U.S. drilling industry members and two Christian charities donated equipment, supplies and expertise last May to rehabilitate and return a partially-blocked primary water well to full-capacity in Sendafa, Ethiopia. The well and its water are vital to the water quantity, health and wellbeing of Sendafa’s 15,000 residents.
Clean, accessible water — one of life’s basic necessities — saves lives around the world, but in some regions, including Africa, the Caribbean, Central America and South America, villagers walk miles to collect water from a potentially contaminated source. Missionaries improve the villagers’ quality of life by drilling community water wells.
More than 600 million people around the world lack improved drinking water sources, according to a June 2015 UNICEF and World Health Organization (WHO) report on sanitation and drinking water.