Hello, and welcome to
Health For a Lifetime.
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I'm your host Don Mackintosh
and today we are going to be
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talking about water
and here to talk with us is
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Dr. Alan
Handysides. Welcome doctor!
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Thank you very much,
it's a pleasure to be here!
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Now water is a big thing I
think, it probably makes up
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what, 70/80% of the body?
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Oh yes, it's a big thing,
it makes up about that much
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of the planet's surface too.
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When you look at the world from
space, it's the blue planet.
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Many people take it for granted
that they have good water
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but is that really true?
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Well here in North America,
probably most of us do have
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good water. But if we were to
look at the world's globe people
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globally, if we were to
look at it it is not true.
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About only three percent of
the world's water is fresh water
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and probably less than
half that is clean fresh water
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that we can drink,
and that means unpolluted,
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and not all of
that is available.
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Now you were mentioning that
the World Health Organizations
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so called WHO, had a big
meeting about water recently
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and then what
was that all about?
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Well they had, I believe
it was the 22nd of March, 201,
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was designated
the World Water Day.
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It was to draw attention
to the fact that there are
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six billion people in the
world and that 40% of them
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do not have
access to safe water.
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Forty percent! Forty
percent of six billion.
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So this is almost a crisis.
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It's an ongoing crisis,
it's been a crisis for so long
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you know, that
sometimes we forget about it.
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Because here in America
or where we are filming this,
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we are just not aware
of those types of things
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this is more of a
world-wide problem that we
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really need to address.
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When I first went to
Africa as a missionary,
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it was only then that I
realized the importance of water
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I had just taken water
for granted and I am sure
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most of us in North America...
we just think it comes
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out of the taps, we don't really
know how it got into the taps,
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we are not aware of how it's
been purified or prepared for us
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we just take it for granted.
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But then when I went to
Africa I suddenly realized,
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even if you are
looking at a piece of land,
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you know somebody wants...
can you put a clinic here
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or could we build something.
The first and most important
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question is
what's the water supply,
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it's not coming down a pipe,
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so where are you
going to get your water.
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Is it that there is
less water available,
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less fresh water available?
Has the source of fresh water
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changed, or what is the problem?
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No, I don't think that
the source of fresh water
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has changed. A lot of the
fresh water is locked up in the
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polar ice caps, that's where
there is a lot of fresh water
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locked up in the polar ice caps.
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But there has probably
not been a dramatic change
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in the last few centuries any
how in the availability of water
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but there has been a lot
of contamination and pollution
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of the water. So we
have in countries of
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developing nations
or developed nations
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we've had problems with
pollution with mercury, lead,
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toxic products, the
dioxins, and so forth.
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Then in developing countries
the problem is that it's often
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contaminated by
human and animal waste,
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so that it is
biologically contaminated.
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So sanitation is a big issue.
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Way big, it's a
massive massive problem.
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I'll give you and
example, schistosomiasis,
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that's a big name.
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In South Africa the South
Africans and Southern Africans
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call it bilharzia, and that is
not named after William Harzia,
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it's just a name that they give.
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That's caused by human excreta
containing the eggs of the
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schistosomiasis getting
into the water infecting snails
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which live maybe in the
reeds on the reeds and so forth,
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infects the snails, goes
through a cycle in the snail,
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and then they release
into the water the second phase
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of these organisms
which can pierce the skin.
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So bathers, swimmers,
children playing in the water...
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the microorganism
gets through the skin,
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crawls in the lymphatic's,
goes up and finds itself
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into the blood vessels of either
the bladder or large bowel.
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It will mature into a
worm, a worm is going to live
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in a blood vessel, and
a male will find a female,
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they will envelope
with each other like this,
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and they will remain
mated and will lay eggs
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in the wall of the blood vessel
which will migrate through
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into the bowel
and into the bladder.
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Now there are six hundred
million people on the surface
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of the earth's globe that are
infected with schistosomiasis.
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Ohh! Now these are diseases
that we haven't even heard of,
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I know when I say the
word schistosomiasis...
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But think of the numbers of
people, and you know sometimes
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we make these matters worse our-
selves by how we handle water.
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For instance when they put in
dams you put in the Aswan Dam,
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schistosomiasis just came
in like a plague after that.
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I'm looking at them
building on the Yangtze,
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this is going to be the
largest dam in the world,
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to dam back and control the
flood waters of the Yangtze,
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and you say, I wonder
what the effect is going to be?
