History
Living Waters for the World was conceived by Wil Howie, a Presbyterian Church(USA) minister, who believed that the Church could literally bring life-saving, "living" water to people in need throughout the world and was officially recognized as a mission resource of the Presbyterian Church(USA) in 1993.
Through 2003, a small number of volunteers had installed 12 systems in Mexico, Haiti and Belize. Recognizing that it would not be able to significantly impact the growing water needs of the countries in which it was active, LWW developed a program to train and equip volunteer teams to install LWW water systems following the principal that, if you teach a person to fish, they can feed themselves for life.
The training program, Clean Water U, gave Living Waters for the World a way to dramatically impact the world water crisis by educating teams of volunteers who in turn educate others on health and hygiene issues and how to install water systems that provide safe water to those who lack it.
Through the efforts of LWW and other FBOs, NGOs, and humanitarian organizations, in 2012, the number of people who lack access to clean water fell to fewer than 800 million people from 1 billion people estimated by the World Health Organization in 2000.
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