 The new ELCA WORLD HUNGER: LIFE-GIVING WATER bulletin highlights programs that provide safe water systems to communities and families around the world.
Read about the primary school of Phuc Thuan in Vietnam and a new clean-water system that has improved the health of children there. Learn how a gift from the ELCA World Hunger Appeal helped build an irrigation system for an entire farming community in the mountains of Peru. Find out what your gifts made possible in the Central African Republic where waterborne diseases run rampant.
This bulletin features the Amos 5:24 verse: "Let justice roll down like waters...".
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Water Facts and Water-Saving Tips
Use this handy one-page, reproducible sheet in adult forums, temple talks, or cut and paste text straight into your bulletin to help educate others about the need for clean water. This provides a nice supplement to the new "ELCA World Hunger: Life-Giving Water" bulletin. [More facts about hunger]
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Issue brief on water and water fact sheet
Read this file from the ELCA's Advocacy department. From this page, you can download a PDF version. |
 Water & Justice Reproducible Stories
Share these justice- and water-related stories throughout the church year to highlight the life-saving efforts made possible by our gifts to the ELCA World Hunger Appeal and ELCA Disaster Response. This resource is part of the World Hunger Resource Packet.
DOWNLOAD all stories (2.0 MB)  ORDER stories online (free) |
LifeLines newsletter:
 An issue (PDF) of LifeLines, the quarterly newsletter of ELCA World Hunger, focused on access to clean water. Articles cover topics such as:
- Water access and pollution in Chile and Peru
- "Where there's a well, there's a way"
- Questioning Coca-Cola's water-extraction methods
- Columns from the Appeal director and Program director, and more
Go to water-themed newsletter (PDF) |
Personal Water-Use Calculator
The city of Tampa, Florida, offers a form where you can estimate your daily water use. Try it out--you might be surprised how much water you use every day!
Personal Water-Use Calculator |
Lutheran World Information: special report on water
 Lutheran World Information, the information and news service of the Lutheran World Federation, devoted an issue (number nine in 2006, titled “Waters of Life”) of its regular newsletter to water. Click here to download a PDF version of this report.
Give the gift of water to people in the world who lack access to clean water through the ELCA Good Gifts catalog
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World Water Day
 "World Water Day is an international day of observance and action to draw attention to the plight of the more than 1 billion people world wide that lack access to clean, safe drinking water..."
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Water exercise cards
 PDF [Copy the first two pages front-to-back, repeat with pages 3-4 and 5-6. ]
These water exercises are a great way to get your congregation or group engaged in physical activities that symbolize the importance of water, access to clean water, and conserving water. You might want to wear a bathing suit!
World Hunger Facts
Find facts about access to safe drinking water (1 in 6 people lacks safe drinking water) and about world hunger in general. Go to World Hunger Facts. |
"Spring of Living Water" article from
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Women of the ELCA: "Women and water" resources
"The Sixth Triennial Convention asked Women of the ELCA everywhere to take the lead in identifying and educating about water issues where they live. [Check out] the items [on this page] for background information, ideas for building water awareness efforts at home, and educational and worship resources..." [Read more] |