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Now why is that? The Aswan
Dam, they stop up the water...
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is that there near Egypt?
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That's near, yes.
Right! That water is backed up
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and what happens, is it
a breeding ground for that?
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Yes, are using the water,
the perimeter has increased
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so much more because now it is
not just a river that is running
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through, it is a vast
perimeter of a huge lake.
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All the people are
using it, bathing in it,
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doing other things in it
that they shouldn't be doing,
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and the runoff from the land
...so we get this situation of
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of human contamination and
polluted waters, bacterial...
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So we don't have
systosomiasis, schistosomiasis,
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here in the United
States as much. No!
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But what do you do
when you treat that?
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You've got these worms
and eggs and everything
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in your body, what happens?
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Well, of course there
are anti- worm medicines
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that can be given, not
without some toxic effects,
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they will given and hopefully
you will kill off these worms
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and stop the process
of the laying of the eggs.
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But the fibrosis, the
scarring, that is still there,
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schistosomiasis is a
potent cause of bladder cancer
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because it interferes
with the lining of the bladder
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and you get these
cancer. I remember the one time
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with limited diagnostic
abilities, I felt this lump
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in a woman's abdomen on
examination, and I thought
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well, she's got fibroids.
Well, she was complaining
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and so we opened her up and
it wasn't a lump in the bladder,
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in the uterus, it was
a huge bladder carcinoma.
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When we sent away the tissue,
of course it was infested with
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schistosomiasis, plus the cancer
which came on the top of it,
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so that is a fairly
typical story for people
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who have schistosomiasis.
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This is just not something
that you should let alone,
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if you have that, or you
are in one of those areas
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of the world. Don't
bathe in those polluted
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rivers, I mean the message
I would have for American's
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going over there is be
careful. I remember in Australia
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an Australian
missionary, was working,
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it was a fantastic missionary,
but you know sometimes
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they are a little bit cowboy,
you have to be a little bit
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of a cowboy to be able to
tolerate that stuff you know.
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So he was telling me that
he was going water skiing,
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taking the kids water skiing,
I said don't do it in the water,
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he said Naa!, we're
not going to get anything.
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Two years later we
had to send him home,
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he was riddled
with schistosomiasis.
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Very very sad!
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What other types of
things do you see besides
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schistosomiasis,
schistosomiasis in the water?
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Well, the other things that
you can get, of course water
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can become polluted
with human excrement,
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so contaminated water is
a source for Typhoid Fever,
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Cholera, a common common
pathogen is Giardia Lamblia,
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now Giardia Lamblia is
not a foot soldier who marched
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with Garibaldi and his early...
It's a microorganism that is
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a protozoa, it's got
little flagellate tail there...
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I've heard that
in America. Yeah!
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We call it
Beaver Fever in Canada.
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It's where dirty water,
or contaminated water...
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If you drink that then
they get a lot of diarrhea,
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explosive gassy
feeling, it may become chronic,
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Amebiasis amoeba histolytica
which can cause abscesses
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that also can come
from contaminated water.
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Choloform infections,
the diarrheal diseases,
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most of the diarrheal diseases
are water borne infections.
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Let's talk about that, I mean
that's a pretty practical thing,
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I'm sure everyone's
experienced diarrhea,
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so what are the things
you have to look at if someone
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gets diarrhea is
their water source,
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what else do we
need to know about that?
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Well, we know, we can reduce
the instance of diarrhea in a
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given community by
27% by just insuring a
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clean water supply.
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So at our little mission
hospital where we were in
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Lesotho, we had a 50 bed ward,
they still do a children's ward,
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about 75% of the
children were in there,
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were in there
because of diarrhea,
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they would stay on an
average of eight days.
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So you can imagine that
we were turning over probably
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something like
1,500- 2,000 children a year
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coming into the hospital
and spending eight days there
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because of diarrhea. Diarrhea!
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And 27% of that could be
reduced if you looked at the
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water source there...
If you just cleaned the
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water source.
And you must remember
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it affects children who are
often borderline as far as their
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nutrition is concerned, who
may be in a state of sub optimal
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health. That
often is catastrophic,
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it's the straw that
breaks the camel's back.
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It just weakens them
and they get dehydrated...
