Samaritan's Purse Canada

Safe Water Brings Life

You Can Give Safe Water in Jesus’ Name




The Water Crisis

What if the water you drank forced you to make a choice with every sip? Either you go thirsty or swallow and risk the danger lurking inside. Countless families must make this choice every day. The very thing they need for life—to drink, wash, and cook—also brings terrible sickness or far worse.

Many also have no choice but to walk many dangerous kilometers just to get a single bucket.

All that changes when a family gets access to safe water.

 

The Stats

829,000 people die each year from diarrhea as a result of unsafe drinking-water, sanitation, and hand hygiene.

-WHO, World Health Organization, 2022

771 million people in the world live without clean water.

-WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program, 2021

584 million children lack safe drinking water access in schools.

-UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program, 2020

 

Providing Safe Water at Home and School

Safe water brings life to families. It gives them health and strength to live. It frees them from the threat of waterborne diseases, giving parents the ability to provide for their families and children the opportunity to stay in school—looking toward a better future.

Safe water comes through the simple gift of a water filter. At home or at school, these filters are robust, easy to maintain, and require no electricity. They make dirty, dangerous water safe. They relieve families of the fear of what is inside their cup.

Best of all, this simple, powerful gift opens doors to share the Good News of Jesus, who said, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” John 7:37-38.