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Water U Doing?

Sharing the love of Christ, by caring for those in need.

Population 85 million

No Water 49 million

No Sanitation 75.9 million

Infant Mortality 8%

Below Poverty 38.7%

Ethiopia

In rural Ethiopia,

women and children walk

up to six hours to

collect water. Most people collect water from shallow, unprotected

ponds which they share with animals.

Women and girls collect drinking water at a river they share with cattle and other

livestock.

In just one day, more than 200

million hours of women’s

time is consumed for the most basic

of human needs — collecting water for

domestic use.

The jugs women use to carry water back to the village weigh up to 40 pounds! Often, young children are left at home

while their mother and older siblings collect water and their fathers work.

Millions of women and children spend several hours each day collecting water from distant, often polluted sources. This is time not spent working at an

income-generating job, caring for family members, or

attending school.

One out of four girls and one out of seven

boys do not finish elementary school.

An Ethiopian School

Four out of ten people in the world have no good sanitation.

Children around the world die because of disease that can be prevented if there was

clean water.

50% of respiratory diseases can be reduced by good soapy handwashing…

…good soapy handwashing

requires WATER.

More than 3.5 million people die each year from water-related disease;

84 percent are children.

Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease.

Lack of access to

clean water and

sanitation kills children

at a rate equivalent of

a jumbo jet crashing

every four hours.

Nearly one billion people – about one in eight – lack access to clean water.

More than twice that many, 2.5 billion people, don’t have access to a toilet.

The purchase of one well would provide

clean water for an entire village.

The U.S. consumed 8.8 million gallons of bottled water in 2007.

How many wells could be purchased with the money

we spend daily on bottled water?

What are YOU doing?