Living Water

A lack of clean drinking water

Water quality in Indonesia is poor. Tap water is not safe to drink and, like water from wells, it is polluted. The biggest pollutants are bacteria from faeces. The only options are to buy water or to boil polluted water before use. That has to be done the right way, or it still poses a health risk.

The lack of clean drinking water is a major problem. A quarter of all children under 5 suffer from diarrhoea, the number one cause of death among children in Indonesia. Every year 100,000 babies die of diarrhoea.

The poorest part of the Indonesian population is hit hardest and has clearly less access to clean drinking water.

Man by a muddy stream holding up a packaged water filter

From water for life to Living Water

The Living Water project provides households with a sustainable, affordable and safe supply of drinking water. The water filters, made in the Netherlands, are distributed in Indonesia by our local colleagues. This brings them into contact with groups of people, whom they teach how to use the water filters and about basic hygiene. This builds relationships, and the conversation is not only about clean drinking water, but also about the Living Water.

Man next to a water filter, with a blue hose running from a tub of water to a jug

The water filters

The AQUALogic water filters come from Innologic. They developed the water filters with the vision that they bring people not only clean drinking water, but also the living water Jesus speaks of.

For just 24 euros you help a family get clean drinking water, and the opportunity to get to know the gospel.

Donate a water filter

Blue water filter in a fleece cover, with a coiled white hose and a carrying cord

More projects

Farmer in a pointed straw hat in a ripening rice field

Adopt a Worker

Support Indonesian missionaries in their living costs, so they can bring the gospel where foreign missionaries cannot go.

A group of children and adults in front of a wooden building with a corrugated metal roof

Wana tribe

Education, farming and the gospel for the Wana, a predominantly animist tribe in the interior of Central Sulawesi.