Severe Tropical Storm Odette entered the Philippine area of responsibility on Dec. 14, 2021 and shortly intensified into a category 5 super typhoon across the Visayas and Mindanao. In just 28 hours, Odette (Rai) left over 8.8 million people affected, nine million displaced and 36 million homes damaged or destroyed. With the water supply infrastructure damaged and essential health services crippled and worsened by the pandemic, access to clean water became an immediate need to prevent the spread of waterborne diseases and life-threatening dehydration.

Waves for Water deploys water filtration systems. (2022, February 19). The Philippine Star, p. 3.