July 7, 2010

Building Wells and Writing Senators: Your Support=Lives Saved


Collaboration with charity: water and Living Waters for the World

We are proud to announce that we will be collaborating with charity:water to build three wells in three villages in three African nations: Ethiopia, Liberia, and Uganda. The wells will serve over 1,000 people. The digging of these wells will begin this fall, and we will update you with photos, blogs, and even GPS coordinates so you can follow the development and the life of the villages which will soon have an easier access to clean, safe water.

In the United States, we will be working with Living Waters for the World to install appropriate water treatment systems for families in the Appalachia region. It is estimated that several thousand families within Appalchia are without clean water, either due to lack of reliable water supplies or the fact that their water supply is contaminated. We will commit to ensuring that several of these families will soon have a safe, clean, and a reliable water source for their household needs.

Dear Senators...

Yesterday, we mailed out over 2,322 of YOUR signatures signed at the Brad Paisley H2O World Tour Concerts during May and June for our Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2009 petition to Senators in Virginia, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan.

We asked Senators Carl Levin (D-MI), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), George V. Voinovich (R-OH), Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Jim Webb (D-VA), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Evan Bayh (D-IN), and Richard G. Lugar (D-IN) to sign the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2009 as a co-sponsor to advance clean water and sanitation development activities. The Act would provide 100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe drinking water and sanitation on a sustainable basis by 2015 by improving the capacity of the United States Government to fully implement the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005.

At the same time, we said thank you to Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Christopher S. Bond (R-MO) for already co-sponsoring this important bill.

If you would like to call or write your Senator, click HERE to find his/her contact information.

Don't Forget to TEXT H2O to 25383...

If you haven't already, please consider TEXTING H20 to 25383 to donate $10 to go toward building wells in Africa and providing water purification systems in Appalachia. We need your support today. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and help us spread the word to raise support and save lives!

Thanks for your action and advocacy for a better, safer world,

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Jenny Eaton Dyer, Ph.D.