Millions of women and children spend hours each day searching for water and carrying it home. Each pail of water weighs 40 pounds.

The woman in the photo is carrying 80 pounds of water over steep mountain trails. She does this several times each day. Carrying water causes physical damage to heads, necks and spines, and the constant need for water leaves little time for productive work or education.

The sad thing is that most of the water these women and children carry home is contaminated with micro-organisms that spread disease. In communities without safe drinking water, half of all the children under 5 years of age die from water-borne disease.

In many of the countries life expectancy is frighteningly low. Clean Water For The World makes a huge difference in the lives of individuals living in communities where clean drinking water systems have been installed. People live longer, healthier, more productive lives when they are not sick.

Will you help place a clean drinking water system in another community?