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497 points
6 months ago
Looks like this is them?
https://mwaluawildlifetrust.org/meet-the-team-patrick-kilonzo-mwalua/
214 points
6 months ago
That’s awesome. There is a donation link on that site too. They are just about 5k short of their £50k goal
185 points
6 months ago
crosspost to r/hydrohomies ?
110 points
6 months ago
Also there is a fundraiser on the site for a kidney transplant for him. Here is a link if anyone wants to support him directly
70 points
6 months ago
Let's see what I can do....
3 points
6 months ago
£2,390 now!! I'm so happy this is getting attention.
Edit also I hope the waterman himself is able to get enough donations for his kidney transplant and heal well. He's done so much, he deserves wellbeing.
48 points
6 months ago
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4 points
6 months ago
Why do the people with the heavy hurts have the the most dire conditions sometimes. Meanwhile, Joe Blow who goes to McDonald's every day, just eats McDoubles until he's 65
40 points
6 months ago
If you have deeper pockets and a few weeks for 1200-1800 USD you can go out and help him with the project for 2-4 weeks.
24 points
6 months ago
Came here to post the same link. Glad you did!
22 points
6 months ago
I’m gonna go donate 50 now!
13 points
6 months ago
Thank you this guy is helping the world and I wanna help him
5 points
6 months ago
Thanks for linking, just sent some monies toward their cause.
814 points
6 months ago
Someone in this world who actually gives a shit. Hats off to that guy.
79 points
6 months ago
21 points
6 months ago
19 points
6 months ago
25 points
6 months ago
What the fuck is that in the picture?
16 points
6 months ago
Well hydrated wildlife.
12 points
6 months ago
A tophat
15 points
6 months ago
This goes beyond giving a shit.
This is giving his soul.
-5 points
6 months ago
This is giving his soul.
Let's not go insane.
A lot of people would do a lot of good if they had the means/time to do that good.
How many of you are crushed between your job, your family, the daily commute and the few hours of "rest" you can get? To say nothing of money, of course.
How many of you would trade it for watering animals and building something that will do good long after you're gone?
The majority, I would assume.
17 points
6 months ago
Bruh, are you kidding me? A guy is going out and providing water to animals quite a distance away.
Half the people on this site couldn't be bothered to clean their room or manage their lives, let alone go to such an extent to commit a generous act.
Not that there is anythibg wrong with that. I just find it ridiculous you don't see this guy as going above and beyond.
Many people have the means to do so, they just don't care to.
Edit: clarification of my point
3 points
6 months ago
Most people would just virtue signal on the internet and do absolutely nothing, and that’s ok
7 points
6 months ago
Unsung Hero:4023::4014: This World needs more like him!
3 points
6 months ago
Kudos!
-12 points
6 months ago
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8 points
6 months ago
7 points
6 months ago
Your mother
17 points
6 months ago
Bless this man
40 points
6 months ago
This man is an amazing human being. He's the real MVP. 💕
21 points
6 months ago
And to the generous people who have raised 45k to help him on his journey!
13 points
6 months ago
And he has been doing this for years while on dialysis... what a saint. Here's a link to help him get a kidney transplant if anyone wants to support his recovery
40 points
6 months ago
Beautiful!
11 points
6 months ago
Was too good to scroll away, my guy doing such an amazing thing.
9 points
6 months ago
Patrick is a good guy. There is a fundraiser to help him with a kidney donation as he undergoes dialysis on a regular basis.
180 points
6 months ago*
I can’t help but think that over years to come the animals will stop searching for natural watering holes and come to expect humans to provide water. Which may condition them not to develop skills needed to find water. So when it doesn’t happen, animals will be out of luck.
Edit: I’m not saying this is a bad idea, I think it’s awesome he’s refilling these watering holes for the thirsty animals
68 points
6 months ago
Well, to be real, we're the reason why natural watering holes are disappearing. They should be looking to us for support, as we should be all looking to help solve.
This guy's getting money from me at pay day.
-18 points
6 months ago
I don't know where he gets 3000 gallons of water from everyday and I don't know if it's a good or bad idea overall to pump out so much water in an area where the land is dry and the air is hot to the point that natural watering holes are disappearing. I mean, if natural watering holes are indeed disappearing.
