Faith for Earth Programme

In John 4:10, Jesus said, ‘If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.’ In The Holy Quran, The Prophets Chapter 21 verse 30 states: ‘We made from Water Every Thing Living.’ Indeed, water is central to all living things, but also to virtually all development strategies, especially as part of the 2030 Development Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. Water priorities and programmes feature in the strategic plans of many development institutions, public and private, secular and faith-inspired. However, there is a large disconnect between the calls to assure clean water and decent sanitation for all world citizens as a matter of rights and justice, and the realities of complex and often poorly harmonised policies and programmes on the ground.