A chance to think differently

We hope you all had a good time with family and your love ones as you celebrated and remembered the nativity of the savior. Also, we wish you a good end of the year with lots of blessings and new plans in God for the year to come.

In the year 2013 we were able to participate in more than 5 water well projects to provide water to villages in the amazon, but in the village Progreso (in Colombia) we had some difficulties and this made me think about several questions like:

Where does the water we consume come from?

What would happen if the main cities of our country lack water for a week?

How could we save water and help others to have that water ?
Well, there were many questions.

Let's imagine some of our cities without water for a few days.

Lima, Perú has approximately 9 million inhabitants

Sao Pablo, Brasil, approximately 20 million

Bogota, Colombia, almost 9 million

New York,  US 19 million

They are big cities! It would be a state of caos, everybody trying to get the reserves, water bottles, tanks, etc... we prefer not to imagine this.

Less than 1% of water is available for almost 7 billion people. Let's go to a more interesting fact:
Have you ever wondered how much you invest in the water you drink?

Usually when we leave the house to go to work, or to the school, university or to do sports or just to walk, normally we get thirsty and if it is a warm day, we will get thirsty faster. We have to satisfy our thirst and the easiest way is to buy a bottle of water, how much do you pay for it? The average price for a bottle of water is between 1 and 2 dollars, 90% of the total cost of a bottle of water in a store is more about different elements than water: bottle, transportation, distribution, advertisement… “the bottle and the labeling take the biggest portion of the total cost. The price for water itself is between 1 and 2% of the final price, it means that it is "significative"

For this new year we want to offer you an invitation and at the same time a challenge.

If you have access to drinking water and do not have to pay for it, we invite you to save the money you would spend in water and donate it for a water project. Let's do it! We encourage you to participate and to share your experience with us, we will definitely tell you to whom we are going to bring Water & Life

Water and Life & Wine to Water

Part of the team of Water & Life was planning what we would do the rest of the year. We made a pause and began to talk about the everyday of our lives and someone made ​​a comment about a story he had heard.
She was an African American woman who worked at the home of wealthy people , she began to wonder : What is the difference between a poor and a rich, because the rich gets money and the poor get no money?

She noticed that the rich and poor could eat the same, wear the same clothes, same shoes, the beds were very similar. The difference was very little, almost everything was the same; only that makes the difference? It was the question of the day.
She began detailing every movement of her boss and only noticed a small difference. Her boss had a TV at home, but when the family members arrived they payed little attention to it. They spent time in reading books, most of the free time was to read, unlikely her family they spent time watching television, that was the big difference.

This woman forbade her children to watch more than two TV shows a week and instead demanded that every week they had to read two books from the public library and submit them to her with the respective summaries of these books.
The mother told her children "read many books and someday you will be on television".

After hearing this story everyone at the meeting laughed for several minutes and we joked about spending more time reading, then maybe one day we would be on television.

Not even 6 months had passed when a great part of the team of water & life were on camera before one of the most recognized TV channels worldwide. Water and Life explained on camera to CNN all their work in the Amazon in South America.
We had not read many books and soon we were going to be on TV! Thanks to the preparation and hard work of more than 10 years providing this precious liquid. We were sure we were doing what God was asking of us which was to continue our work to provide WATER and most importantly... LIFE.

Surely this was what Benjamin Carson's mother wanted to teach, the child was motivated to change a habit of television for reading. That work, through consistence and perseverance , brought results at some point in our lives.

We invite you to see the CNN special on December the 15th at 8:00 pm or on December 22, on CNN or CNN INTERNATIONAL IN SPANISH .

We leave you with a question. What custom or habit could you change for your benefit and also for others?          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJtAaKTq3Pg