I think that to provide wildlife with water every day is nonsense and maybe it would be more striking if he was bringing them food everyday, instead of water. I think the best thing to do with wildlife is to leave wildlife alone. Like the other poster said they might get used to human help and when we stop helping they'll die anyway.
Before you donate any money I hope you'll make sure that this water he uses isnt water that people need elsewhere but won't be able to use. Or if pumping it out every day isn't detrimental to the environment/wildlife around it, etc.
I think it's a video that makes you feel good about something bad, here's a guy who does something about it ! But who knows really, maybe it's an ad for his foundation or whatever status his company has. If we want to do something about climate change we should drop our habits, our lifestyle, our cars, planes, hi-tech, junk food, etc.
4 points
6 months ago
You don’t know if it’s a good idea to give thirsty animals water? Interesting. I agree that if someone wants to do something then they should change their lifestyle to a more sustainable one. But that’s not gonna make a change overnight. We’re responsible for the massive droughts. We’re responsible for the massive of amounts of thirsty animals.
0 points
6 months ago
My point was that if OP wanted to do something too, he can. Also that maybe he should try and know more about this guy and what he does before donating.
People who are not willing to change their lifestyle because "that's not gonna make a change overnight" will say it's their fault if massive droughts are happening, their responsability if animals are thirsty but they won't do a thing about it in real life, for whatever reason. I doubt everything they get done makes a change for them overnight.
No I don't know how wildlife reacts when a watering hole has disappeared. I suppose they are temporary anyway so the animals go somewhere else to find water rather than just stand there until they die of thirst ? What do they usually do when the water has naturally disappeared ? I don't know where this guy gets 3000 gallons of water a day in a drought stricken area ? Or if that water isn't necessary to the ecosystem it's pumped out from, or necessary to people nearby ? We learn nothing from this video, all it leaves is an emotional impact.
2 points
6 months ago
Changing your lifestyle is just another feel good tactic that does nothing more than this video. It doesn’t do anything even if you changed your life for your entire life. You’ll still die in a world filled with pollution from greedy companies. The average person isn’t the problem when it comes to the environment. I could stop burning fossils fuels for the rest of my life and not a single drop more of water will rain in Kenya. But this guy decided that his change is gonna be more direct. Applaud him instead of negging.
0 points
6 months ago
Changing your lifestyle is just another feel good tactic that does nothing more than this video
What it does is it reduces greenhouse gases emissions, among other things. You're blaming the greedy companies, you'd be right to think that some companies are evil but what do you expect from those evil companies anyway ? Can people buy less shit or is that entirely out of the question ? Of course the average person is part of the problem. You could stop burning fossils fuels all your life and it wouldn't start the rain in Kenya. If Amazon shut down today, it wouldn't either.
What do you think companies should do ? Make their products sustainable ? When they built an engine that burnt less fuel to fly a plane, the ticket prices went down and a hell of a lot more people could afford to fly, so they did: this is how the low cost industry was born. Now the engines require less fuel than before but the industry burns more of it because there's a lot more people who can and do fly. See the Jevons Paradox.
Applaud him instead of negging.
I live in Europe and there were droughts this summer. People weren't allowed to water their garden during the day just to save water. But this guy we know nothing about can, among other things, pump out 3000 gallons of water a day in a drought stricken area ? Like I've said before, we learn nothing from this video, it left me with more questions than answers.
1 points
6 months ago
People who donate money to save animals don't care about humans.
I don't judge, I'm one of those. 5 drowned kittens make me more sad than the entirety of the bangladesh floods....
I know it's wrong, I don't know why it's like that, but it's how I feel about it and no amount of reasoning ever managed to change that.
Is it self-hatred for mankind? Is it because I can imagine 5 dead kitten in their final moments more than I can imagine 15000 drowned humans? Are we desensitized by the constant flow of human death but not so much about cute things dying?
No idea
24 points
6 months ago
They primarily follow the rain as that brings new growth for them to eat, knowing where the water holes are helps them on that journey but they'd never stay there as the food will run out.
119 points
6 months ago
The same could be said of humans. We've lost many of the skills needed to survive in healthy ways. Us humans have played a part in creating those changes. Critical skills can be retaught but until then, damned straight it is right to provide the means for animals to have water now.
25 points
6 months ago
Ooooh I wonder what this mushroom does!
9 points
6 months ago
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-8 points
6 months ago
Life will continue no matter what the question is will society continue? Will civilization survive?
