Water.
Should we buy bottled?
Should we buy bottled for $0.89? How do we know that’s not just bottled tap? And should we drink from the tap? Didn’t you read something about minerals? Does bottled water expire? I heard something else about chlorine. Then I read something else about Fluoride? And isn’t that in our toothpaste? Let me get this straight so it’s good in our toothpaste bad in our water? Should we buy it bottled in glass? Should we buy it bottled in plastic? What if we boil it? Mama says boiling kills everything? But the Teflon in the pans might get into the water? One time I was in Mississippi and the water was brown. I drank it. In Manhattan I found some water selling for $20 a bottle. I passed on it. What? I had to Google that. $20. Turns out it’s Charity. That’s really the name, Charity: Water. Whoo, charity ain’t $0.10 a day any more, huh?
At Starbucks they sell Ethos Water. Five cents from every bottle sold goes to “support humanitarian water programs in Africa, Asia and Latin America.” Then there’s the one I’ve been drinking lately, Volvic. Volvic has teamed up with Unicef. “Volvic North America announced the launch of the “Drink 1, Give 10” campaign in the U.S. and Canada on April 1. From April 1 to August 31 in both 2008 and 2009, for each liter of Volvic bottled water purchased in the U.S. and Canada, Volvic will make a donation to enable UNICEF provide at least ten liters of clean drinking water to children in two districts of Benishangul Gumuz in western Ethiopia. More than half the population in these rural districts lack access to safe water and sanitation facilities.” Yes, my people. Wouldn’t it be funny if for Mother’s Day you just handed your mom a bottle of water? What would she say? Mine might actually like it. She’s convinced that FIJI Water is great. I think I could sell her on charity water on Charity Water. However, I’d probably have to pull out facts, figures, references and cross-continental phone calls to beneficiaries as defense for spending that kind of money on one bottle of water. Meanwhile, I know one thing she can’t argue with, that’s Oprah. For some reason, we trust Oprah. I do. I’ll admit it. So when I came across an article about a village completely ran by WOMEN in rural Kenya I was amazed to find out that they needed water too--“The women walk miles to a muddy, disease-and crocodile-infested river for their drinking water—putting a desperately needed clean-water system at the very top of a growing "To-Do" list.” You can read more about this in this month's O Magazine.
At Starbucks they sell Ethos Water. Five cents from every bottle sold goes to “support humanitarian water programs in Africa, Asia and Latin America.” Then there’s the one I’ve been drinking lately, Volvic. Volvic has teamed up with Unicef. “Volvic North America announced the launch of the “Drink 1, Give 10” campaign in the U.S. and Canada on April 1. From April 1 to August 31 in both 2008 and 2009, for each liter of Volvic bottled water purchased in the U.S. and Canada, Volvic will make a donation to enable UNICEF provide at least ten liters of clean drinking water to children in two districts of Benishangul Gumuz in western Ethiopia. More than half the population in these rural districts lack access to safe water and sanitation facilities.” Yes, my people. Wouldn’t it be funny if for Mother’s Day you just handed your mom a bottle of water? What would she say? Mine might actually like it. She’s convinced that FIJI Water is great. I think I could sell her on charity water on Charity Water. However, I’d probably have to pull out facts, figures, references and cross-continental phone calls to beneficiaries as defense for spending that kind of money on one bottle of water. Meanwhile, I know one thing she can’t argue with, that’s Oprah. For some reason, we trust Oprah. I do. I’ll admit it. So when I came across an article about a village completely ran by WOMEN in rural Kenya I was amazed to find out that they needed water too--“The women walk miles to a muddy, disease-and crocodile-infested river for their drinking water—putting a desperately needed clean-water system at the very top of a growing "To-Do" list.” You can read more about this in this month's O Magazine.
Geez, this liquid, that we here in the USA take for granted, folks around the world don’t have or they have it but it’s not fit to drink. Puts a whole new perspective on worrying about tap or bottled doesn’t it? Well, at the end of the article I saw the most beautiful unique-looking pieces of jewelry—bracelets. Come to find out these bracelets are going towards funding that clean water system. And so, decisions…a bottle of water or a bracelet? Well, I don’t knock the $20 bottles of water—but for me, I think the bracelet ranging from $28 -$70 are the better buy especially for Mother’s Day. I wear a bracelet around my wrist that garners many questions. And I’ll talk about that later. But for now let’s give honor and glory to God for providing us with clean water and for providing us with a heart that won’t let us anymore partake of it without keeping in mind our brothers and sisters who are without. Let us ask HIM to give us the motivation to share this information with others. And let us, do our part, if only in prayer—(that’s free)—perhaps with our mothers this Mother’s Day in support of our people. Just because they are here and we are there—it does not make us any better or them any less important* Right?
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