Here at Jesus Persevered, we want Jesus Christ to literally and spiritually have living water flow from us.  

As we help bring clean drinking water to these people in need across the world, sharing the story of Jesus will enable us to do exactly as this verse says!

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More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in the developing world.3

Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours.1

Of the 60 million people added to the world's towns and cities every year, most move to informal settlements (i.e. slums) with no sanitation facilities.6

780 million people lack access to an improved water source; approximately one in nine people.2

"[The water and sanitation] crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns." 7

An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than the average person in a developing country slum uses for an entire day.7

Over 2.5X more people lack water than live in the United States.2

More people have a mobile phone than a toilet.2,4,5

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1. Estimated with data from Diarhhoea: Why children are still dying and what can be done. UNICEF, WHO 2009
2. Estimated with data from WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation. (2012). Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water, 2012 Update.
3. World Health Organization (WHO). (2008). Safer Water, Better Health: Costs, benefits, and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health; Updated Table 1: WSH deaths by region, 2004.
4. International Telecommunication Union (ITU). (2011). The World in 2011 ICT Facts and Figures
5. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). (2011). State of World Population 2011, People and possibilities in a world of 7 billion
6. UN Water. (2008). Tackling a global crisis: International Year of Sanitation 2008
7. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). (2006). Human Development Report 2006, Beyond Scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis
8. Map data sourced from "Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water, 2010 Update." WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation.