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The Dalai Lama on Earth Day: COVID-19 is ‘a lesson in universal responsibility’ (RNS) By His Holiness the Dalai Lama

To Fight Coronavirus, Wash Your Hands and Support Clean Water Access Around the World (USA Today) By Susan K Barnett

The important role of water in the fight against COVID-19 (Rotary International) By Ron Denham

For COVID-19, Focus on the Basics: WASH in Healthcare Facilities (SWA blog) By Thomas Boyton 

USGLC COVID-19 Issue Brief

The place of Jesus’ baptism could disappear By EcoPeace

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-giving-guide.html

The Hospitals Where Doctors Can't Wash Their Hands, Devex

Can a toolkit make a difference to WASH and NTDs collaboration? (Global Handwashing blog) By Yael Vellman

Getting WASH into Health Care Facilities: An Urgent Global Health Need (CFR) By Amb. John Simon & Susan K Barnett

A Foundation Helped Bring a Quiet Global Health Crisis Out of the Shadows (Inside Philanthropy) By Dr. Joanne McGriff

Coronavirus a Wake-Up Call for Civil Engineers (ASCE) By Mike Paddock

Health Care Facilities are Everyone’s Frontlines (Global Health NOW) by Dr. Migs Muldrow

Senza acqua non c’è sanità (page 7) By Susan Barnett, Faiths for Safe Water
English translation can be found here.

Bill Frist: Lessons not learned in Congo's Ebola outbreak By Senator Bill Frist

Innovations in Combatting the Hand Hygiene Crisis: A Lesson in Getting Creative By Lindsay Denny, Global Water 2020
Improved water, sanitation and hygiene facilities attract more hospital deliveries  By Proscovia Nakibuuka Mbonye, UNICEF

What More Than 150 Members Of ISIS Taught Us About Water Security, By Dr. Anne Speckhard

World Health Day - select articles and opinions:

https://globalhandwashing.org/lets-make-water-sanitation-and-hygiene-inclusive/

https://stateofbelief.com/segments/healing-water/

https://www.christianpost.com/voice/sanctity-of-life-requires-water.html

WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme Report on WASH in Healthcare Facilities:
World Water Day 2019 - select articles and opinions:
This Powerful Photo Series on Birth Traditions Around the World Sheds Light on the Global Water Crisis

John Snow’s Birthday A Reminder Cholera Is Killing People In 47 Countries By John Oldfield, Global Water 2020

If you're safe from cholera, thank my dad, a plumber (and thank the ancient Romans) By Lindsay Denny, Global Water 2020

Expanding the reach of health advocates to improve WASH in health By Elynn Walter, IRC

This Powerful Photo Series on Birth Traditions Around the World Sheds Light on the Global Water Crisis By Kaitlin Kimont

Acquiescence, Broken Trust and Water Safety in Healthcare Facilities By Marisa Gallegos

Nick Kristof and Bill Gates have a Facebook Live discussion about the #1 invention that has saved more lives than others: The Toilet. Here's their Ode to the Comode!

Where antibiotics are more common than water, superbugs thrive By Ben Stockton, Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Prayer Breakfast a time to remember vital role of American foreign assistance  By Archbishop Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Rev. Samuel Rodriguez Fox News

Amid Neglected Diseases is a Neglected Solution By Helen Hamilton, WaterAid

Collaboration on water, sanitation and hygiene for disease control is possible – here is how By Leah Wohlgemuth, NNN WASH Working Group

Water wars won’t be won on a battlefield By Sen. Bill Frist The Hill

Health is in our hands By Carolyn Moore, secretariat director of the Global Handwashing Partnership The Hill

The Chicken or The Egg: Hand Hygiene Infrastructure vs. Behaviors in Healthcare Facilities By Lindsay Denny Crowd360

Make water a top global priority. It's the best, cheapest way to save lives By Sen. Bill Frist USA Today

Malawi: Time for Action to Ensure All Hospitals, Everywhere Have Water

Clean Hands Count for Frontline Health Workers
https://www.frontlinehealthworkers.org/blog/clean-hands-count-frontline-health-workers

Meeting Mecca: Family Planning is Crucial for Women in the Developing World  By Susan Barnett, Faiths for Safe Water
http://thehill.com/opinion/international/396719-family-planning-is-crucial-for-those-in-the-developing-world

