"Unsexy" Water Projects

"...donors are restricting aid to "sexier" projects such as schools and hospitals – even though the benefits of those are diminished if their recipients have no clean water or toilets."


This is a serious problem.


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alive with springs

"There is intoxication in the waters of contemplation, whose mystery fascinated and delighted the first
Cistercians and whose image found its way into the names of so many of those valley monasteries that stood in forests, on the banks of clean streams, among rocks alive with springs.

These are the waters the world does not know, because it prefers the water of bitterness and contradiction.  These are the waters of peace, of which Christ said: 'He that shall drink of the water that I shall give him, shall not thirst for ever.  But the water that I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.'

These are the Waters of Siloe, that flow in silence"

-Thomas Merton, The Waters of Siloe 

Wildflowers [...to hearken than the fat of rams.]

"...see how they wake without a question
even though the whole world is burning."
-W.S. Merwin, "Rain Light"


I read another poem, or perhaps it was part of this poem that described so eloquently the shattering of the dew as the water droplets release explodingly as one brushes by a leaf or flower blossom. Quietly the rain or dew, the flowers, they obey their creator without a question.

1 Samuel 15:22 (NIV)

 But Samuel replied:
   “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
   as much as in obeying the LORD?
To obey is better than sacrifice,
   and to heed is better than the fat of rams.