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But Damon also says the campaign is an opportunity to educate people on an issue that may be outside their experience.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We don't know anybody who doesn't have access because, you know, we've solved that in the West. So, that's always the first hurdle that we have to clear: just trying to let people understand...help people understand how huge this problem is and how many people and children are dying needlessly. A million children every year. I mean, it's unthinkable.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              In a 4-year partnership with beermaker Stella Artois, water.org hopes to raise enough money to create access to clean water for 3.5 million people by 2020. According to the campaign, there are more than 663 million people impacted by the global water crisis.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, 7 November 2014\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Medium of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on the red carpet\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Wide of Matt Damon and his wife in a crowd on the red carpet\u003cbr/\u003e              New York, 16 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              3. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Damon, Actor:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Well, looking back I just wished I'd listened before I weighed in on this or I wouldn't have said what I said. Yeah, I think ultimately what it comes down to for me is I just don't - I don't want to further anybody's pain with what I do or say, you know, period. And so for that I am sorry. You know, I've just been listening to the response, and a lot of it has been very helpful to me, so I'm going to continue to do that. I'm very much - the Time's Up movement is great, and a lot of those women are my dear friends and I support what they are doing, and want to be a part of this change because it's necessary and its important. But I was saying earlier, I want to go for the ride but I'm in the back seat, you know, and listen.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Wide of Matt Damon pouring a beer at an event to promote water.org\u003cbr/\u003e              5. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Damon, Actor:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Am I shocked that men serially sexually harass women? No, I'm not, I mean I'm glad that women are feeling empowered to speak up and they should, and we need to support them as they do. And hopefully this is going to catalyze a giant system change and I'm certainly onboard for that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              6. UPSOUND (English) Matt Damon, Actor:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I don't know if I have any real tradition. I went to Jimmy Kimmel's house a few years ago and he kind of threw me out. So, then I watched it at my house last night.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              7. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Damon, Actor:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"You know, we've had this partnership with Stella for four years now. And this is just a really big...it's a big deal obviously for us to be in a Super Bowl ad for water.org. It's kind of bigger than anything we could have hoped for. They're just so willing to use their massive reach to, and leverage that to reach so many people with this message and that's just great because it hopefully means a lot of people will engage.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              8. UPSOUND (English) Matt Damon, Actor:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"On a trip I was on, I was in rural Zambia and I went on a water collection with a teenage girl and that experience... She came home from school, we walked about a mile and got water out of this well and I had a good chance to talk with her.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              9. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Damon, Actor:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I think because we solved this problem here, and so we don't know anybody who doesn't have access to clean water. When people raise money for cancer research or AIDS research, we all have family and friends who've been touched by that, by those things personally. And people haven't been touched personally by access to clean water. We don't know anybody who doesn't have access because, you know, we've solved that here in the West. So, that's always the first hurdle that we have to clear: just trying to let people understand...help people understand how huge this problem is and how many people and children are dying needlessly. A million children every year. I mean, it's unthinkable.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              10. UPSOUND (English) Matt Damon, Actor:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"And through this translator she told me that she's was going to move to Zambia...I mean,  Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, from this rural village. She was going to become a nurse. She had all these great hopes and dreams and this future kind of planned out for herself. And she just kind of reminded me of Ben Affleck and me when we were that age and, you know, we were going to move to New York and we were going to be actors. I just really related to her in that age and I remembered what that felt like and when I left I realized that had I...someone not have the foresight to sink this borewell, a mile from where she lived, she'd be spending her entire day scavenging for water. She wouldn't be in school.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              11. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Damon, Actor:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Sometimes we refer to them as the 'Water Mafia.' Which is true...they're vendors basically who are making a business by selling water at an inflated price. Or, in a lot of cases, loan sharks will give out loans for people to say, 'build a latrine,' and they'll be doing it at 125% and, you know, and paying it off. So, that's kind of proof that the microfinance institutions could move in there and give a much fairer loan and get the loan paid back.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              12. Wide of Matt Damon and members of water.org hold up beer chalices.\u003cbr/\u003e              13. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Damon, Actor:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I'm watching it no matter what, but hopefully the Patriots will be in it. But if they're not I'll still watch and I'm excited to see what happens. If we can get the word out about this and can move the needle and people can get into the kind of 'Make your Super Bowl Party Matter' campaign. And it will be exciting to see how much money we can raise and how many people we can help.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              14. 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