Every 20 seconds, a child dies
According to the World Health Organization, a child dies from a preventable disease associated with lack of clean water every 20 seconds.1
Water…something we take for granted, is worth more than money or precious stones. Clean Water is health. Water is life. And ironically, water can also be a source of death. Diseases like cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever and guinea worm parasites plaque people whose only source of water is contaminated.
It is estimated that almost half the people in the developing world have one of the main diseases related to inadequate water supply and sanitation, and that about 90% of diarrheal disease – the second leading cause of death among children under five years of age – is attributed to unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.2
It doesn’t have to be this way. The provision of clean, uncontaminated drinking water through the drilling of capped water wells can end this cycle of suffering and death.
Drilling water wells is GAiN’s gift to poor and needy people who suffer because of water contamination or scarcity. The Water for Life strategy has grown to include a variety of nations throughout the developing world where clean water sources are few, including Benin, China, Haiti, India, Sudan and Tanzania.
“This is what the Lord says, ‘I have healed this water.
Never again will it cause death or make the land unproductive’.”
2 Kings 2:21 (NIV)