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They become dehydrated,
they loose energy, they become
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apathetic, very, very, very sad.
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So it's not just enough
to get the diarrhea stopped.
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Let's say a mother is
watching now and their child has
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diarrhea right now or someone
does, what should you do?
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What should you
watch for with that?
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Well, of course the first thing
that you have to be aware of
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when you see a child with
diarrhea, is you have to say
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is this child loosing
more liquids or fluids than
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we can keep up with by
what we are giving him by mouth?
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Of course you have to know
that what you are giving him
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by mouth is clean, there is
no point in continuing to feed
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him by mouth that
which started the diarrhea
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in the first place.
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So you have to have
clean preferably in those
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sort of situations. Boiled
water, and then you have to see
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that the child is getting
enough of that plus a little
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electrolyte, which usually
means a little bit of salt,
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with the glucose added to
that so the child is re-hydrated
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in a balanced way, not
just with water or else
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you will get salt imbalance.
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And if you can keep
up with the diarrhea,
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then the child
will probably cope.
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But if it starts to be a bloody
flux with mucous in the stool,
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passing large amounts of...
A child is going to dehydrate
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very rapidly and some
of these very small babies,
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you're going to
see their fontanels,
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their little soft spot
at the top of the head,
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are going to sink in, and
they are going to start have to
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loss the teckturger? of
the skin you have lifted up,
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and it doesn't
have good elasticity
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they are going to start
to be lethargic, their eyes
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start to sink. You
need to get them in
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right away. Oh, they need
to be in there chop, chop,
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really, really quickly.
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So, some practical things
before we go to our break,
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what kinds of things
should we do if we don't know
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what the water supply is like?
We don't know whether or not
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it is clean or not? You
mentioned boil the water,
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anything else we can do?
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Boiling the water is fine,
of course you must remember
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the effect of the
altitude on boiling temperature.
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If you are very high altitude,
boiling the water will require
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it to be boiled a little longer
than if you are boiling it
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at sea level. So boiling
the water sufficiently long...
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Sea level, what one minute?
Sea level a couple of minutes
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will be fine, a little
higher, maybe 10,000 feet
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maybe you will want to do
it for five or six minutes
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just to be sure, so
you want to boil your water
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to be sure that's
fine. The other thing is you
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can filter the water, especially
if you are North American,
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that is traveling
into these countries.
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I would advise that you take
with you and pay a little extra
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for it, get one of these filters
that will filter out bacteria.
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and then you know you can take
even bacterially contaminated
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water and you can filter
it clean, and it will take out
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a lot of the other toxins too.
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Does this filter
take out viruses?
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There are some filters
that will take out viruses, yes.
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that are good enough for that.
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So you need to get those
if you know you are traveling.
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If you are not able to do that,
you can buy chlorine tablets.
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Chlorine I don't like
to push, it is not so tasty
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of itself it is not good
for you so you have to put it in
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and then you have to let
the water stand for a long time.
00:14:05.08\00:14:06.93
If you had
absolutely none of these things,
00:14:06.96\00:14:09.79
of course you might just
put the water in a bottle
00:14:09.82\00:14:12.61
and let the sun
shine on the bottle.
00:14:12.64\00:14:14.86
I see! An leave it there for
00:14:14.89\00:14:16.56
a good few hours and
the sun light will actually
00:14:16.59\00:14:19.75
sterilize the
water in the bottle.
00:14:20.75\00:14:22.12
If the water is
cloudy should you drink it?
00:14:22.15\00:14:23.84
Well, I think it depends...
00:14:23.87\00:14:26.76
That's a pretty obvious
question. If you are desperate
00:14:26.79\00:14:29.34
and you haven't got any water
at all and you maybe want to
00:14:29.37\00:14:32.72
filter it through your
shirt or something, but
00:14:32.75\00:14:34.12
I mean you could be
in a desperate situation
00:14:34.15\00:14:36.88
and there is just not
clean water available.
00:14:36.91\00:14:39.86
The thing for us to do
is to educate people about
00:14:39.89\00:14:42.06
clean water sources,
how to protect their springs
00:14:42.09\00:14:45.98
and so forth. Is
rain water clean?
00:14:46.01\00:14:47.92
Rain water is by and
large clean except it depends
00:14:47.95\00:14:51.28
on how you collect it.
