This is the final discipline on my list of
'Ten Disciplines for living downstream from Eden' - a proposal for a personal and global water ethic - or what I call a
'Manifesto for Action' at the end of my book.
Eight hundred million people in our world suffer with severe water scarcity; their need is physical and very real. Often, the water they do collect serves them badly and makes them chronically sick.
Click here for a short but powerful 3-minute video from
Charity: Water that tells this story.
Physical thirst is a painful but eloquent mirror to us of the spiritual thirst deep in human souls and human communities – a thirst and a soul-sickness found not only in drought-stricken deserts and ghettos, but in affluent suburbs and tropical resorts as well.
