Water
Water
By partnering with Covenant World Relief and Development you are helping to provide clean water to the more than one billion people without access.
By partnering with Covenant World Relief and Development you are helping to provide clean water to the more than one billion people without access.
- Clean water saves lives. Bottom line–bringing clean water is a fast way to save lives.
- Clean water makes people healthier. By eliminating water borne diseases and promoting better sanitation, people lead healthier lives.
- Clean water gives people more time. When people no longer have to walk miles to access water, when they no longer have to spend extra energy on accessing water for household tasks like cooking, cleaning, and washing, they are freed to attend school, enter the workforce, and to better their families and communities.
- Clean water betters the economy. As more people are able to enter the workforce and people are healthier, the economy of the country grows.
- Clean water promotes equity. Women are disproportionately effected by the lack of clean water–they are the ones who typically spend hours gathering water; they are the ones who spend hours traveling to wash clothing; they are the ones who care for children who are sick because of water-borne illness. But, when they have access to clean water they can spend their time doing other things to better their family communities. Girls who used to have to spend their days carrying water can now go to school. And, as communities form water committees, women are often the leaders of these committees. When women are seen as having leadership ability and skill, family dynamics and community structures change.