LOUISVILLE, Ky. - In the wake of Hurricane Dorian, survival hinges on access to medical treatment and clean water.

Mark Hogg says you can't have a proper medical response without clean water, "Right now our goal is to begin raising funds to get the funding that we need and the donations that we need."

Hogg is the founder of, Water Step, a non-profit agency helping disaster-stricken and underdeveloped regions of the world make their own clean drinking water.

"What we have is critical in these first days and in the days following," Hogg says. 

Water Step provides smaller bleach-making kits and larger yet portable water filtering equipment.  In the coming days, Hogg hopes to send 20, 500-gallon units to The Bahamas.

Each unit is capable of delivering as much as 10,000 gallons of clean water every 24 hours. Hogg says a single filtration system costs $4,500 and hopes the community can help them cover the cost of deployment.

To learn more about Water Step and how you can help click here.