Helping to solve the world water crisis

The global water crisis claims 3.4 million lives each year. This means 388 people die every hour from waterborne illness.  44% of those that die are children. If a child is dying every 21 seconds, then surely this is a crisis that can no longer be ignored. Through a unique partnership with local communities in need, Disciples4Water and our partner churches throughout the United States, are addressing the crisis by establishing and training local water well drilling teams as entrepreneurial businesses to drill and maintain water wells in their local communities.

We provide project teams from our partnership to work in these local communities on water related initiatives focused on healthcare, education and agriculture. The local communities invest money and identify the men and women who make up the drill teams, and coordinate with Disciples4Water on the planning and budgeting of efforts and needs. Disciples4Water, in turn purchases equipment and tools to establish the teams, and then invests in these teams through funding of ongoing material purchases and project teams showing our support of the local community. Water4 provides the drilling technology and training for the local drill teams established through Disciples4Water. Water4’s unique approach to solving the world’s water crisis provides a drilling technique that is entirely manual and sustainable; and as such is portable to any region in the world where water can be reached within approximately 100 feet of the surface.