Malawi Superbugs Among Newborns, The Bureau of Investigative Reporting
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/08/health/malawi-superbugs-antimicrobial-resistance-among-newborns-intl/index.html?no-st=1533815448

Handwashing and Midwives — May 5:

Water is Essential by Bill Reilly, former EPA Administrator
http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/386290-clean-water-is-essential-to-health-care-around-the-globe
Clean Water is Health by Her Excellency Mrs. Saraki
https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-clean-water-is-health-92698

World Health Day - April 7:
The World's Hidden Health Crisis By Bruce Wilkinson

WORLD WATER DAY 2018 - March 22:
UN Secretary General announces International Decade of Action on Water
How Well is Philanthropy Tackling One of Humanity's Biggest Problems? Inside Philanthropy
Way to Go Ted Poe By Susan Barnett
Water: A Decade of Bipartisan Success by John Oldfield
Fostering Clean Water Requires Longterm Commitment By Gary Edmonds

Want to Improve Development Outcomes? Anticipate Failures. Here's How. By Susan Davis

A Beer with Bill Gates by Mike Paddock

Whatever Happened To ... Those Farmers Who Needed Shoes? By Michaeleen Doucleff  NPR News

The cost of clean water: $150 billion a year, says World Bank By Sophie Hares Thomson Reuters Foundation

Faith in a Glass of Water The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs

Water Is Global (In)Security Forbes

Water & Teranga On Faith

80 Faith-based National and State Organizations to Congress: Border Wall Proposal Inconsistent with Interfaith Values

What I've learned as a Doctor in Ethiopia: Women and Babies Need Water By Dr. Margaret Muldrow

Cristian:  A Story of Water By Susan Barnett, Founder, Faiths for Safe Water

Faith in a Glass of Water By Brian McLaren and Susan Barnett

World Water Day: 7 Ways to Make a Difference By Susan Barnett, Founder, Faiths for Safe Water

One World Appears in the Bible 722 Times By Gary Edmonds, CEO, Food for the Hungry

Blessed by Water By Susan Barnett and Haik Kocharian

3 Humanitarian Crises The World Needs To Pay More Attention To In 2017 By Michael Bowers,  Vice President of Humanitarian Leadership and Response, Mercy Corps

2017 Is Pivotal for U.S. Leadership on Global Water Security By John Oldfield

Surprise! Our government and Congress do work! By Carolyn Y. Woo, outgoing president & CEO of Catholic Relief Services

In Uganda, a New Synagogue for a Remote Group of Jews by Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service (RNS)

A Plan for Protecting Our Hidden Water Supplies Huffington Post

Hand Pumps Bring Clean Water to Ethiopia USAID

Coca-Cola: We're replenishing all of the water we use CNN Money

Entangled Injustices: Refugees, Water, Human Trafficking By Rev. Cameron Trimble and Susan Barnett

Zika and Sanitation Huffington Post
These are the Heroes Looking out for Brazil's Microcephaly Babies Huffington Post

What You Need to Know About the World's Water Wars National Geographic

Garden of Eden becomes a UNESCO site...and it's all about water 

Company Brings Toilets To Kenya Slums, Turns Waste Into Fertilizer Huffington Post

Setting the Global Table By Rev. Dr. Joel C. Hunter

African women are breaking their backs to get water for their families by Darryl Fears Washington Post

The Bathroom Story No One is Talking About
http://imaworldhealth.org/the-bathroom-story-no-one-is-talking-about/

Water Injustice and the Abrahamic Faiths
http://www.the-platform.org.uk/2016/05/06/water-injustice-and-the-abrahamic-faiths/

60th Anniversary of the Red Sea Parting
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionnow/2016/04/50th-anniversary-of-the-red-sea-parting/

Improving sanitation and hygienic practices are among Islam's top health legacies:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/american-muslim-health-professionals-/contributions-of-islamic-theology-to-public-health_b_9773116.html?ir=Religion?

