July 29, 2019
By Benyamin Cohen
As with most things in life, it all started with a Google search. (click here)
Armstrong Williams, a Michigan-based businessman and owner of a local NBC affiliate, was on a trip in Washington, D.C. He had just attended an event at the Israeli embassy and was sifting through the gift bag. Inside, he saw a blue bottle with a Watergen logo on it.
Being from Flint, a city that's been dealing with a contaminated water crisis since 2014, the 57-year-old Williams was intrigued. He started googling "Watergen" as he was leaving the event. What he discovered was that the Israeli-founded company had invented a device that makes clean drinking water out of thin air. This is how the technology works:
Thankfully, Williams looked up from his phone to briefly contemplate what he had just learned. In that moment, on display outside the embassy was an actual Watergen machine.
"I knew exactly what it looked like, because I started doing research on it on my phone," Williams recalled to From The Grapevine. "I walked up and there was this guy with a beard and he invited me to taste the water. What he didn't realize was I'd just been looking for something to support Flint that would be a game changer. It was a spiritual moment."
Williams' discussion with Yehuda Kaploun, the president of Watergen USA, on that fateful day in May is already bearing fruit. Williams, who is also a nationally syndicated TV and radio host, donated $75,000 to have a Watergen machine shipped to Flint for the local community to use. "You've taken people who've had hopelessness that the solution would be resolved and given them hope with a very practical solution," Kaploun said....