For instance if you are
00:14:51.31\00:14:53.26
collecting it off an
Asbestos roof, you worry about
00:14:53.29\00:14:55.42
Asbestos particles. If
your birds have been dropping
00:14:55.45\00:14:58.38
all over the roof,
you've got a burn dropper
00:14:58.41\00:15:00.98
but if you could collect
it in a relatively clean way
00:15:01.01\00:15:05.13
and then rain water
tends to be not bad.
00:15:05.16\00:15:08.94
We're talking with
Dr. Alan Handysides,
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we've been talking about
water, it's an important issue,
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it's a global concern
and it's practical for you,
00:15:13.75\00:15:17.37
we hope that you can
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talking with Dr. Alan Handysides
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from the General Conference
of Seventh Day Adventists,
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you're the head doctor and
one of the things doctors are
00:16:31.71\00:16:33.74
concerned with is water.
00:16:33.77\00:16:35.20
Right! Sure am! So,
we've talked a lot about it
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but are there any other diseases
you would like to mention,
00:16:39.10\00:16:41.30
we've mentioned a whole
host of them and what to do
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about if we have those,
but anything we've missed?
00:16:43.30\00:16:47.20
Well, you know I think perhaps
of importance to our folks
00:16:47.23\00:16:51.84
in the states who may
be traveling to other parts
00:16:51.88\00:16:54.31
is hepatitis A. Hepatitis A,
there are so many hepatitis',
00:16:54.34\00:16:57.33
explain the difference.
Well! There's A, B, C, D, E.
00:16:57.36\00:17:00.38
A, B, C, Yeah, there are
a lot of hepatitis virus.
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Hepatitis A is one that is
water transmitted, hepatitis B
00:17:02.77\00:17:06.59
and C are probably blood
and human fluid transmitted.
00:17:06.62\00:17:12.33
But the hepatitis A is what we
call a fecal oral transmission
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from feces to the mouth,
and so therefore when water gets
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into the mouth... I
think we got the picture...
00:17:22.05\00:17:23.84
You've got the picture.
Ok! A lot of travelers need
00:17:23.87\00:17:28.45
to worry about this,
especially if you are going to a
00:17:28.48\00:17:30.14
non-developed country
like... I won't name them,
00:17:30.17\00:17:32.47
but if you know there
is a developing country
00:17:32.50\00:17:34.55
that you are going to,
you maybe should think about
00:17:34.58\00:17:38.14
hepatitis A. Now
up until recently
00:17:38.17\00:17:41.09
when I say recently, the
last couple of years or so.
00:17:41.12\00:17:43.12
They used to give
you Gamma-globulin,
00:17:43.15\00:17:47.17
of course people were
very frightened about taking
00:17:47.20\00:17:49.23
Gamma-globulin because
that is from somebody else
00:17:49.26\00:17:51.66
and you are worried about AIDS
and transmission of the other
00:17:51.69\00:17:55.78
Hepatitis diseases and those
sort of things we were worried..
00:17:55.81\00:17:58.82
Because you are
getting it out of their blood.
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Out of their blood. Right!
But now there is a vaccine
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that is available which is not
living, it is not a live virus
00:18:03.40\00:18:08.50
and it's able to give
you immunity to hepatitis A.
00:18:08.53\00:18:14.35
So anybody that is traveling
would be wise to be immunized
00:18:14.38\00:18:18.60
against hepatitis A.
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Hepatitis A usually
doesn't cause a problem,
00:18:20.03\00:18:22.30
but every now and again
maybe one in 4,000, one in 5,000
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it causes fulminating
liver problems and I've seen
00:18:25.86\00:18:29.24
children die...From
Hepatitis A! From hepatitis A!
00:18:29.27\00:18:32.38
So let's say that you
didn't have that vaccine
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and you went any way,
how would you avoid...
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You would make sure all of
the water you used was boiled,
00:18:38.27\00:18:41.36
you would have canned type
water or Pop, maybe that's not
00:18:41.39\00:18:46.10
the best... Bottled
water! Bottled water!
00:18:46.13\00:18:47.73
Now in developing
countries you have to be careful
00:18:47.76\00:18:50.25
about the bottles because
a lot of people will just
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go around and collect
bottles fill them up with water,
00:18:53.16\00:18:56.58
put the caps back on and
sell it to you as bottled water
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so you need to
know it is sealed.
