing impact for +120 people?
Agua Vida 2025 ends
December 7th, 2025!
Please help us reach
our 30K goal!
All donations are tax-deductible in the US, and all fundraisers, donors, and sponsors will receive updates on how their dollars were used, including pictures and details of the work. See the full impact of Agua Vida 2024 here: Agua Vida 2024 Report
We want to thank YOU, our incredible sponsors and donors—you are an irreplaceable help! A big shoutout to all the campaign event organizers and all our student Chapters. And let’s not forget our rockstar team of volunteers, entertainment, and campaign participants.We thank you for your presence!
About Isla Urbana
Isla Urbana USA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to supporting clean and sustainable rainwater harvesting projects in Mexico, while building a network of young leaders and advocates in the United States. Working alongside Isla Urbana Mexico — a team of engineers, educators, and community organizers — Isla Urbana USA builds a bridge between U.S. donors and the communities most impacted by water scarcity in Mexico.
Learn more at islaurbana.org/en/ or contact us at requests@islaurbana.org
