Participants: Don Mackintosh, Allan Handysides
Series Code: HFAL
Program Code: HFAL000098
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00:46 Hello, and welcome to Health For a Lifetime.
00:48 I'm your host Don Mackintosh and today we are going to be 00:50 talking about water and here to talk with us is 00:53 Dr. Alan Handysides. Welcome doctor! 00:55 Thank you very much, it's a pleasure to be here! 00:57 Now water is a big thing I think, it probably makes up 01:00 what, 70/80% of the body? 01:02 Oh yes, it's a big thing, it makes up about that much 01:06 of the planet's surface too. 01:07 When you look at the world from space, it's the blue planet. 01:11 Many people take it for granted that they have good water 01:14 but is that really true? 01:17 Well here in North America, probably most of us do have 01:21 good water. But if we were to look at the world's globe people 01:25 globally, if we were to look at it it is not true. 01:27 About only three percent of the world's water is fresh water 01:33 and probably less than half that is clean fresh water 01:39 that we can drink, and that means unpolluted, 01:42 and not all of that is available. 01:44 Now you were mentioning that the World Health Organizations 01:47 so called WHO, had a big meeting about water recently 01:52 and then what was that all about? 01:54 Well they had, I believe it was the 22nd of March, 201, 01:59 was designated the World Water Day. 02:02 It was to draw attention to the fact that there are 02:06 six billion people in the world and that 40% of them 02:10 do not have access to safe water. 02:13 Forty percent! Forty percent of six billion. 02:17 So this is almost a crisis. 02:20 It's an ongoing crisis, it's been a crisis for so long 02:25 you know, that sometimes we forget about it. 02:28 Because here in America or where we are filming this, 02:33 we are just not aware of those types of things 02:35 this is more of a world-wide problem that we 02:38 really need to address. 02:40 When I first went to Africa as a missionary, 02:42 it was only then that I realized the importance of water 02:46 I had just taken water for granted and I am sure 02:49 most of us in North America... we just think it comes 02:52 out of the taps, we don't really know how it got into the taps, 02:54 we are not aware of how it's been purified or prepared for us 03:00 we just take it for granted. 03:02 But then when I went to Africa I suddenly realized, 03:04 even if you are looking at a piece of land, 03:06 you know somebody wants... can you put a clinic here 03:08 or could we build something. The first and most important 03:12 question is what's the water supply, 03:15 it's not coming down a pipe, 03:17 so where are you going to get your water. 03:19 Is it that there is less water available, 03:23 less fresh water available? Has the source of fresh water 03:27 changed, or what is the problem? 03:29 No, I don't think that the source of fresh water 03:32 has changed. A lot of the fresh water is locked up in the 03:34 polar ice caps, that's where there is a lot of fresh water 03:38 locked up in the polar ice caps. 03:40 But there has probably not been a dramatic change 03:44 in the last few centuries any how in the availability of water 03:50 but there has been a lot of contamination and pollution 03:54 of the water. So we have in countries of 03:57 developing nations or developed nations 03:59 we've had problems with pollution with mercury, lead, 04:04 toxic products, the dioxins, and so forth. 04:07 Then in developing countries the problem is that it's often 04:12 contaminated by human and animal waste, 04:15 so that it is biologically contaminated. 04:17 So sanitation is a big issue. 04:21 Way big, it's a massive massive problem. 04:25 I'll give you and example, schistosomiasis, 04:30 that's a big name. 04:31 In South Africa the South Africans and Southern Africans 04:35 call it bilharzia, and that is not named after William Harzia, 04:39 it's just a name that they give. 04:41 That's caused by human excreta containing the eggs of the 04:48 schistosomiasis getting into the water infecting snails 04:52 which live maybe in the reeds on the reeds and so forth, 04:55 infects the snails, goes through a cycle in the snail, 04:58 and then they release into the water the second phase 05:03 of these organisms which can pierce the skin. 05:05 So bathers, swimmers, children playing in the water... 