Walk for Water Relief 

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The Water Crisis in West Africa and India: Walking Miles...

A Call for Urgent Action to bring relief to the distressed. 

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Text S19131 to 49514 or click link: https://runsignup.com/ts/S19131 to register before 11 pm CST. 

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Water scarcity is one of the most severe challenges facing West Africa and India, impacting millions of lives. In West Africa, prolonged droughts and inadequate infrastructure have led to widespread food insecurity, forcing communities to rely on unsafe water sources. Similarly, India faces extreme water stress, with drying reservoirs and declining groundwater levels threatening agriculture and livelihoods.

The consequences are devastating—poor rural communities bear the brunt of the crisis, suffering from waterborne diseases, economic hardship, and forced migration. If left unaddressed, this crisis will continue to deepen inequalities and hinder sustainable development.

Solutions for a Water-Secure Future

• Investing in Sustainable Water Infrastructure: Governments and organizations must prioritize building resilient water systems, improving irrigation, and expanding rainwater harvesting projects.

• Promoting Efficient Water Usage: Educating communities on conservation practices and investing in technology-driven solutions can reduce wastage.

• Strengthening Policy & Governance: Effective regulations and fair water distribution policies can ensure that vulnerable populations have equitable access to clean water.

• Enhancing Climate Resilience: Innovative solutions like desalination, wastewater recycling, and afforestation can mitigate climate-related water shortages.

Water is life, and safeguarding it should be a global priority.

The time for action is now! 🌍💧

#WaterCrisis #SustainableFuture

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Our work focuses mostly on the less privileged bottom poor living on less than $1 a day.

As a college professor at the Federal University of Technology Owerri, I had no running water in my home when I relocated to Aba, Nigeria during my sabbatical leave in 1990. About a year later a truck nearly killed my first son who went to fetch water about half a mile across the street. He got knocked off the road as he almost finished crossing a busy highway with his precious water wasted.

I immediately invested in a 1000 gallon tank and resolved not to send my kids to fetch water but started buying bulk water from water tankers.

 

Today I ask you to join the campaign for “Clean Water” to help the bottom millions by booking time with an RNM board member to see how you could get more involved with our mission and vision. Simply use the "Contact Us" page to say "I'm in"

 

If you only wish to make a donation, consider making it a recurrent monthly support. For example a $30, or more monthly contribution could supply water to a family for 1 year, and thus help make their water crisis history. Also, partners can sponsor a community rehab or build a new well in honor or memory of a loved one or donate their birthday gifts and such to become an RNM Advocate or Relief Ambassador, a recurrent donor or committed member and partner - click here to activate: YOUR MEMBERSHIP TO OUR WATER CRISIS RELIEF CLUB - to keep clean water flowing for the bottom billion.

 

May God bless you for sharing the living water with the least of these. (Matt. 25:40).

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By Dr. A. Sunny Okorie

(President/Co-Founder)

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Are cell phones more important than water?

Absolutely not!!

 

I'm thinking about the global impact of mobile phones and the transformations it has brought to Africa and Nigeria with respect to how we communicate almost instantly these days... and how we can change the mindset that water delivery should remain free, especially in poor rural villages?

Yet many of these rural poor own cell phones and still manage to buy by recharge cards for cell phone credits for talk time or Internet and Facebook access?

 

Here are a few stats to consider:

The world population of cell phones to people in 2017 is 4.77 B cells to 7.5 B people or population.

USA 327.5 m cells to 318 m people - pay water bills

China 1.32 B cells to 1.37 B people - pay for water use

India 1.13 B cells to 1.28 B people - pay for water in many parts since 2015

Nigeria 167.4 m cells to 177.2 m people

South Africa 59.4 m cells to 50.6 m people

Kenya 28.1 m cells to 42 m people

Ethiopia 18 m cells to 85 m people

Cuba 1.3 m cells to 11.2 m people - they pay tariffs for water use since 1997.

To learn more: https://goo.gl/SW1xgM

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