Before and After Safe Water: 20 Powerful Photos

A boy wearing a light blue shirt is standing in front of a body of water. He is holding a glass of water in each hand. One glass contains clean water and one contains dirty water. There are trees behind the water.

In northern Uganda, young Betty once faced a frustrating choice: walk nearly 4 miles to fetch water that cows and pigs also drank from, or drink from the nearby well, which was wriggling with worms.

For Betty, a safe water point changed everything. See for yourself! Meet Betty and other children whose lives changed after they gained access to safe drinking water.

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Follow These Children on Their Risky Trek for Clean Water

Follow These Children on Their Risky Trek for Clean Water

Children living in poverty around the world get clean water in all kinds of ways. Some are blessed enough to have pipes deliver water directly to their home. But some children — especially those who live in more remote and rural areas — face quite an adventure to gather their daily water. We invite you along with Stevi and Arnold on their daily trek for clean water.

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The Day of Recognizing World Days of Recognition

The Day of Recognizing World Days of Recognition

There are days recognizing almost everything — puppies, storms, doughnuts, etc. For March’s edition of “Totally Worth It,” we’re highlighting a few world days of recognition we think deserve a little extra attention. We’re declaring today as Totally Worth It Day!

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When Clean Water Is Life

Why Clean Water Is Life

Clean water is as central as the sun and the moon. No matter where you live, its absence and degradation is equally as devastating.

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Sustainable Water Women at Well

World Water Day: Uniting a Community with Sustainable Water

In a country where 1600 people die every die because of diarrhea due to unsafe water and 59% of of those who practice open defecation reside, one Child Development Center took the matter of lack of access to clean sustainable water and sanitation into their own hands and mobilized their community into action.

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A poster with a child holding a glass of clean water and a glass of dirty water

A Cup of Cold Water

No one can survive without water. What is our solution?

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a child in a yellow and white shirt drinking a glass of water

World Water Day 2013

Water is essential to life but can also be very dangerous. It is something we need for survival but can be the cause of so many problems.

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a white cup and white saucer filled with coffee

Jesus Takes His Coffee Black

No matter if we are giving on His behalf for someone in our own neighborhood or across the world: Jesus chooses us to demonstrate His love to those around us!

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two girls drinking water from a faucet

World Water Day 2012 – For the Love of Water

Today — World Water Day — it’s necessary to remember that water is life.

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a boy holding a yellow container crouching down next to a man standing by a water well

World Water Day — Celebrate With Amos Batungura

Tomorrow is World Water Day! Today is World Puppetry Day, and yesterday was World House Sparrow Day — do these days mean anything?

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group of children learning

A Restored Water Plant, Happy Children and Whiter Teeth

When the water plant in Colta Monjas Alto stopped working, everybody in the community started to drink piped water that wasn’t treated at all. Little by little, the Colta Monjas Alto inhabitants, especially the children, started to get ill.

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red bucket in sink

The Luxury of Water and Hair Washing

In America, it’s easy to not think about our easy access to water. Or the fact that 783 million people — 11 percent of the global population — do not have access to safe drinking water, let alone bathing water.

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