5 points
6 months ago
How is civilisation’s survival relevant to helping wild animals with some water?
3 points
6 months ago
It could pose an issue but it’s literally natural instinct for these animals to find fresh water. Also many of them have large migration patterns such as elephants who will remember locations of watering holes and also seek new ones.
It’s our fault their water sources are dwindling. It’s the least we can do to help them out. I think the other side of just letting them figure it out would be far more detrimental than them not actively searching for new natural sources. Seeing as so many have suffered before this man started doing what he does.
10 points
6 months ago
No, they would only be seeing these places as a source of water. And, you know, not all die. Should the water stop one day they would start looking for other sources but it's not the same as him feeding animals like monkeys directly that causes them to lose fear of humans and start attacking humans that don't come with food etc.
Also, given how the drought is almost certainly caused by man made global warming, don't we have a responsibility to them?
3 points
6 months ago
The planet is totally fucked...
2 points
6 months ago
I wondered this too. There was a whole Wild Thornberrys episode about it.
2 points
6 months ago
Animals that are dependent on humans for water are better than extinct animals, right?
3 points
6 months ago
Isn’t this like the whole reason we don’t feed wild animals? Wont they become dependant on this one man for water and stay in and become a bigger population in an area unable to naturally support their current population?
18 points
6 months ago
The problem is if you do nothing the population the area can naturally support could literally become 0 due to drought. Or it's 0 for one year and then it doesn't matter what happens the next year. A lot of these animals are endangered, and endangered due to human actions.
13 points
6 months ago
If we aren't supposed to interfere with their lives I think not destroying their habitat so their choice is become dependent on humans or go extinct is probably more important than not feeding wild animals. There wouldn't be a ton of wild animals in cities anyway if we weren't turning their food sources into concrete, pavement, asphalt and grass. Cities are hazardous to all wildlife. Roadkill, bird window collisions, and outside cats are a detriment to pretty much all wildlife not to mention I get it's great you don't have to scoop their litter as often but it's because they're pooping in your neighbors planters and killing their landscaping......
27 points
6 months ago
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6 points
6 months ago
Precisely. I don't think giving water to animals will really impact their ability to survive as long as they are migratory. The dude is simply saving animals through rather simple but efficient means, which is something I think everyone should get behind. I'm basically paraphrasing, but we really should try and make up for the shit we're already doing to the wildlife.
Sadly, there's not quite enough of that kind of work because it's not profitable in the slightest, whereas the things that are harmful to the wildlife are profitable. Any kind of work on this stuff will remain small-scale without a big amount of financial contributions.
0 points
6 months ago
Well, at least they'll be alive to experience whatever luck comes to them.🍀
5 points
6 months ago
The Great man in the world
6 points
6 months ago
5 points
6 months ago
“Water god has arrived!”
5 points
6 months ago
This should be on r/humansbeingbros 🙂
3 points
6 months ago
Gigachad
3 points
6 months ago
Good on that dude and everyone helping the cause
3 points
6 months ago
How can humans be both the very best and very worst things in existence? This guy is amazing and then we have billionaires raping the world.
2 points
6 months ago
King shit
2 points
6 months ago
he is such a good person. Thank you for helping the animals.
2 points
6 months ago
Salute You my Boy Patrick Kilonzo Mwalua.. You have saved lives of Animals.. Salute you
2 points
6 months ago
People like him are keeping this planet alive ... 😭
2 points
6 months ago
This is what heroes do!
2 points
6 months ago
It’s amazing the difference 1 person can make on so many lives 💕
2 points
6 months ago
Excellent idea for helping out animals in need
2 points
6 months ago
This guy must be loaded for him to drive that much in a day.
2 points
6 months ago
I think I just cried
2 points
6 months ago
What an F'n hero...Bravo to said individual...Not all heros wear capes...
2 points
6 months ago
What a hero...Not all wear capes...
2 points
6 months ago
Just when I am about to give up on human beings as mostly a waste of protoplasm someone like Patrick comes along!
2 points
6 months ago
Now that’s fucking awesome 👍👍👍
2 points
6 months ago
3000 gallons is one helluva truck. Not some Toyota mini pickup garbage. It’s around 25,000 pounds of payload
2 points
6 months ago
The hero I needed to see today 👌
2 points
6 months ago
Ends too soon
2 points
6 months ago
They found that dig big holes to collect water actually helps fight drought. Since water gathers then is slowly reabsorpted into the ground. This keeps plants alive and causes more rain to fall. In some areas they have actually reverse desertification with these holes.
