The simple fact that you are able to view this website, suggests that you are likely accustomed to receiving goods in a quick and convenient manner, be it fast food, music downloads, online movie tickets, or information. In fact, majority of us could go completely throughout our lives without ever even thinking twice about how our tap water system works, whether or not there will be enough water for tomorrow, or what deadly bacteria lurks within.
But what if things were different? What if your tap water ceased to work? What if it looked like it would never work again? What if purchasing just enough safe bottled water today costs more than half of your weekly wages? What would you do? Would you buy the luxury water? If not, where would you go instead?
You would probably find yourself looking for the nearest natural above ground water source in your area. Perhaps you are lucky and there is one very close by. Then again, maybe you are not so lucky and the nearest source is 3 miles away. And what will you do to the water when you get there? Do you believe it to be safe? What if no one had the means to treat the water on your behalf? You look around at the pond, there are geese swimming in the water, and you notice a neighbor's dog lapping the water with his tongue. How do you feel at this moment? Do you feel a sense of loss, as if a part of your dignity has been erased?
What if you just spent the last 3 hours getting water for your family, and when you return home they tell you it is not enough? You'll need to go back in a few hours to get more to last the rest of the day. Would you have time to go to school, go to soccer practice, or watch your favorite sitcom? Would you be forced to make changes to your lifestyle, no longer insisting on your clothes being washed every day, flushing the toilet only once late in the day, or reuse the same bath water everyone in your family has used that night?
And to top it off, now your baby brother is getting terribly sick with a stomach ache, and his fever is dangerously approaching 104 degrees. He can't seem to keep anything, food or fluids down. You are very afraid that it might have something to do with the water you gathered. And oh yeah, I forgot to tell you...you are only ten years old.
This is the burden of water. It is the staple resource of so much and so very little can be done without it. It has the power to revive you, and it also has the power to exhaust every ounce of your being, your health, your time, your joy, and even take those who are most precious in your life away from you.
Now you sigh, thank God that is just a hypothetical situation. You double check your sink. Yes, it's still running. But what will you do for the 1.1 billion people who live out this nightmare every day? Would you change things for even one of them if you could? We can show you how.
