World Water Day 2025
You Can Make a Difference About the Lack of Clean Water People Face By Amanda DeWitt Women and children in the toughest places walk an average of 1-2 hours a day — and often much more — to collect water for their families. Many times, the water they collect is not even clean. In the […]
Make a Splash
You Can Make a Difference for Those Without Clean Water By Amanda DeWitt It can be easy to take clean water for granted — especially this time of year. Take a minute and think of all the ways we use water. We use it to water our lawns and fill our swimming pools. We need […]
In Their Own Words
The Difference Water Makes for People in Tough Places By Amanda DeWitt /*! elementor – v3.19.0 – 29-01-2024 */.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} Shortages of safe, clean water and a lack of sanitation and hygiene programs create the most significant source of suffering on earth. It is one thing to know the statics. But it […]
Five Tough Questions about Water Answered
Why Water Really Matters for People in the Toughest Places By Amanda DeWitt For people in the toughest places, safe, clean water is a precious commodity. Families often spend hours searching for it each day. And when they cannot find it, they may be left with no choice but to drink dirty water — knowing […]
The Making of a Well
How We Drill Wells for People in the Toughest Places By Amanda DeWitt In the toughest places people lack access to the safe, clean water they need to survive. Women and children are often forced to walk for miles searching for a water source. As they make their way through dangerous terrain, they are also […]
Plant a Garden and Keep It Watered
How a Clean Water Well Allows Families to Grow Nutritious Food By Amanda DeWitt People are hungry and thirsty — and the two go hand-in-hand. Experts estimated that 2.2 billion people do not have adequate access to safe drinking water. By 2025 up to half the world may live in water-stressed areas. Additionally, as many 811 […]
Clean Water: For More Than Just Drinking
Why Sanitation Matters By Amanda DeWitt Water gives life — for more reasons than we sometimes consider. The World Health Organization (WHO) indicated that currently 19 percent of the world’s population lacks access to clean drinking water. And 22 percent of people are without basic handwashing facilities. Most of these people live in the toughest […]
Never Thirsty Again
Why Water Filters Matter for People in the Toughest Places By Amanda DeWitt He clutches his cup of safe, clean water. The expression on his face says it all. For him the water in his cup — purified by a water filter — means life-giving hydration so his body can grow strong and healthy. It […]
Our Humanitarian Quest: Clean Water
Clean Water Brings Hope for Children Living in the Toughest Places By Emily Pyatt You turn on the kitchen sink to fill a cup of water after spending time outside. You enjoy pasta for dinner, boiling the noodles in water. You take a bath or enjoy swimming in the pool on a hot summer day. […]
Humanitarian 101: Clean Water
Providing Safe, Clean Water in the Toughest Places By Amanda DeWitt Ask these women, and they will tell you — what they carry on their head is more than just a brightly colored bucket filled to the brim. Having a source of safe, clean water transforms their entire lives. Shortages of clean water and lack […]
Freedom to Life
How Safe, Clean Water Transforms Entire Villages By Amanda DeWitt “Water is freedom to life,” says Maysa, a wife and mother in the African nation of Chad. “Before we had a water well in our village, there were only two things we could do,” she said. “We could walk 7 kilometers (4.5 miles) to try […]
The Kindness of God
How Kindness Leads People to Living Water By Amanda DeWitt Mubita could hardly believe his eyes. The broken down well in his Zambian village finally worked. He had started to lose hope. People came to his village before, promising to repair the well. But the work was never done. When an Unto® local partner made a […]
21 Seconds Can Change a Life
How Water Transforms Communities and Lives By Amanda DeWitt A child dies from a water-related illness every 21 seconds. A startling statistic, yet these are someone’s children. Someone’s grandchildren. Every day moms and dads in places like Africa face a terrible dilemma — giving their children drinking water that is contaminated. They have no choice. […]
Water Is Life
How Your Partnership Shares Living Water By Al Goff Grace Pule has seen firsthand the devastation that unsafe water brings. As a minister at Prince of Peace Church in a small village in Zambia, she struggled with her community through the deadly cholera outbreak that struck one year ago. In need of water, which was […]
The Ones Who Came Back
Water Wells Proved What People Found Hard to Believe By Stephen Hunt In rural Tanzania near the village of Old Maswa, a group of children sat around a hand-dug hole. The children, some as young as toddlers, dipped a bowl into the puddle of water that seeped into the hole and poured the cloudy brown […]
Accessing the End of the Earth
Access, Credibility, and Ministry Effectiveness By Stephen Hunt Some Africans refer to this place as “the end of the earth.” Chad, the largest land-locked country in Africa, is as dry as that distinction suggests. If you travel around the country, you will find some of the most desolate and remote places imaginable. You’ll breathe more […]
Water: Carrying the Burden Part 2
The Water We Consume By Lara Strain If you recall from the previous post in this two-part series “Imagine Your Day Revolving Around Water Collection,” the minimum water necessary for survival amounts to a mere 2 gallons. That increases to 13 gallons if you desire clean clothes and thorough bathing and hygiene. How Much Water […]
Water: Carrying the Burden Part 1
Imagine Your Day Revolving Around Water Collection By Lara Strain Our lives overflow with busyness. We focus time and attention on our work, fun activities, and our hobbies. This list of pursuits doesn’t include gathering water. However, millions of people, mostly women and children, spend countless hours collecting water for their families. How Much Water […]