05:10 the microorganism gets through the skin, 05:12 crawls in the lymphatic's, goes up and finds itself 05:16 into the blood vessels of either the bladder or large bowel. 05:21 It will mature into a worm, a worm is going to live 05:25 in a blood vessel, and a male will find a female, 05:28 they will envelope with each other like this, 05:32 and they will remain mated and will lay eggs 05:35 in the wall of the blood vessel which will migrate through 05:38 into the bowel and into the bladder. 05:40 Now there are six hundred million people on the surface 05:46 of the earth's globe that are infected with schistosomiasis. 05:50 Ohh! Now these are diseases that we haven't even heard of, 05:52 I know when I say the word schistosomiasis... 05:55 But think of the numbers of people, and you know sometimes 05:59 we make these matters worse our- selves by how we handle water. 06:03 For instance when they put in dams you put in the Aswan Dam, 06:07 schistosomiasis just came in like a plague after that. 06:11 I'm looking at them building on the Yangtze, 06:13 this is going to be the largest dam in the world, 06:16 to dam back and control the flood waters of the Yangtze, 06:19 and you say, I wonder what the effect is going to be? 06:22 Now why is that? The Aswan Dam, they stop up the water... 06:27 is that there near Egypt? 06:28 That's near, yes. Right! That water is backed up 06:33 and what happens, is it a breeding ground for that? 06:35 Yes, are using the water, the perimeter has increased 06:40 so much more because now it is not just a river that is running 06:43 through, it is a vast perimeter of a huge lake. 06:45 All the people are using it, bathing in it, 06:48 doing other things in it that they shouldn't be doing, 06:52 and the runoff from the land ...so we get this situation of 06:57 of human contamination and polluted waters, bacterial... 07:02 So we don't have systosomiasis, schistosomiasis, 07:06 here in the United States as much. No! 07:09 But what do you do when you treat that? 07:11 You've got these worms and eggs and everything 07:13 in your body, what happens? 07:14 Well, of course there are anti- worm medicines 07:17 that can be given, not without some toxic effects, 07:21 they will given and hopefully you will kill off these worms 07:24 and stop the process of the laying of the eggs. 07:26 But the fibrosis, the scarring, that is still there, 07:31 schistosomiasis is a potent cause of bladder cancer 07:34 because it interferes with the lining of the bladder 07:38 and you get these cancer. I remember the one time 07:40 with limited diagnostic abilities, I felt this lump 07:43 in a woman's abdomen on examination, and I thought 07:47 well, she's got fibroids. Well, she was complaining 07:49 and so we opened her up and it wasn't a lump in the bladder, 07:53 in the uterus, it was a huge bladder carcinoma. 07:57 When we sent away the tissue, of course it was infested with 08:01 schistosomiasis, plus the cancer which came on the top of it, 08:05 so that is a fairly typical story for people 08:08 who have schistosomiasis. 08:10 This is just not something that you should let alone, 08:11 if you have that, or you are in one of those areas 08:14 of the world. Don't bathe in those polluted 08:16 rivers, I mean the message I would have for American's 08:20 going over there is be careful. I remember in Australia 08:23 an Australian missionary, was working, 08:25 it was a fantastic missionary, but you know sometimes 08:27 they are a little bit cowboy, you have to be a little bit 08:29 of a cowboy to be able to tolerate that stuff you know. 08:31 So he was telling me that he was going water skiing, 08:34 taking the kids water skiing, I said don't do it in the water, 08:36 he said Naa!, we're not going to get anything. 08:38 Two years later we had to send him home, 08:40 he was riddled with schistosomiasis. 08:43 Very very sad! 08:45 What other types of things do you see besides 08:47 schistosomiasis, schistosomiasis in the water? 