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Living Waters for the World (LWW) is a mission resource of the Synod of Living Waters of the Presbyterian Church (USA). LWW trains and equips volunteer teams to provide clean water in needy areas throughout the developing world. LWW water systems and educational programs address the niche in world water provisioning in which communities have an adequate and available but contaminated water supply. The LWW training model is a relational one that emphasizes local partners leading health and hygiene training and constructing the clean water system and that their U.S. partners mentor and support them throughout the project. A covenant relationship is established for each water project, involving four or more trips by the U.S. partner to the installation site. LWW water treatment systems are sized for small communities and are usually located in clinics, churches, schools, orphanages, community centers, and hospitals. As of March 2015, Living Waters for the World clean water systems have been installed at 700 sites in 24 countries: Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Kenya, Laos, Madagasgar, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Thailand, Ukraine, United States (Appalachia) and Venezuela. (Map of LWW water installations ) ==History== Living Waters for the World was conceived by Wil Howie, a Presbyterian Church(USA) minister, who believed that the Church could literally bring life-saving, "living" water to people in need throughout the world and was officially recognized as a mission resource of the Presbyterian Church(USA) in 1993. Through 2003, a small number of volunteers had installed 12 systems in Mexico, Haiti and Belize. Recognizing that it would not be able to significantly impact the growing water needs of the countries in which it was active, LWW developed a program to train and equip volunteer teams to install LWW water systems following the principal that, if you teach a person to fish, they can feed themselves for life. The training program, Clean Water U, gave Living Waters for the World a way to dramatically impact the world water crisis by educating teams of volunteers who in turn educate others on health and hygiene issues and how to install water systems that provide safe water to those who lack it. Through the efforts of LWW and other FBOs, NGOs, and humanitarian organizations, in 2012, the number of people who lack access to clean water fell to fewer than 800 million people from 1 billion people estimated by the (World Health Organization ) in 2000. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Living Waters for the World」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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