Clean water to Earthquake Survivors

Since the earthquake in Haiti, The Water Team has raised $60,000 and helped Lifewater Canada with their relief work:

immediately shipped bags of water for the earthquake survivors,
purchased a drill rig for the Haiti drill team; and
drilled a water well in Godin Town.

The year is young and we’re proud that because of the generosity of the [...]

Our plans in Haiti for the next year

The earthquake hit Haiti five weeks ago.  270,000 Haitians were killed. Lifewater was already in Haiti and immediately started trucking in water to the survivors in Port-au-Prince. Members of The Water Team responded immediately with donations to the Haitian team so they could, distribute BioSand filters to street corners and started repairing the earthquake damaged [...]

Deadline for doubling donations: Friday

The deadline for having your donation doubled is February 12th - this Friday .  If you have already donated (and an incredible number have)  THANK YOU!!!
If you are planning on making a donation this is the best time to do it. Send a cheque made out to “Lifewater Canada” to the address below (to arrive [...]

14 Wells Working in Haiti!

It’s been  2 1/2 weeks since the terrible earthquake in Haiti.  The Lifewater team has already done so much to help the survivors. They have also finished their assessment and have a plan of action.
What they’ve done since Jan 12th
- completed 6 water wells that were partially completed before the quake
- drilled 4 new water [...]

Members of The Water Team are busy collecting money so that Lifewater can help the survivors in Haiti.

We’ve all seen the news casts and the terrible situation there - the survivors need food and water and medicine. To date we have raised almost $25,000.   Lifewater is delivering it, thanks to the money we’ve raised!

Jim Gehrels a Senior Hydrogeologist with the Ontario Ministry of Environment and volunteer President of Lifewater.ca and Les Babock  [...]

Matching dollars is saving lives

We have just heard that the members of the Lifewater drill team in Haiti all survived the earthquake and their equipment is intact.  Thousands of Haitians are without clean water right now.  Our top priority is to help the survivors continue to survive the added hardships of lack of water, dehydration, disease and infections that [...]


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  • Water Facts

    • • 1.1 billion people don't have safe water
    • • 80% of child sickness and death is from unsafe water
    • • Every 15 seconds a child dies from a water-related illness
    • • 30,000 people die daily from unclean water
    • • There are Solutions
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    • The Water Team
    • #250-4438 w. 10th Ave.
    • Vancouver, B.C. V6R 4R8
    • Canada
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