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Crisis Alert in CAR

Our partners in CAR are recent victims of national political unrest. Please help us meet their critical needs—both physical and spiritual.
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Give Well

Spread the word and raise funds for clean water around the world. Join Give Well today.
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The H2O Project

Take the H2O Challenge. Make tap water your only beverage for a time and offer the savings to the thirsty.
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Team Living Water

Find an event, start a team and run, walk, or ride for the thirsty. We endure so they don’t have to.
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Water and Health

At any given time, half of the world's hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease.

Nearly 90 percent of all diseases in the world are caused by unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, and poor hygiene. Every year, there are 4 billion cases of diarrhea as a direct result of drinking contaminated water; this results in more than 2.2 million deaths each year ‐ the equivalent of 20 jumbo jets crashing every day.

The weakest members of communities are the most vulnerable; every day water-related diseases claim the lives of 5000 children under the age of five. That?s roughly one every 15 seconds.

Clean water and sanitation are among the most powerful preventative medicines for reducing child mortality. They are to diarrhea what immunization is to killer diseases such as measles or polio: a mechanism for reducing risk and averting death.
- United Nations Development Program, 2006

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