BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WSAV) — 2 billion people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water.

Millions of women and children continue to walk more than three miles to collect their family's daily water needs.

That's why Water Mission was created to help people in need, a charity designed to shorten that walk and give families hope of a better life.

Since 2007, 8 million people in more than 65 countries have been served through the charity's money, donations, building engineering and more.

The Walk for Water in Beaufort and Bluffton has been an annual event for the last 9 years.

This year, the local charity arm will join together to bring clean, safe water to more than 2,000 people in need around the world. Their slogan, "We Walk, so others don’t have to."

During the Walk fo

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