{"id":2827,"date":"2012-06-08T11:23:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T16:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/hungerrumblings\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2012-06-08T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T16:23:12","slug":"the-yellow-bucket-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/the-yellow-bucket-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yellow Bucket Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/hungerrumblings\/2012\/06\/jerrycan_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2828\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/hungerrumblings\/2012\/06\/jerrycan_01-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>People who take running water for granted \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>use an average of 100 gallons per day <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>to accomplish the <em>same<\/em> tasks <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>that people who carry water achieve with 10 gallons. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For most of us, \u201ccarrying water\u201d is synonymous with poverty and exploitation. If you carry water, you have none in your home. If you carry water, you have to walk miles, possibly barefoot. If you carry water, you can\u2019t go to school. If you carry water, you are destitute.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps what yellow plastic water buckets really symbolize is respect. If you carry water, you use it carefully. Every drop is precious. You take care not to waste a single drop.<\/p>\n<p>Could the kitchen faucet symbolize disrespect?\u00a0 We turn on a faucet and water gushes out. It runs and runs and runs, while we move away and tackle another task. Because water shows up every time want it, we don\u2019t treat it as precious at all.<\/p>\n<p>Correction. We think it\u2019s precious for <em>other <\/em>people, so we raise money for things like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elca.org\/Our-Faith-In-Action\/Responding-to-the-World\/ELCA-World-Hunger\/Resources\/For-Congregations\/Generational-Materials\/100Wells.aspx\">ELCA World Hunger 100 Wells Challenge<\/a>, and get excited when new wells are dedicated. But there\u2019s no Challenge to our own attitudes and water use. Notice (my apologies, colleagues) that the \u201cglobal water crisis\u201d described on our web site happens someplace else.<\/p>\n<p>If the accompaniment model calls us to <em>mutual<\/em> mission, shouldn\u2019t our behaviors be part of water ministry? Shouldn\u2019t we be creating an ELCA World Hunger 100 Gallon Challenge focused on us? Couldn\u2019t we be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/musings\/home-dashboards-help-reduce-energy-use\">installing water meters on our sinks and showers<\/a> so we can see our water use in real time? Or plunking yellow water buckets on the counter, so that our companions&#8217; reverence might convince us to turn <em>off <\/em>the tap?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2014and how\u2014can we learn from the water carriers?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anne Basye, <em>Sustaining Simplicity<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; People who take running water for granted \u00a0 use an average of 100 gallons per day to accomplish the same tasks that people who carry water achieve with 10 gallons. &nbsp; For most of us, \u201ccarrying water\u201d is synonymous with poverty and exploitation. If you carry water, you have none in your home. 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