I'm really pleased we'll be supporting Frank Water this year. Frank Water is a Bristol based company that was started in 2005 after it's founder got the squits on a trip to India. Essentially they are an ethical bottled water company who produce bottled water here in the UK (as well as commercial water coolers) and then use 100% of the profits to fund sustainable water projects in India, currently benefiting over 48,000 people. The projects themselves involve building water filtration plants that employs UV filter technology to purify local water supplies. This is then sold to the local population at a nominal fee that ensures the continuing service of the facility as well as providing jobs for the community. If you think that your average person needs about three litres of fluid a day to live and every litre of Frank Water you buy pays for 200 litres of water from a purification facility; everytime you get your 3 litres from Frank you supply 200 people with their daily fluid requirement without having to play russian roulette with their health or that of their families. It's all pretty impressive. More so than when I went to India last year and got the squits, unless bitching, moaning and crapping yourself somehow benefits the world. Of course, I realise this week it's not acceptable to buy bottled water because of the 'carbon footprint' caused by transporting them around and the process of making the plastic bottles. Some genius has even managed to make this all even more poignant buy translating this fictional debt into litres of water consumed. I suppose these retarded eco-hippies are under the impression that the paleolithic ice age was brought to an abrupt halt by Homo habilis taking to many long haul flights. Check out this blog and disembark the global warming band wagon.

Send a Cow was founded in 1988 by a group of farmers from the West Country and has been an established Mongol Rally charity for quite a while. The idea is; rather than send food and milk to under-developed regions, they send livestock as a sustainable food source. It's a 'give a man a fish bla, bla, but give him a net' kind of a thing. What's really nice is that when families are gifted livestock (be it cows, goats or in some cases rats) they're also given help and instruction on how to get the most out of their animals and as part of the deal; when their animals reproduce they then give the offspring to other members of the community who then receive the same training and so on and so forth. As if that wasn't enough, Send a Cow have given us quite a cool mooing stuffed cow to take with us. I call her Bernadette.