Water, water everywhere…but not enough that’s clean, says a new WHO and UNICEF report released this week. As part of the Millennium Development Goals, the world aimed to halve by 2015 the population without access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation. The good news is that we met the drinking water goal back in 2010.
2 billion people have gained access to improved drinking water because of smart investment in water and sanitation. This is resulting in 1,656 children’s lives saved every day. Now that’s great news, but there is still much to do – 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation and hygiene related causes. Completely preventable, stupid, loss of life that should not be allowed in today’s world. Yet it goes on. Women and girls are most affected by this tragic reality, keeping them trapped in extreme poverty and devastated by preventable disease.
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FEATURED AUTHOR: Malaka Gharib
Earlier this week, I caught up with ONE supporter and the longest congressional champion of global access to clean water and sanitation, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, who represents Oregon’s third Congressional district, about the global water crisis and his unwavering support for US foreign assistance.
For World Water Day, March 22, ONE asked its members to donate their voices to raise awareness about the importance of water sustainability. The Chicago ONE Congressional District Leaders rose to the challenge by raising awareness at the Global Passport Youth Summit. The event was sponsored by Surge for Water, a US nonprofit organization that funds projects that provide access to safe water in developing regions.
To celebrate World Water Day we have a guest post from Jonny McKay of Excellent Development. Excellent Development support communities in Kenya to build Sand Dams which provide clean water for life and the opportunity to grow more food to eat, store and sell. For women in the world’s rural drylands, life is defined by the burden of collecting water. For the old and the young, the sick and the healthy, it is a chore with no relief.
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This little cutie kept his smile for the entirety of his check-up and for good reason: An estimated 1.3 million lives were saved globally between 2005 and 2011 by implementing collaborative TB/HIV activities. This weekend is a busy one: World Water Day is on Friday, March 22nd and World Tuberculosis Day is on Sunday March
As people of faith, and as cohabitants of this planet, the knowledge that millions of people go regularly without clean drinking water should set off the alarms in our conscience. When we read in Scripture about Jesus’ miracles, it’s not hard to conclude that God cares about human suffering. All but one of Christ’s miracles involved an element of compassion, and He makes it clear that His followers must do the same.
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