08:52 Well, the other things that you can get, of course water 08:54 can become polluted with human excrement, 08:58 so contaminated water is a source for Typhoid Fever, 09:02 Cholera, a common common pathogen is Giardia Lamblia, 09:08 now Giardia Lamblia is not a foot soldier who marched 09:10 with Garibaldi and his early... It's a microorganism that is 09:14 a protozoa, it's got little flagellate tail there... 09:17 I've heard that in America. Yeah! 09:18 We call it Beaver Fever in Canada. 09:20 It's where dirty water, or contaminated water... 09:25 If you drink that then they get a lot of diarrhea, 09:28 explosive gassy feeling, it may become chronic, 09:31 Amebiasis amoeba histolytica which can cause abscesses 09:36 that also can come from contaminated water. 09:39 Choloform infections, the diarrheal diseases, 09:43 most of the diarrheal diseases are water borne infections. 09:47 Let's talk about that, I mean that's a pretty practical thing, 09:50 I'm sure everyone's experienced diarrhea, 09:51 so what are the things you have to look at if someone 09:54 gets diarrhea is their water source, 09:56 what else do we need to know about that? 09:58 Well, we know, we can reduce the instance of diarrhea in a 10:04 given community by 27% by just insuring a 10:08 clean water supply. 10:09 So at our little mission hospital where we were in 10:12 Lesotho, we had a 50 bed ward, they still do a children's ward, 10:18 about 75% of the children were in there, 10:22 were in there because of diarrhea, 10:23 they would stay on an average of eight days. 10:27 So you can imagine that we were turning over probably 10:32 something like 1,500- 2,000 children a year 10:36 coming into the hospital and spending eight days there 10:39 because of diarrhea. Diarrhea! 10:40 And 27% of that could be reduced if you looked at the 10:44 water source there... If you just cleaned the 10:45 water source. And you must remember 10:48 it affects children who are often borderline as far as their 10:52 nutrition is concerned, who may be in a state of sub optimal 10:59 health. That often is catastrophic, 11:01 it's the straw that breaks the camel's back. 11:03 It just weakens them and they get dehydrated... 11:06 They become dehydrated, they loose energy, they become 11:10 apathetic, very, very, very sad. 11:13 So it's not just enough to get the diarrhea stopped. 11:16 Let's say a mother is watching now and their child has 11:19 diarrhea right now or someone does, what should you do? 11:22 What should you watch for with that? 11:24 Well, of course the first thing that you have to be aware of 11:27 when you see a child with diarrhea, is you have to say 11:30 is this child loosing more liquids or fluids than 11:34 we can keep up with by what we are giving him by mouth? 11:37 Of course you have to know that what you are giving him 11:39 by mouth is clean, there is no point in continuing to feed 11:42 him by mouth that which started the diarrhea 11:44 in the first place. 11:45 So you have to have clean preferably in those 11:49 sort of situations. Boiled water, and then you have to see 11:52 that the child is getting enough of that plus a little 11:54 electrolyte, which usually means a little bit of salt, 11:56 with the glucose added to that so the child is re-hydrated 12:00 in a balanced way, not just with water or else 12:03 you will get salt imbalance. 12:04 And if you can keep up with the diarrhea, 12:07 then the child will probably cope. 12:10 But if it starts to be a bloody flux with mucous in the stool, 12:14 passing large amounts of... A child is going to dehydrate 12:17 very rapidly and some of these very small babies, 12:21 you're going to see their fontanels, 12:24 their little soft spot at the top of the head, 12:25 are going to sink in, and they are going to start have to 12:28 loss the teckturger? of the skin you have lifted up, 12:29 and it doesn't have good elasticity 12:33 they are going to start to be lethargic, their eyes 12:36 start to sink. You need to get them in 12:38 right away. Oh, they need to be in there chop, chop, 12:40 really, really quickly. 12:42 So, some practical things before we go to our break, 12:45 what kinds of things should we do if we don't know 12:48 what the water supply is like? We don't know whether or not 12:50 it is clean or not? You mentioned boil the water, 12:53 anything else we can do? 12:54 Boiling the water is fine, of course you must remember 12:57 the effect of the altitude on boiling temperature. 