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Clean Water for Everyone

Posted Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 by Field Notes

INDIA – Undisclosed village, Jharkhand In many places where we drill and repair wells, there are often working wells nearby—but certain people aren’t allowed to use them. Whether the restriction has to do with class, religion, or something else altogether, sometimes the problem isn’t... [Read more]

The Cattle Still Use the River

Posted Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 by Field Notes

INDIA – Undisclosed village, Bastar This muddy river in India has several purposes. The cattle bathe and drink here. So do the people. More than 200 people satisfied their daily water needs in this river. Now, the cattle still use the river, but the people use the new well installed by Living... [Read more]

Taste and see

Posted Thursday, May 21st, 2009 by Jonathan Wiles

INDIA – Brother Timothy works among the remote tribal people who live in the mountains of eastern Andhra Pradesh. This region is just south of Orissa, the Indian state that has been a hot spot of religious persecution in recent years. Things aren’t quite as desperate here as they are... [Read more]

A Real Community

Posted Thursday, April 16th, 2009 by Jonathan Wiles

INDIA – The village of Kakkudamon is a cluster of homes that perch on a rocky hill near the edge of a national forest in the south Indian state of Kerala. The families who make up these households live here because the land is cheap—they can’t afford to live anywhere else. This... [Read more]

Bringing water, building bridges

Posted Monday, December 1st, 2008 by Jonathan Wiles

INDIA – Meet Mathew. He is a full-time missionary to the prisons in Kerala, a state in southern India. Now in his fifties, he has been doing this work for many years. He feels that it suits him—years ago, he was a convict himself. Although he has spent much of his time traveling from prison... [Read more]

“Now They Can Go to School.”

Posted Thursday, June 5th, 2008 by LWI Editor

INDIA – When the summer is at its peak and the drought spreads through the Telengana region of Andhra Pradesh, it becomes a real struggle to find clean water. People wait in the street, desperately hoping that a water tanker will stop. Others line up to wait their turn at a neighborhood... [Read more]

LWI Deploying Team to China

Posted Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 by Cheryl Thornton

A Living Water International fact-finding group recently returned from a two week survey of water needs in China. The group met with government officials, private development agencies, and visited remote areas where clean water is a particularly desperate need. It is estimated that 400 million... [Read more]

Hygiene Education Critical for Survival in Rural India

Posted Friday, July 13th, 2007 by LWI Editor

INDIA (MNN) ― Only 30 percent of people have access to clean water in rural areas of India. Mahasamund District is three hours outside of Raipur, where Living Water International helped villages in mid-May. LWI installed 10 wells in 10 different villages earlier this year. During that... [Read more]

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