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And another good thing
to do is to crush the bottle
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when you are finished with
it so they are not tempted,
00:19:04.75\00:19:08.45
that is a very important
thing for travelers to do.
00:19:08.48\00:19:11.04
What about fruit, produce,
or vegetables in those types
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of situations? Of
course they could be
00:19:14.72\00:19:16.68
contaminated, we've had
out- breaks, large outbreaks
00:19:16.71\00:19:18.83
of diseases from countries
that have been either sprayed
00:19:18.86\00:19:24.28
with contaminated water
or the hands of the people
00:19:24.31\00:19:27.94
handling the fruits and
vegetables have contained
00:19:27.97\00:19:30.72
contamination so
you have to be careful.
00:19:30.75\00:19:33.07
What if you have the fruit
itself and you peel it yourself
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is that safer?
00:19:36.26\00:19:37.63
Yes, but again, let's say you
take the fruit and you peel it
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like this and you move
it around and peel it and
00:19:40.57\00:19:42.14
your hands were
already contaminated,
00:19:42.17\00:19:43.75
it's very difficult to
peel, maybe you wash it
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that will get rid of a
certain degree of contamination.
00:19:46.98\00:19:50.55
Maybe if you are really
living in a country like that
00:19:50.58\00:19:53.79
where you are worried about
it you maybe soak it in a little
00:19:53.82\00:19:56.61
chlorine which is the easiest
way to get chlorine is bleach.
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If you put a tablespoon
of bleach in a quart of water
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and then we used to take
our lettuce leaves or things
00:20:02.96\00:20:06.79
like that, we would soak
them in that and then we would
00:20:06.82\00:20:10.82
rinse it off with
boiled water, there's no point
00:20:10.85\00:20:12.76
rinsing it off with
dirty water, but you rinse it
00:20:12.79\00:20:15.09
off with water, or you
might put it in one of those...
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I like those
centrifuge jobs that my wife has
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spin those lettuce leaves
around and get rid of a lot
00:20:20.56\00:20:23.23
of the water and
leave it to dry and then
00:20:23.26\00:20:25.70
you may eat it like that.
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That save a lot of
pain and a lot of misery.
00:20:27.13\00:20:31.56
A lot of yellow skin.
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Now you sit in a chair
where you see a lot of things
00:20:35.66\00:20:38.45
around the world and you
are part of a global network
00:20:38.48\00:20:41.76
the Seventh-Day Adventist
Church, that's what 205 nations
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out of the 223 nations
of the world? That's right!
00:20:45.90\00:20:48.06
And so what is the Seventh-
Day Adventist Church doing
00:20:48.09\00:20:50.68
to address the concerns
of water around the world?
00:20:50.71\00:20:53.08
I think we have some
pictures that ADRA gave to us,
00:20:53.11\00:20:56.65
the Adventist
Development Relief Agency but
00:20:56.68\00:20:59.40
what are you doing?
00:20:59.43\00:21:01.10
Well, if you look at the
pictures here there is a woman
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carrying a bucket of
water, this is the lot,
00:21:07.06\00:21:10.22
the lot of
millions of African women.
00:21:10.25\00:21:14.67
They walk literally miles a day
to bring a pail of water home.
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So when you look at that you
say what is the economic impact?
00:21:18.91\00:21:22.46
that if she spends three
hours a day carrying water
00:21:22.49\00:21:26.26
that is three hours that
she is not tending the crops,
00:21:26.29\00:21:28.26
three hours that
she... The economic impact
00:21:28.29\00:21:30.79
is something that
we have to look at.
00:21:30.82\00:21:32.19
We look at the
health impact of that,
00:21:32.22\00:21:34.12
you don't know where
she got that water from.
00:21:34.15\00:21:35.94
Or what goes into it
when she is walking along. No!
00:21:35.97\00:21:38.52
You don't know what goes
in and she's had to carry
00:21:38.55\00:21:41.56
and when she comes
home it is precious.
00:21:41.59\00:21:43.72
So as far as washing
and cleansing themselves
00:21:43.75\00:21:47.35
it's at a
premium... You know, you and I
00:21:47.38\00:21:49.72
sit in the shower, how
long did you spend in the shower
00:21:49.75\00:21:51.39
this morning,
probably fifteen minutes, Wow!
00:21:51.42\00:21:54.61
So every bucket full
of water comes like that,
00:21:54.64\00:21:59.87
that has tremendous impact.