WORLD WATER DAY 2016:

PATHEOS
FSW's annual "Sermon for World Water" [2-part series]:
Part 1:  http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithforward/2016/03/blessed-by-water-a-sermon-for-world-water-day/
Part 2: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithforward/2016/03/7-ways-to-make-world-water-day-your-first-step-to-a-better-world/

THE HILL CONGRESSIONAL BLOG
FSW co-authored a piece with Brian McLaren. Brian is a very popular, progressive Christian author, inspiring speaker, and all around excellent human being who's traveled the world and knows the value of a decent toilet!
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/273782-water-the-one-symbol-shared-by-all-religions

TIME.com
FSW co-authored a piece with Dr. Christine Sow, an well-known expert in global health and president of the Global Health Council in Washington, DC.
http://time.com/4266928/world-water-day-health/

INTERVIEW WITH JANE GOODALL
I had the incredible honor of interviewing Dr. Jane Goodall about the Global Water Crisis at the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions. You can watch/share: 2-minute clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btfnXj-EYXU&feature=youtu.be
15 second clip: https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=wER6A_qRkKQ

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How Ethiopia Can Overcome the Worst Drought in 50 Years By Ambassador Daniel Speckhard, President, Lutheran World Relief

The Trials and Tribulations of Snow By Susan Barnett, Founder, Faiths for Safe Water

The Silent Violence By Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson, president, Auburn Seminary and Susan Barnett, Founder, Faiths for Safe Water

Pope Francis is Thirsty By Rev. Joel Hunter, Senior Pastor, Northland, A Church Distributed, Florida and Susan Barnett, founder Faiths for Safe Water
 
Instability and Assault on the Poor Requires us to Respond By Ambassador Daniel Speckhard

No Faith Without Water By Rev. Jennifer Crumpton

THE 2015 NOBEL PRIZE REMINDS US HOW IMPORTANT WASH REMAINS TO GLOBAL HEALTH:
Malaria, riverblindness, hookworm...
3 scientists share Nobel Prize for medicine for work on parasitic diseases

Way to go, Mexico! Riverblindness has been eradicated!
Mexico Becomes 3rd Country In World To Eliminate Onchocerciasis

After a New York Times best pick at the NY Fringe Festival, friend of FSW, Sean the Puru, opens at Fringe Festival in Scotland.
Your friends at FSW are flush with pride!

AMAZING PHOTOS THAT ILLUSTRATE WATER INEQUALITY: 
THANK YOU HUFFINGTON POST AND EyeEm

Watch this beautiful testament to water

2015  Parliament of the World’s Religions:
Faiths for Safe Water was honored to participate in the 2015  Parliament of the World’s Religions, October 15-19 in Salt Lake City, Utah. We shared the podium with Dr. Sol Katz, a Parliament Trustee and expert on Food Security. We also had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to interview Dr. Jane Goodall and ask her, among other things, about her take on the global water crisis. The Parliament is the world’s oldest, largest and most inclusive global interfaith gathering, hosting 10,000 global and religious leaders, grassroots activists, and practitioners from 50 traditions and more than 80 countries. The goal is to build bridges -- together -- to a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

Why a Toilet is a Great Birthday Present By Susan Barnett, Faiths for Safe Water

Way to Go Poe By Susan Barnett, Faiths for Safe Water

HAPPY WORLD WATER DAY 2015!
The One Sacred Gift All Religions Share By Rev. Brian McLaren, On Faith, March 19, 2015
5 Ways You Can Save Lives By Rev. Brian McLaren, On Faith, March 20, 2015

Congress: Good Things Can Happen, and That Inspires Hope By Malcolm Morris, Chairman, Millennium Water Alliance

The Missing Element in the Fight Against Ebola By Rev Jennifer Crumpton

Ebola’s Missing Solution By The Very Reverend James Kowalski

As the First Female Handcycle Ironman Champion, I Want to Cross Another Finish Line By Minda Dentler Huffington

Simple solution to girls' education By Maureen Shaw

A must read: Toilets prevent Rape

Something to Celebrate: America's Lifesaving Work By Sam Daley-Harris, founder, RESULTS

Water and the Angel and Death By Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Sr. Pastor, Trinity Church of Christ, Chicago

Water Solutions: A Q&A with Matt Damon and Gary White (Stanford Medicine Magazine)

Clean water and soap ‘boost growth’ in young children (BBC)

No Menstrual Hygiene For Indian Women Holds Economy Back (Bloomberg)

Sanitation over HIV fixation (Al Jazeera)

Calling All Young People: The Water Crisis Needs You (Huffington Post)

Gender Crimes Haunt Women Who Head to Field for Nature’s Call (Times of India)

A Surprising Barrier To Clean Water: Human Nature (NPR)

