Consider these:

• Thirty percent of the world do not have enough water to drink or wash with

• Two million children are dying every year from water related problems with increasing cases of cholera, dysentery and typhoid.

• Urban sprawling, land clearing, deforestation and pollution are contributing factors to rivers and wetlands are disappearing, ecosystems are destroyed

• Seven billion people in 60 countries will face water shortage by the year 2050

• Presently Africa and the Gaza Strip (Palestine) suffer the most acute water shortages.

In order to combat water shortages and reduce associated diseases MAA embarked on a provision of clean water by constructing water wells and water storage tanks. In the past year and a half over 250 water wells have been constructed while close to fifty water-storage tanks have been built in remote villages. The tanks allow for easy access to clean water at all times whereas previously women walked up to 10km for a bucket of water.

Water wells, tanks and pumps are constructed in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia and Nigeria.