Diamond Water is the Patented Invention of John Charter IV, third generation jeweler, Graduate Gemologist and hopeful philanthropist.

A trip to Sierra Leone in 2002 to investigate the rough diamond business resulted in the inspiration for Diamond Water and the associated Literacy Project – Rice for Literacy.

Mr. Charter has been engaged in the Jewelry and Gem Trade since the 1950’s in the back room of his father’s Jewelry store in Lincoln, Illinois. After attending Pine Crest School, Gem City College, Tulane University, Santa Monica College and the Gemological Institute of America, he became the Diamond Course Instructor at the GIA until striking out on his own adventures. Travel related to the gem and diamond business led to South America, Asia, Israel, Thailand, Japan, India, Italy, the Phillipines, Germany, Switzerland, England and eventually Africa.