World Water Week

Every year since 1991, World Water Week has centred on water cooperation, for international peace and security in the broadest sense.

This year, from 25–29 August, the theme, Bridging Borders: Water for a Peaceful and Sustainable Future, asks us to recognise the regional and global interconnectivity of communities and nations, and underscores the collaborative effort needed to achieve a peaceful and sustainable future.

In the West Bank, our brothers and sisters face severe water scarcity. Despite the fact that Bethlehem sits on one of the largest aquifers in the area, most families are receiving a mains water supply only two days a month.

To help the most vulnerable families cope with this situation across the West Bank, the charity Friends of the Holy Land engages in work with Christian professionals to provide a solution that they cannot afford, replacing old, rusty, unhygienic water tanks with new ones large enough to hold a month’s supply and solar powered equipment to heat and pump the water around the home for 48 families.

As well as improving the hygiene and health of the vulnerable families whose homes are improved, these projects also provide much needed work to the equipment suppliers, site managers and contractors who are completing the wells and installations.

In this ongoing war, these Christian businesses have been devastated as construction activity has stalled due to the uncertainty and lack of income experienced by all.

Learn more and support these works here: https://bit.ly/4ctHqbO