Support for those impacted by the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan continues to increase from the Hollywood community. Mark Wahlberg, Jimmy Fallon and Diddy have all donated money and additional support to help.
Diddy and Mark Wahlberg are donating 1 million water bottles to the city of Flint via AQUAhydrate, a Los Angeles–based bottled-water company. Both partially own AQUAhydrate. The company will start by sending 5,000 cases of water to Flint by Wednesday. They have added that they will continue to send more inventory to the city as needed. Eminem, a Michigan native, and Wiz Khalifa added their support to the company's pledge.
Late night show, Jimmy Fallon took to Twitter and announced that he would be doing $10,000 to The Community Foundation of Greater Flint. He asked 10 of his friends to match the donation.
Rock 'n' roll group Pearl Jam and friends of the band were amongst one of the first to lend support to the city of Flint.
The band’s donation was announced by the United Way of Genesee County and on their website. Jamie Gaskin, chief executive officer of the United Way of Genesee County, opened up about the donation and how it will be helping those who are dealing with the water crisis. It was stressed that this money would be used right away in order to help the most people.