Water key factor in U.S. approach to better world The Times and Democrat, South Carolina

Politics stops at water by Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and Ted Poe (R-Texas)

Global water crisis can be cured with action by Dr. Mark Hartman

For Easter:
A Fountain of Faith By Rev. Jennifer Crumpton and Rev. Richard Cizik
For Passover:
The Next Time You see the Red Sea Part By Rabbi Jack Bemporad 

WORLD WATER DAY 2013
SEE OUR FRONT PAGE "SERMON FOR WORLD WATER DAY" @ HUFFINGTON POST/RELIGION
OUR FRIENDS AT THE COUNCIL for a PARLIAMENT of the WORLD'S RELIGIONS ARE ON BOARD WITH US ON WORLD WATER DAY!

Faiths for Safe Water: In the Spotlight at Odyssey Network

Finding the Living Waters By the Very Reverend James Kowalski, Dean of St. John the Divine 

On Mawlid, A New Way to Honor the Prophet By Imam Magid, President of the Islamic Society of North America

Grammy-nominated vocalist, Kenna and his intrepid team made a climb of a lifetime, all in the name of water. See their pics and more from Mount Kilamanjaro! Summit on the Summit

Keeping projects up and running is half the battle. So Google Impact Awards is funding CHARITY:WATER to develop sensor technology that will detect whether water is flowing at any of its projects, at any given time, anywhere in the world! This award will help charity:water further advance transparency and sustainability in the WASH sector.
Click here for more info: www.charitywater.org/blog/google-impact-award/

WANNA KNOW HOW MUCH WATER YOU USE?
CHECK OUT THIS APP, CREATED BY ONE INCREDIBLY INNOVATIVE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT NAMED ABHA NATH.
[thanks Abha!]  http://goo.gl/wfOyQ

You think the global water crisis is somebody else's problem?
The groundbreaking documentary, LAST CALL AT THE OASIS, brings the problem home to the U.S. Yes, that's US.
"Last Call at the Oasis"
TAKE ACTION:  www.takepart.com/lastcall

WORLD WATER DAY 2012: Faith leaders unite around Water at the historic Riverside Church in NYC
Three esteemed leaders from the three Abrahamic faiths joined together at the historic Riverside Church in New York City to call on the faiths to unite around this singular symbol share by all, and make water the source of health and life for ALL. Human existence is about much more than water, but never about less. From birth until death, the faiths share this recognition in ritual, symbol, and need. As faith leaders, they stood  together in unity around this symbol shared by all faiths, declaring, we are here because together, we are going to launch something powerful.
Sister Laila Muhammad, daughter of W.D. Muhammad, Chicago
Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Center for Interreligious Understanding, New Jersey
The Rev. Dr. Arnold Isadore Thomas, Minister of Education, The Riverside Church of the City of New York

A very special thank you to two inspiring performers who performed at our Riverside Church interfaith event:
Rondi Charleston: Land of Galilee
more about Rondi at: www.rondicharleston.com
Anna Huckabee Tull: Sweet Water
more about Anna at: www.customcraftedsongs.com

WORLD WATER DAY 2012 "Sermon for World Water"in Huffington Post

WORLD WATER DAY 2012: HILLARY CLINTON SPEAKS ABOUT WATER AND SECURITY IN WASHINGTON, DC
"...Last year, I called on the intelligence community to conduct a global assessment of the impact water could have and was having on our national security. Today, the National Intelligence Council released the unclassified version of its report on Global Water Security. You can go online, read it for yourself, see how imperative clean water and access to water is to future peace, security, and prosperity, globally. I think its fair to say the intelligence communitys findings are sobering..."
Read her remarks and see her landmark speech here

FAITH FOR SAFE WATER MAKES HISTORY
WORLD WATER DAY 2010:  FAITH LEADERS GATHER AT THE FIRST U.S. WORLD WATER DAY
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HEADQUARTERS
WASHINGTON, DC:

Imam Syed Rafiq Naqvi, Chairman, Islamic Information Center
Imam Syed Rafiq Naqvi was born in Lucknow, India where he pursued  Masters degrees in Psychology, Philosophy and Economics and  Islamic Theology and Islamic Jurisprudence, as well as studies in comparative religions.  He  serves as the Chairman of IIC, Islamic Information Center, founded in 2002, to create a better understanding about Islam among different faiths, government, and the media. He is Imam of the Jaferia Islamic Center in Burtonsville, Maryland and works on numerous humanitarian projects in the US and other countries iwth the Universal Islamic Foundation and the Imam Financial Corporation. Together with his wife, they also address issues of women's equality.

