Today’s Solutions: January 22, 2025

About five years ago, Kevin Kassel traveled to Ecuador with a school group and experienced something that would change his life. As part of the trip, he delivered a water filter to an elementary school. “When we got there, we learned that a little girl had died from diarrhea as a result of contaminated water only the week before,” he said. “I was shocked. We don’t think of diarrhea as fatal, and the fact that

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