00:21:59.90\00:22:01.81
So you say Wow, this is
important is there something
00:22:01.84\00:22:06.24
that we can do to help them?
00:22:06.27\00:22:07.64
So do we get involved in
wells or different things
00:22:07.67\00:22:10.36
I think we have a
picture of one of those but...
00:22:10.39\00:22:11.91
ADRA has been one of the
world's outstanding agencies.
00:22:11.94\00:22:18.86
If you look there is a
well, ADRA must have drilled
00:22:18.89\00:22:21.86
thousands, thousands of
wells throughout the world.
00:22:21.89\00:22:25.79
You'll notice it is a
hand pump, people will say
00:22:25.82\00:22:27.82
why don't we have a
diesel pump on there,
00:22:27.85\00:22:29.54
that would be much better?
00:22:29.57\00:22:30.94
Because the diesel pump, they
don't have the money to pay for
00:22:30.97\00:22:32.97
the diesel fuel.
00:22:33.00\00:22:34.37
They put the diesel in
the wrong place and the pump
00:22:34.40\00:22:37.69
doesn't work any more.
And I noticed that it's capped
00:22:37.72\00:22:39.13
too. Very important, you see
these are Agrarian Communities,
00:22:39.16\00:22:43.33
cattle, goats, chickens,
that is kept out of there.
00:22:43.36\00:22:48.76
Even the human
dung/feces is kept out of there
00:22:48.79\00:22:51.89
so the cap is
very very important.
00:22:51.92\00:22:53.95
And ADRA has done this
in all kinds of countries,
00:22:53.98\00:22:58.10
you've seen these wells
in all over the countries.
00:22:58.13\00:22:59.66
I've seen these wells all
over, they've been doing this
00:22:59.69\00:23:01.75
for years. I
remember being involved
00:23:01.78\00:23:03.80
in a project at our
own hospital years ago now,
00:23:03.83\00:23:07.95
I'm talking about years
ago and it's been increasing
00:23:07.98\00:23:10.96
ever since then, where we put
in 70...we protected 70 springs
00:23:10.99\00:23:16.69
in one year. This
was in a rural community?
00:23:16.72\00:23:19.75
Just in a rural community,
you go in and say where are you
00:23:19.78\00:23:21.35
getting your water from.
Here it is running out of
00:23:21.38\00:23:23.15
the corner of a rock or
a little muddy pool that's
00:23:23.18\00:23:26.50
got a spring fed pool
and you would protect it,
00:23:26.53\00:23:29.44
that is somehow cover it, be
sure that you didn't back the
00:23:29.47\00:23:33.00
water up to block the
spring make it come out
00:23:33.03\00:23:34.94
somewhere else and by
protecting it in that way,
00:23:34.97\00:23:37.64
putting a running water
where they could collect
00:23:37.67\00:23:40.74
the fresh spring
water out of the pipe,
00:23:40.77\00:23:43.81
you cut their problems 27%
with diarrhea and you move...
00:23:43.84\00:23:49.46
Saving hundreds,
millions of lives.
00:23:49.49\00:23:51.46
Millions of lives throughout,
when you multiply this
00:23:51.49\00:23:53.88
throughout the world
in a given community,
00:23:53.91\00:23:55.64
you might be saving
dozens of lives a year.
00:23:55.67\00:23:59.28
Now I imagine a lot of what
you do in these poor countries
00:23:59.31\00:24:02.63
if I call them that,
well, developing countries
00:24:02.66\00:24:06.57
is a lot of education, but
what other connections do you
00:24:06.60\00:24:09.49
see between the
poor and water supply?
00:24:09.52\00:24:13.23
Well, poor people can't
afford the processing of water
00:24:13.26\00:24:18.50
our water systems are
very elaborate, we take water
00:24:18.53\00:24:23.34
we filter it, we precipitate
it, we treat it with chemicals,
00:24:23.37\00:24:28.41
we pipe it, once it has
been used we dispose of it.
00:24:28.44\00:24:32.53
This is amazing infrastructure,
it is the infrastructure,
00:24:32.56\00:24:36.91
the public health infrastructure
that resulted in the 60%
00:24:36.94\00:24:41.32
improvement in the
health of the western nations.
