​Clean water is both a fundamental spiritual and physical need. Water, with its connective and restorative properties, helps us connect with God's creation and sustain us. In many traditions, water is a sign of new life and rebirth - to let it become polluted with chemicals, trash, and harmful waste is to fail to protect and steward the gift of life which God gave us. Join the faithful around the country as they proclaim the wonders of God's waters. 
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Faith in Action

Statements & Letters

  • Hundreds of faith leaders join together to call for investment in water infrastructure and an end to water utility shutoffs.
  • Faith organizations urged Congress to protect clean water through investments in water infrastructure and a moratorium on water utility shutoffs.​​
  • Rabbi Swartz, COEJL executive director, op-ed on mercury pollution.
  • The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, a Catholic ministry of the Maryknoll religious order, consistently works for protection of the waters of the earth and their equitable distribution. Their statement, 'Water and the Community of Life' offers a glimpse at their important work and the Catholic perspective. ​​​​

Clean Water Act

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Listen to Avery Lamb, Co-Executive Director of Creation Justice Ministries and NRPE partner, explain the importance of the Clean Water Act from a faith perspective. 
Pope Francis' Laudato Si': Water as a Human Right
"​Even as the quality of available water is constantly diminishing, in some places there is a growing tendency, despite its scarcity, to privatize this resource, turning it into a commodity subject to the laws of the market. Yet access to safe drinkable water is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival and, as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights. Our world has a grave social debt towards the poor who lack access to drinking water, because they are denied the right to a life consistent with their inalienable dignity." - LS 30

Programs

Faith and the Common Good:
​Sacredness of Water

Faith and the Common Good is a Canadian interfaith network that works with a diverse group of faith communities to come together around a shared calling to protect our ecosystem. They believe that "water is life; it is hydration, habitat, and health. Our faith traditions teach us to revere this resource, to give thanks when it is abundant and to cherish it when it is scarce." 
Together with the Sacred Water Circle and inspired by the Indigenous teachings, ecology, and worldview, this group is working to bring attention to the sacredness of water and our responsibility to ensure the health and well-being of our waters for generations to come.

Creation Justice Ministries: 
​Water, Holy Water

Creation Justice Ministries put together a powerful resource, 'Water, Holy Water', first published for Earth Day in 2014. The toolkit helps parishes and faith-groups think about water as a sacred gift from God. 

Ohio State University:
​Faithful Earth Stewardship

Under the guidance of Dr. Gregory Hitzhusen, the School of Environment and Natural Resources at Ohio State University is working to understand how faith communities can collaborate and have a positive impact on the environmental challenges that we face today.
One of the major projects from this effort has been the RESTORExchange, a multidisciplinary, publicly available database which organizes and curates existing efforts, publications, tools, and art that live at the intersection of faith and sustainability.