Watermark Designs’ Brooklyn Faucet Collection Celebrates 10 Years of Design
When Avi Abel met with Drew Stuart, Adam Rolston and Gabriel Benroth of Incorporated Architecture & Design (Inc.) about a project in New York, they weren’t fully aware of the significance that their collaborative design and resulting collection would ultimately have. As the faucet celebrates its 10th year, it has become symbolic of everything that Watermark Designs represents; designed and manufactured entirely in Brooklyn, there was never a doubt as to what the collection would be named: Brooklyn – the original.
This past year, Watermark Designs became members of Be Original Americas, an organization committed to informing, educating and influencing manufacturers, design professionals and individuals on the economic, ethical and environmental value of authentic design while preserving and investing in its future.
As Brooklyn turns 10, Avi Abel is honoring the faucet by teaming up with Watering Minds, an organization whose sole mission is to provide clean drinking water to children in Haiti. Throughout 2018, Watermark Designs will be donating a portion of Brooklyn collection proceeds to this important charity.
“We take many things for granted in the United States, clean water being one thing, and when I learned about the critical need for clean water for children in Haiti, I knew I had to help. I have teamed up with Watering Minds and their charity, which gives back to the community by providing essential clean water to schools,” says Avi Abel. “For $10.00, we can provide a schoolchild with access to clean drinking water for an entire school year. That’s basically the cost of lunch for one day for us.” He goes on, “The global water crisis affects many developing countries and Haiti is not an exception. Without clean water, children experience diarrhea, become dehydrated and die. It’s that simple and it’s very sad. So much of it can be prevented with access to clean water.”
During the 2016-2017 school year, Watering Minds funded 19,842 students at 146 schools with clean water delivered everyday. Overall, 1,276,528 liters of clean water were delivered to students at schools that were previously unable to provide clean water for their students. The rates of school attendance improved greatly when the school became capable of providing water. Education is vital to Haiti being able to help itself, and offering this necessary resource supports students’ learning.
The celebration of the Brooklyn’s 10-year reign as an innovative and quintessentially New York product is coupled with Watermark Designs’ commitment to design authenticity and charitable giving. Their partnerships with Be Original Americas and Watering Minds position them as faucet forerunners and human rights conscious manufacturers as their characteristic collection hits the decade mark.