Actor and Water.org co-founder Matt Damon joins Influencers with Andy Serwer to talk about World Water Day and how investing in water where it is scarce is a legitimate investment.

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MATT DAMON: This is going to take-- it's an all hands on deck approach for us. So we'll take all the good energy toward solving this. And yeah, I mean, you know, to Gary's point, Bill Clinton said to us probably over 10 years ago now, you know, to-- he looked at the model, and he goes, this is going to work, guys. And he goes, just keep running the numbers up. Run the numbers up, and he was right.

At a certain point, you become undeniable. Like, we reached our first million people in 2012, and now we hit two million people a quarter. And so what Gary's saying is true. At a certain point, people have to take notice that these loans are paying back at over 99%. You know, this is a very good bet. And all we're trying to do is get the attention of the heavy hitters to come into this space because there is so much low hanging fruit here. And this model really, really works.

And so that's where-- like, where are we in 10 years really depends on kind of the tipping point and when we hit that tipping point. Absent that, just the work we're doing, I mean, we'll have hit 60 million people in a couple of years, which is nothing to sneeze at. You know, had we been drilling wells, we would have been doing that for a number of lifetimes to hit that number. So, that's exciting, but what's really exciting next is the next step. And that's what we're aiming towards.