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A new water charity commercial starring actress Jennifer Connelly has hit television stations across the US in a bid to show Americans what those less fortunate must face everyday.

In the short, Connelly is filmed leaving her New York apartment with her two kids and leading others to gather water from a stagnant pond in Central Park. She then serves that same dirty water to her boy and girl with the screen fading to black and showing the following text: ‘Imagine drinking this. 1.1 billion people don’t have access to safe drinking water.’ From the article,

“‘We wanted to bring the harsh reality we saw in Africa home to our friends,’ explained advert creator Nigel Lythgoe. ‘The reality that millions of women and children walk miles each day to collect murky green water from swamps. Water that kills kids. We wanted to help put an end to it.’”

All of the money raised will go towards CharityWater. According to their site, for only $20, you can give a person the ability to drink clean water for 20 years. For more info, jump here. The video is below.