Giving Compass' Take:

• Leah Rodriguez reports that Jaden Smith's company JUST Water is bringing clean water to Flint, MI through a mobile filtration system.

• Is this a suitable and sustainable solution to the Flint water crisis? How can funders best address this crisis and other ongoing water crisis? 

• Read about lessons from the Flint water crisis. 

Musician and actor Jaden Smith is helping to bring clean water to Flint, Michigan, the Associated Press reports.

The 20-year-old entrepreneur's company JUST Water announced on Friday it is collaborating with First Trinity Missionary Baptist Church to release a mobile filtration system they designed called the "Water Box." Residents still affected by the Flint water crisis can use the device to remove lead and other poisons from contaminated water. The device will produce up to 10 gallons of clean drinking water per minute.

Lead piping has caused a deadly water crisis since 2014 in Flint. Nearly 100,000 residents of the majority-black city were exposed to dangerously high lead levels in the water. The Michigan Department of Civil Rights blames the government’s negligence on systemic environmental racism. The contamination has been responsible for at least 12 deaths, and more than 80 people were sickened with Legionnaires’ disease.

Read the full article about access clean water for Flint residents by Leah Rodriguez at Global Citizen.