{"id":45878,"date":"2015-03-06T16:06:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T21:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.samaritanspurse.org\/?p=45878"},"modified":"2025-04-07T12:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:28:58","slug":"pour-into-a-thirsty-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/water\/pour-into-a-thirsty-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Pour Into A Thirsty World | Samaritan’s Purse"},"content":{"rendered":" \r\n\t
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In a world where 748 million people live without access to clean water, Samaritan's Purse is actively digging wells, installing filters, and implementing life-saving water projects around the globe.<\/p> \r\n\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\r\n\t\t\t

Together, we can pour into the lives of others in a way that satisfies more than just physical thirst.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Water Is Worth Celebrating<\/h3><\/div>\r\n
Easy access to clean water can bring positive, holistic change to impoverished communities<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\t \r\n \r\n
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Kaaki village in Kitui County, Kenya, went two years without a working well. The diesel generator that powered the pump broke, and repairs were too difficult and too costly a burden for this impoverished community where most people live on $2 a day or less.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

During the driest months of those two years, women—to whom the task of fetching water normally falls here—had to make a 16-mile round-trip trek to find water in the surrounding hills. The twice-per-week hike, with at least one donkey along to carry the water cans, usually took 6 hours or more and was undertaken in the dark, due to both daytime obligations and a desire to avoid the baking sun. It was a risk that had to be taken. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

\u201cI was afraid because of animals, robbers, and thugs,\u201d said Ruth Mwango, a local preschool teacher.<\/p>\r\n \r\n

Those fears became reality for some. Village leaders said there were cases of sexual assault against girls and younger women as they traveled.<\/p>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n

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For everyone, the hardship of having no easy access to clean water became a grinding misery. Some adults didn\u2019t treat the water they found and got sick with diarrheal diseases. Children missed school because they were ill or searching for water. Bathing and washing clothes were out of the question. Livestock suffered as well, and that meant less food and less cash. <\/p>\r\n \r\n

But the situation changed dramatically when Samaritan\u2019s Purse rehabilitated the well using a solar power system. Twelve maintenance-free panels grab about 200 watts of energy from the sun that then power a control unit that powers the pump motor nearly 500 feet below. The pump then sends almost 400 gallons of water an hour through underground piping to two 2,600-gallon kiosks at the edge of the main road several hundred yards away.<\/p>\r\n \t<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n

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