Water: Turn on the Tap

The Water Crisis

For 884 million people, having no access to a safe water supply is a daily reality. Every year 1.4 million children die from diarrhoeal diseases – diseases transmitted through contaminated water and poor hygiene practices. Every day more than 3,800 children die from a diarrhoeal disease, that means one child dies every 20 seconds.

Unsafe water sources that people are forced to use every day are killing thousands.

Samaritan's Purse Response

Samaritan's Purse Canada is attacking this travesty by installing BioSand Water Filter in homes throughout the developing world. These simple household water filters effectively remove up to 99 per cent of all water-borne pathogens, along with particulate matter. The result is water that is safe to drink, cook and clean with.

Samaritan's Purse Canada has provided more than 104,000 families around with the world with safe water through the BioSand Water Filter and another 2,000 filters are installed each month, along with essential health and hygiene training. It is our goal to have installed filters in 135,000 homes, schools, and hospitals by May of 2010 giving safe water to over one million people.

How You Can Help

Donate now to Turn on the Tap

Canadians can Turn on the Tap to clean water for a family at a cost of only $100, providing a family with the filter, vital health and hygiene education and filter maintenance.

Samaritan’s Purse  Water Internships

Every year Samaritan’s Purse Canada, in partnership with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), equips and sends exceptional young Canadians overseas through internships to construct and install BioSand Water Filter. These Canadians go into rural areas that have no access to safe drinking water, and through the BioSand Water Filters and health and hygiene promotion, change whole communities.
Read more about the Samaritan’s Purse/CIDA internships

Ways You Can Help
Pray Please pray that God will continue to provide direction to Samaritan’s Purse, as we respond to people’s needs, share the love of Christ, and serve the church worldwide.		Give The need is urgent. A child is dying every 20 seconds in the developing world from diarrhoeal diseases caused by polluted water. Donate Here.