Giorgio Armani's campaign to bring clean water to Haiti For the past three years the fashion designer Giorgio Armani has been helping to provide clean drinking water to some of the poorest regions in the world. His charity Acqua for Life has enabled communities in Ghana and Bolivia to harvest 95 million litres of water and has installed systems that will give them safe drinking water for the next 15 years. Water is one of the most important elements for life, and yet in many parts of the world a supply of clean water is restricted and difficult to access," Armani says. This year he has turned his attention to Haiti, where in 2010 a 7.0-scale earthquake killed 220,000 people. About 350,000 still live in camps and at least 8,000 have died of cholera, a disease caused by poor sanitation and unclean water. Elina, Pétionville: 'I regret that clean water is so expensive'. Penn founded his charity immediately after the earthquake struck, and became the manager of a camp of 50-60,000 displaced people in Pétionville, a suburb of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The monies from this joint effort will go to building sustainable water systems, teaching lifestyle hygiene to local communities, and identifying and executing improvements to the broken system," he says. It will also include installing water pumps at the Pétionville camp. The rebuilding of Haiti is going to take a sustained effort from passionate individuals for many years to come, and we need the extraordinary commitment from dedicated individuals like Mr Armani. Haitian women live only 52 years, Haitian men only 48 years. All this due to bad water. To highlight the campaign Armani commissioned the Magnum photo­grapher Jim Goldberg to spend six days documenting life in Haiti. The resulting collection, Acqua #3, is exhibited this week at the Paris Photo fair in Los Angeles. I was challenged to produce a piece of work about water that was beautiful and honestly reflected the harsh reality of Haiti life and infrastructure," Goldberg says. Perhaps the most striking image is of a seemingly dried-up river dotted with tiny figures collecting water. Goldberg, who won the Henri Cartier-Bresson prize in 2007 and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2011, said photographing the river was one of the most poignant moments of the trip. From the mountaintop above it looked like a large dry river bed, but once we drove off the road down into the river it was evident that we were about to get stuck in a complicated maze of ruts and rushing water. Wherever I turned I saw wonderful vignettes happening in the river bed - people watering animals, women doing laundry, men washing motorcycles and themselves, trucks dumping trash, men carrying rocks, boys playing soccer, children jumping over stones. I could have gazed at this scene for hours. Jacmel river bed. Goldberg describes himself as a 'documentary storyteller" and is known for using a combination of video stills, photographs and text to create collages. One photograph in Acqua #3 is of a woman carrying a bucket on her head. The muted image seems to reflect the sadness in her gaze. 'I hope I was able to communicate why it's important not to forget," Goldberg says. Follow Telegraph Magazine on Twitter