Every day when I sit down on my toilet my eyes catch the phrase, Did you know that $1 can provide clean water to an African for one year? It's hard to ignore. I put up the poster there at eye-level a few months ago. Presumably anyone who has sat down on our toilet has seen this poster.

I've been thinking about water more and more lately. Maybe cuz of our cracked kitchen faucet and how it now spews water from its spout as a combination of a steady stream, shower and projectile all at once. It makes for an interesting dishwashing time. Water seems to be one of those natural resources that has multiple functions. It hydrates my body as my drink of choice. It helps plants to grow (our three plants have been growing insanely well, I might add). It cleans my car, my clothes, my body and just about anything else that needs cleansing. It's recreational - we swim in it, make a sport out of it. It is home to a vast array of creatures, like Nemo and Willy and Flotsam and Jetsam.

Today I boiled some water to make tea. There happened to be some water in the kettle already, and not knowing when that was from, I poured it out into the sink. For some reason when I did that, everything started going slow-mo. I watched the clear stream of water hit the sink and slowly seep down the drain. A thought slowly entered my mind, something along the lines of, Why are you letting this water go down the drain when it can be used for something else? I didn't stop though, and just stood there watching.

There's plenty of water to go around here in the states. Seems like it'll never run out. I can't fathom what it would be like if it ever did. And it probably won't. Not in my lifetime anyways. The thing is, there are places in this world where water is not bountiful. Where water... clean water does not flow. At all. There are people who suffer because they have no access to clean water. In fact, they die. Every day.

I can't save the world - obviously, in any way, shape or form. But I can do a little something about someone getting some clean water. Just to drink. Just to sip on some clean water that I throw away every day in some capacity. To have a chance at life. To have a chance at life.