Just Add Water

Just Add WaterBy: Hailey & Her Kitty

Why Do Humans Need Water?Humans need to drink water to survive. Your body is approximately 60 percent water, your brain is 70 percent water, and your lungs are nearly 90 percent water.

Humans need water for cooking, manufacturing, cleaning, bathing, watering plants, and drinking.

CATS NEED WATER TOO!!

Where are the greatest shortages of water?

The five countries with the greatest water shortages (as of 2014) are, Sudan, Niger, Somalia, Mauritania, and Iraq.

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A Long Walk to WaterSalva Dut, a former “Lost Boy of Sudan”, wanted the people of South Sudan to have fresh, clean water. However, during the November-to-May dry season, the water would dry up. Millions of South Sudanese people had to leave their homes to search for water. Some Sudanese had to abandon their homes and move to where there was water. Others, usually women and children, are forced to walk miles every day to get water from marshes, ditches, and hand-dug wells. This water is often contaminated with parasites and bacteria which can cause pain, sickness, and even death, especially among infants and children. This yearly hunt for water prevents the Sudanese villages from building schools, markets, and medical clinics. When women and children are forced to walk up to eight hours a day for water they are unable to do anything else.

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Salva Dut’s OrganizationSalva developed an organization called Water for South Sudan. He dedicated himself to rebuilding his country. He lives full time in South Sudan and works closely with the government and local leaders to drill wells that provide fresh water.

Safe water brings new hope and opportunities to South Sudan’s people, empowering them to change their lives.

Water for Life. The Bible speaks of a different kind of water, “life-giving water”. At John 4:14 it says, “Whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty at all, but the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water bubbling up to impart everlasting life.”

Jesus’ words indicate that “living water” symbolizes taking in knowledge from God, by reading his word the Bible. This knowledge can make it possible for humans to live forever as we can see at John 17:3; “This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.”

Each year, Jehovah’s Witnesses in more than 239 lands are spending nearly two billion hours helping people to take in life-giving knowledge of the Bible.

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How Many Jehovah’s Witnesses are in Sudan and Niger?

There are 574 Jehovah’s Witnesses in Sudan.

There are 294 Jehovah’s Witnesses in Niger.

An Assembly in a Refugee Camp One of the refugee camps that Salva Dut lived in was called Kakuma, located in Kenya.

Sometime in 2004, Jehovah’s Witnesses held an assembly in the refugee camp. 95 people attended.

The assembly was held in a training center. Drawings on the walls spoke of the horrors of refugee life, but the spirit in the hall that day was one of hope.