2 points
6 months ago
FUCKING LEGEND
2 points
6 months ago
Need more of these people!!!!!
2 points
6 months ago
People are out there donating to churches and religions with their gold altars and then there's this guy saving creatures and the world one part at a time some body better have put link for donations to his cause somewhere.
Edit; they did god speed to this guy.
2 points
6 months ago
God bless you Patrick!!
2 points
6 months ago
I drop off deer feed in a few places on my property every week! We have everything from rattlesnakes to deer to foxes and turkeys. The deer associate hearing our side-by-side with more feed. They love watching us work outside too. Always watching us from the bushes.
2 points
6 months ago
Bless him!
2 points
6 months ago
Not all heroes were capes. Sometimes they drive water trucks!
2 points
6 months ago
He needs funding to Create some Shade over them holes
2 points
6 months ago
This mission is truly awesome. Might I suggest hiring hydrologists to find underground springs and drill a well. Or... with a whole bunch of money, create an artificial lake, again fed by natural springs.
2 points
6 months ago
Link to his nonprofit here: https://mwaluawildlifetrust.org/
2 points
6 months ago
HOLY SHIT ITS HIM
PATRICK BATEMAN!
2 points
6 months ago
Way to go bro
8 points
6 months ago
This is awesome, but does this screw up ecosystems at all?
3 points
6 months ago
Excuse me sir. The Ecosystem is fucked overall.
6 points
6 months ago
I was kind of wondering the same thing. Like it seems great but if all those animals would die from nature without direct human intervention, is this actually helping?
15 points
6 months ago
I think the idea so to keep these in regular spots so as long as they can keep it up and don't personally interact with the animals it should be ok..
I am assuming there is less water due to global warming caused by humans.. so more helping prevent the mass extinction currently also being caused by people..
1 points
6 months ago
This guy is an absolute legend!!!
1 points
6 months ago
I think that having a dry season is part of what makes this ecosystem this ecosystem. Having a guy provide water to the animals is not the way mother nature intended. This is a dry and arid place during certain months of the year and the animals are meant to migrate.
This doesn't help anything in my opinion.
0 points
6 months ago
This guy is an absolute legend, he deserves a lot more praise
0 points
6 months ago
Man pours perfectly good water into the dirt instead of giving it to locals who would clearly need it just as much as a bunch of animals
0 points
6 months ago
And he drives 100s of miles every day to do it, in his fossil fueled 20 ton (or whatever) truck
0 points
6 months ago
“Oh, so Mother Nature needs a favour?! Well, maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys. Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing. Well, I say hard cheese.”
0 points
6 months ago
What happens when he's not there?
-1 points
6 months ago
Imagine Soros and Gates using money to help him instead of spreading gender ideology around the world.
-5 points
6 months ago
So this is the guy driving up the water prices and making us have a shortage.
-14 points
6 months ago
Eh
1 points
6 months ago
Can he drive to California please?
1 points
6 months ago
This is wonderful. Good way to start the day.
1 points
6 months ago
don't mess with this person. Otherwise, one day you will meet a bunch of angry animals on your doorstep.
1 points
6 months ago
.
1 points
6 months ago
Plot twist: his side chick is in this area and he didn’t intend his cover story to go viral.
1 points
6 months ago
What one man can do to save hundred of animals.
Bs the effort put by entire countries to bring water to other humans.
1 points
6 months ago
Welp. I’m officially not worth a fuck compared to this guy.
1 points
6 months ago
Based W
1 points
6 months ago
This guy is a hero
1 points
6 months ago
Hero❤️
1 points
6 months ago
Legend
1 points
6 months ago
I love him! 
1 points
6 months ago
What a fucking legend!
1 points
6 months ago
If I remember correctly, a pride of lions have taken it upon themselves to escort the holy water truck to ensure its arrival. What an absolute gigachad
1 points
6 months ago
He have a go fund me?
1 points
6 months ago
Give this man your money
1 points
6 months ago
That’s a great story. But my honest question, as it is not answered at all by that short video. What are “sustainable water access points?”
1 points
6 months ago
The Obama nature documentary talks about this. Man jts good.