The Most Reverend Archbishop Vicken Aykazian, Armenian Church of America
Born in Siirt, Turkey, Archbishop Aykazian was ordained a bishop in 1992 and in 2007, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians elevated him to the rank of archbishop. In addition to his current leadership responsibilities in the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, Archbishop Aykazian’s diverse professional achievements include Country Director for the Fund for Armenian Relief (FAR) in their Yerevan, Armenia office (1997-1999) and Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of Switzerland (1992-1996). With a keen interest in the ecumenical movement, in 2005, he was unanimously elected as President of the National Council of Churches (NCC) and he is a member of the Central Committee as well as the Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches. In March 2009, Archbishop Aykazian was appointed to President Obama’s Advisory Committee on Inter-Religious Affairs. The Archbishop earned a Ph.D in History from the Armenian Academy of Sciences, completed Ph.D. course requirements at Fribourg Catholic University in Switzerland for a second Ph.D in Theology and continues to work on his doctoral dissertation at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He received a Bachelor of Divinity from Kings College in London, England, studied pastoral theology at St. Augustine’s College in Canterbury, England, and attended the Armenian Theological Seminary in Jerusalem and the Holy Cross Armenian Seminary in Istanbul, Turkey.
He is the 2009 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

The Very Reverend Dr. James A. Kowalski, Dean, The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
The Very Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski is the 9th and current dean of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York. He was elected soon after 9/11 and just before a devastating fire struck the Cathedral. The Cathedral has been undergoing restoration and was rededicated on November 30, 2008. Dean Kowalski was recruited to ordained ministry by the Rockefeller “Trial Year” Fellowship in 1973, when he graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.  Since his ordination in 1978, he has also served parishes in Newtown, Hartford, and Darien, Connecticut.  He is an inaugural Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a Fellow of the American Leadership Forum.  He is member of the Board of Overseers for St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Medical Center and a Trustee of Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. In 2002, the Dean was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by Berkeley Divinity School at Yale.

Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Executive Director, Center for Interreligious Understanding
Rabbi Bemporad heads the US-based nonprofit Center for Interreligious Understanding (CIU), which promotes open dialogue, mutual respect, and theological understanding of the common foundations shared by the world's religions. He also  serves as Professor of Interreligious Studies at the Vatican's Angelicum University in Rome. Rabbi Bemporad is internationally recognized for his diplomatic skill and leadership in matters of religious understanding and reconciliation. He has had numerous personal audiences with Pope John Paul II and among his extensive work with Vatican leadership, he was the primary writer of the historical Prague Accord (the first time the Vatican asked forgiveness for past acts of anti-Semitism); and worked with Cardinals Willebrands and Cassidy to help secure full diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the State of Israel. Shortly before Pope John Paul’s death, Rabbi Bemporad and two other Rabbis offered a blessing of the Pope, in recognition of the Holy See’s historic steps to improve relations between Catholics and Jews. Rabbi Bemporad was on hand to greet Pope Benedict on his first Papal visit to Israel. Bemporad’s work reaches beyond Rome. He helped lead an interfaith delegation to Iran with Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, then Archbishop of Washington DC, to address religious tolerance with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami and other key Iranian leadership. He served as Chairman of the Interreligious Affairs Committee of the Synagogue Council of America, where he has represented Orthodox/Conservative/ Reform rabbinical and lay bodies at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Council of Churches, the Vatican, the World Council of Churches, and the national and international branches of the Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopal, and Baptist churches. He led an historic trip of US Imams to the concentrations camps Auschwitz and Dachau where the Muslims leaders emotionally knelt in prayer; and has been outspoken against Islamophobia in the US and abroad.

Among his many awards for his efforts to foster interreligious understanding, Bemporad received the prestigious Luminosa Award of the Focolare Movement, the Peace and Tolerance Award by the Interfaith Dialog Center (Turkish Muslims), and was honored by the Friends of the Pope John Paul II Foundation. Fleeing Italy just prior to WWII at the age of 5, Bemporad has dedicated his career to improving relations among Christians, Muslims, and Jews worldwide.

Contact:
Susan Barnett
susankbarnett@gmail.com