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