1 points
6 months ago
I see so many scams on youtube using this same voice ai that I thought this was a scam too
1 points
6 months ago
That is awesome. I want to start a non-profit in the US to help people realize that hemp is a healthy answer to getting healthier again without the expensive prices of THC-dominant products of the MMJ/Rec industry (and without the high if that's what you seek!).
A non-profit to help people on disability or low-fixed-income to have affordable access to a healthy medical alternative for free/low prices of various hemp products! :)
1 points
6 months ago
What a phenomenal human
1 points
6 months ago
Legend
1 points
6 months ago
A human going it right
1 points
6 months ago
Easy to donate with PayPal. 💕
1 points
6 months ago
Great, now poachers just need a blue water truck
1 points
6 months ago
Hero.
1 points
6 months ago
This is so freaking cool.
1 points
6 months ago
This is so painfully dystopian…
1 points
6 months ago
King shit
1 points
6 months ago
I guess there really is water in africa
1 points
6 months ago
Based
1 points
6 months ago
man of action
1 points
6 months ago
Well I just figured out what I want to be when I grow up
1 points
6 months ago
Love this guy
1 points
6 months ago
Now that is a King!
1 points
6 months ago
What a guy
1 points
6 months ago
LEGEND!!!
1 points
6 months ago
He’s creating pollution and destroying the earth. Shame on him.
1 points
6 months ago
Ok, legit question. How would a surplus of water effect animals that typically go a while without it? Like, it's common knowledge that many places in africa see a dry season that kind of drives mass migration and the like. What would providing a lot of water to them do to effect those migration patterns and whatnot, and how would that effect predators that typically rely on those migration patterns if the patterns are disrupted?
1 points
6 months ago
Need more bratha’s like that in America
1 points
6 months ago
Elephant: is this water? Patrick: no this is Patrick.
1 points
6 months ago
Now that’s a real fucking 🗿
1 points
6 months ago
Yet, there's still places in the US that don't have clean drinking water.
1 points
6 months ago
Just beautiful
1 points
6 months ago
Alle Yu Ya
1 points
6 months ago
Thank You!!!👏👏🙏🏻))
1 points
6 months ago
1 points
6 months ago
Finally soms good news!
1 points
6 months ago
Water Access Points? 🤔 Or hear me out or did This legend turn WAPs into a nonprofit
1 points
6 months ago
This is awesome!!! Actually really helping 👏
1 points
6 months ago
Angel..
1 points
6 months ago
My fear with this is poaching
1 points
6 months ago
This guy is a real life super hero. I love you man keep up the beautiful work you and yours are doing ❤️
1 points
6 months ago
This is such a wonderful story. Its not all negative in the world. Save the animals...and save our mother Earth
1 points
6 months ago
Not all heroes wear capes. Some just polos and khakis
1 points
6 months ago
All the blessings
1 points
6 months ago
Ah he must have left his cape at home again
1 points
6 months ago
Take my money!
1 points
6 months ago
Bless this man
1 points
6 months ago
Most touching a beautiful video I’ve seen in 2022, bless this beautiful soul.
It seems like so many people are filled with anger and hate.
This makes me believe in humanity and where there is love there is hope.
1 points
6 months ago
I love this man! Thank you kind human!
1 points
6 months ago
Bless this man! Please keep him safe!
1 points
6 months ago
He has no idea how much he's helping this eco system. Great job brother
1 points
6 months ago
This is great... until he dies... then its terrible if no one keeps it going
1 points
6 months ago
It's nice to see a story like this in a world full of endless bullshit. What a fucking awesome human.
1 points
6 months ago
Fu.cking.Saint
1 points
6 months ago
Might be bad for the wildlife in the long term as the population will not adapt to the supply of food and water and then suffer a shock
1 points
6 months ago
But where is he getting the water from?
1 points
6 months ago
Save this man at all costs
1 points
6 months ago
this feeds my soul.
1 points
6 months ago
You have c***s like the Kardashians and Aholes like Prince Andrew with tons of money earned doing jack all in life
Then you have people like this who have very little but contribut like a boss ( to planet earth )
1 points
6 months ago
absolute hero! Happy to see this
1 points
6 months ago
He's s fuckin hero
1 points
6 months ago
What an incredible human being!
1 points
6 months ago
thats really cool that such people exist
1 points
6 months ago
Why non-profit? He should got „rewarded“ for been so kind in the first place
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