Riding bikes, raising money for “Waters of Hope”
Image courtesy of Episcopal Life online
Even in chronically drought-stricken states like California and Texas, most Americans have easy access to clean water for drinking and doing household chores. This is not true in much of the developing world. When I lived in Micronesia as a child it took a lot of work to make sure that our water was safe; we collected and filtered rain water (it rained there every afternoon, all year long), because all the other water that was available to us needed to be boiled or bleached before it could be consumed or even used for washing dishes. Most of us can’t imagine living like this. Nor can we imagine having to walk miles to the nearest water source, and then being able to use only as much water as we can carry home with us.
And yet, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council “one billion people around…
