Today, I am thankful for water. I don't necessarily drink it as often as I should or as I used to. But I use it every day, and without it, I guarantee I'd at least feel a little lost. You can't wash your hands without it. You can't flush a toilet without it (though there are "toilets" which don't use it at all-I suppose you could use one of those.). You can't wash dishes without it. You can't quench your thirst without it. You can't really cook without it. According to cleanwaterfortheworld.org, every 15 seconds a child dies from a water-borne disease. And 1.1 billion people in the world lack access to clean water... that's about 1/6 of the people in the world. I am not part of that 17%. Today, I choose to be thankful for that.
To find out more about how to solve this problem and get clean water for the world, visit cleanwaterfortheworld.org, water.org, or google "world clean water access" and find a number of pages related to this topic.
Also, to let you know, I will be going out of town until Sunday. I will do my best to write while I am gone, but if I don't, I'll make sure to still post for those days once I get back.
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