Photo: Turning on the tap
CHRISTIAN AID/ANTIONETTE POWELL
CHRISTIAN AID/ANTIONETTE POWELL
Turning on the tap: this year’s World Water Day, on 22 March, comes two weeks after the United Nations announced that the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for access to clean drinking water had been achieved — three years before its target of 2015, writes Joe Ware.
More than two billion people have gained access to better water-sources since 1990.
In Ethopia, a Christian Aid partner, Water Action, has dug bore-holes in communities, improving the lives of women in particular.
In the small town of Kerati, Eyerusalem Habtamu (above) said: "Since I started using this water, I haven't been sick with waterborne diseases, and it has solved the problems of collecting water at night. We are safe from being raped. All of these are improvements in my life."
Browse Church and Charity jobs on the Church Times jobsite