{"id":18921,"date":"2017-03-06T10:35:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T18:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?p=18921"},"modified":"2020-06-05T08:53:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:53:29","slug":"seeing-real-faces-global-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/blog\/seeing-real-faces-global-water-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the real faces of the global water crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

663 million people don’t have clean water. It’s a difficult number to imagine. But it’s time to start putting real faces to this number.<\/em><\/p>\n

Start with one. Because one more child with clean water brings 663 million down to 662,999,999. And one by one we can bring clean water to children across the globe.<\/em><\/p>\n

See a great place to start!<\/em><\/p>\n

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663 million people in the world lack access to clean water<\/a>. That’s more than twice the population of the United States<\/a>! More alarming is the fact that preventable disease caused by drinking contaminated water kills more people each year than war, HIV and AIDS, and traffic accidents combined<\/em>.<\/p>\n

When we read numbers like 663 million, we have a tendency to shut down; we cannot wrap our minds around such large numbers. We imagine crowds, or if you’re like me, you imagine de-personalized data charts, but we cannot comprehend 663 million individual human beings who have lives, families, neighbors, jobs, dreams, fears … but that is the reality. 663 million real people <\/em>do not have access to a basic need that I so often take for granted.<\/p>\n

Here’s the good news: The water crisis is solvable. This isn’t a pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky notion. In 1990, 76% of the world had access to improved drinking water sources. By 2015 91% of the global population<\/a> had access to improved water sources. Significant progress has been made over the last 25 years! But we still have work to do.<\/p>\n

We know how to bring clean water to those who need it. World Vision empowers and equips indigenous people groups to plan and execute the construction of the most appropriate water source for their community. You would be amazed at the variety of methods used to bring life-giving water to the poorest regions in the world:<\/p>\n