Clean water is helping Avril stay safe
Avril used to risk her life every day. Each morning, the 15-year-old would walk more than three miles through an area known for crime and violence. But she didn’t have a choice. She had to make the trip to gather water for her family. Avril knew her route was...
‘Too much, too little, too dirty:’ Asia’s water crisis
“Too much, too little, and too dirty” — that’s how one representative at the Asian Development Bank described Asia’s water problems. Too much because Asia’s seasonal floods wash debris into the local rivers and make it extremely dangerous for women and children to...
Waiting on the edge of a miracle
“When Jesus saw [the invalid] lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, ‘Do you want to get well?’ ‘Sir,’ the invalid replied, ‘I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get...
Water changes everything
Do you know much water you use every day? Studies show that the average American uses 80-100 gallons per day — and that’s just one person! Clean water is everywhere we turn in the U.S., but that’s not the case in many countries. Today on World Water Day — a day set...
A snapshot of water in Africa
Several years ago, the United Nations released an overwhelming statistic: women in Africa spend 40 billion hours a year collecting water. Yes, I said billion. That’s equivalent to the amount of time the population of France spends at their jobs every year. It’s no...
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