00:24:41.35\00:24:44.92
But that takes money,
when you don't have any money
00:24:44.95\00:24:48.22
what do you do? I
remember in the little village
00:24:48.25\00:24:50.90
outside of our hospital,
I said if there is one thing
00:24:50.93\00:24:53.70
that we could do for you
what would it be, they said
00:24:53.73\00:24:55.10
put a tap in the village.
00:24:55.13\00:24:56.77
So we were able to do
that, it was 3/4 of a kilometer
00:24:56.80\00:25:00.87
up the hillside, we put
the pipe up, poured it down,
00:25:00.90\00:25:04.63
they had that
tap in the village,
00:25:04.66\00:25:06.15
that was to them
like liquid gold because
00:25:06.18\00:25:08.46
they didn't have the
money. The fountain of life.
00:25:08.49\00:25:10.12
That's right,
the fountain of life.
00:25:10.15\00:25:11.92
Well, you know when you think
about just a quick question
00:25:11.95\00:25:17.08
bottled water verses not bottled
water in the United States,
00:25:17.11\00:25:20.00
any value to that?
00:25:20.03\00:25:21.40
It depends on the
bottled water, it depends on the
00:25:21.43\00:25:26.16
tap water. By and large
probably we are fine with
00:25:26.19\00:25:30.15
the tap water and the
reason that I say that
00:25:30.18\00:25:32.84
is a global perspective we are
00:25:32.87\00:25:35.35
the luckiest
people in the world.
00:25:35.38\00:25:36.75
When you look at the problems
that I have been talking about
00:25:36.78\00:25:39.32
today, talk about
minute problems...
00:25:39.35\00:25:42.51
Like bottled water verses tap...
00:25:42.54\00:25:44.25
It seems like we
are... trite almost. Yes!
00:25:44.28\00:25:47.07
On the other hand if we
are concerned about our water
00:25:47.10\00:25:50.27
certain bottled water may
be better, you must remember
00:25:50.30\00:25:53.00
some bottled water is just
from the city supply of some...
00:25:53.03\00:25:56.81
Yeah, and they want to
just make a little extra money.
00:25:56.84\00:25:59.14
That's right, they are just
making money, it's the biggest
00:25:59.17\00:26:00.54
come on in making the money
for some of these companies.
00:26:00.57\00:26:03.50
On the other hand
some of the water is purer,
00:26:03.53\00:26:05.29
some is very nice, it depends.
00:26:05.32\00:26:08.06
We've got two minutes left
and I want you to share from
00:26:08.09\00:26:12.01
Christian physician perspective,
what's your favorite
00:26:12.04\00:26:14.54
Bible studies relates
to water or Bible story,
00:26:14.57\00:26:17.36
comment on that as we close
our program today on water.
00:26:17.39\00:26:21.74
I'd like to tell you about
something that I've seen myself.
00:26:21.77\00:26:25.31
Now I'm a physician,
I'm a sceptic by training,
00:26:25.34\00:26:28.94
and I have seen many
many sick people get better
00:26:28.97\00:26:35.35
and I believe that often
times it is good medicine.
00:26:35.38\00:26:38.97
The good Lord of course is
giving His strength and power
00:26:39.00\00:26:42.36
but I remember a little
child forty one days this child
00:26:42.39\00:26:47.61
of being in the ward,
IV's every available vein,
00:26:47.64\00:26:52.00
I was doing cut downs
to find the vein to keep...
00:26:52.03\00:26:55.08
the kid had diarrhea, pooping
and pooping, diarrhea and
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diarrhea, we didn't have a
laboratory back up to find out
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what it was, the
mother was beside herself,
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so she said to me doctor
I am taking this child home.
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I said, you are going
to take the child home?
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It will die at home, she said
it's going to die here any way,
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I'd rather it die at home.
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I said please
give us one more day.
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I called all the
nurses and we prayed,
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do you know from
the time we prayed,
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that child never had
another diarrheal stool.
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Hmmm! Amen!
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And I am reminded when
Jesus stood at that well
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He said to her, I will
give you water that will be
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a spring of fountain within-
side you will never thirst
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again. That's what He
did for that little child.
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That's going to be the
day when there is going to be
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no more water problems.
No more water problems.
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We're glad that you
have been watching us today
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we've talked about
water, it's a global concern
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but more than that as
the doctor's remind us
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it's a spiritual concern.
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We hope that you do come in
touch with the Water of Life.
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Amen!
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