13:00 If you are very high altitude, boiling the water will require 13:03 it to be boiled a little longer than if you are boiling it 13:06 at sea level. So boiling the water sufficiently long... 13:09 Sea level, what one minute? Sea level a couple of minutes 13:12 will be fine, a little higher, maybe 10,000 feet 13:14 maybe you will want to do it for five or six minutes 13:16 just to be sure, so you want to boil your water 13:18 to be sure that's fine. The other thing is you 13:20 can filter the water, especially if you are North American, 13:23 that is traveling into these countries. 13:25 I would advise that you take with you and pay a little extra 13:28 for it, get one of these filters that will filter out bacteria. 13:33 and then you know you can take even bacterially contaminated 13:38 water and you can filter it clean, and it will take out 13:41 a lot of the other toxins too. 13:43 Does this filter take out viruses? 13:45 There are some filters that will take out viruses, yes. 13:47 that are good enough for that. 13:50 So you need to get those if you know you are traveling. 13:52 If you are not able to do that, you can buy chlorine tablets. 13:57 Chlorine I don't like to push, it is not so tasty 14:02 of itself it is not good for you so you have to put it in 14:05 and then you have to let the water stand for a long time. 14:06 If you had absolutely none of these things, 14:09 of course you might just put the water in a bottle 14:12 and let the sun shine on the bottle. 14:14 I see! An leave it there for 14:16 a good few hours and the sun light will actually 14:20 sterilize the water in the bottle. 14:22 If the water is cloudy should you drink it? 14:23 Well, I think it depends... 14:26 That's a pretty obvious question. If you are desperate 14:29 and you haven't got any water at all and you maybe want to 14:32 filter it through your shirt or something, but 14:34 I mean you could be in a desperate situation 14:36 and there is just not clean water available. 14:39 The thing for us to do is to educate people about 14:42 clean water sources, how to protect their springs 14:46 and so forth. Is rain water clean? 14:47 Rain water is by and large clean except it depends 14:51 on how you collect it. For instance if you are 14:53 collecting it off an Asbestos roof, you worry about 14:55 Asbestos particles. If your birds have been dropping 14:58 all over the roof, you've got a burn dropper 15:01 but if you could collect it in a relatively clean way 15:05 and then rain water tends to be not bad. 15:08 We're talking with Dr. Alan Handysides, 15:11 we've been talking about water, it's an important issue, 15:13 it's a global concern and it's practical for you, 15:17 we hope that you can join us when we come back. 15:24 Have you found yourself wishing you could shed a few pounds, 15:27 Have you been on a diet most of your life, 15:29 but not found anything that will really keep the weight off? 15:32 If you've answered yes to any of these questions 15:35 then we have a solution for you that works. 15:38 Dr. Hans Diehl and Dr. Aileen Ludington have written 15:41 a marvelous booklet called Reversing Obesity Naturally, 15:45 and we would like to send it to you free of charge. 15:47 Here is a medically sound approach successfully used 15:51 by thousands who were able to eat more and loose weight 15:54 permanently, without feeling guilty or hungry 15:57 through lifestyle medicine. 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So, we've talked a lot about it 16:39 but are there any other diseases you would like to mention, 16:41 we've mentioned a whole host of them and what to do 16:43 about if we have those, but anything we've missed? 16:47 Well, you know I think perhaps of importance to our folks 16:51 in the states who may be traveling to other parts 16:54 is hepatitis A. Hepatitis A, there are so many hepatitis', 16:57 explain the difference. Well! There's A, B, C, D, E. 17:00 A, B, C, Yeah, there are a lot of hepatitis virus. 17:02 Hepatitis A is one that is water transmitted, hepatitis B 17:06 and C are probably blood and human fluid transmitted. 17:12 But the hepatitis A is what we call a fecal oral transmission 17:17 from feces to the mouth, and so therefore when water gets 17:22 into the mouth... I think we got the picture... 17:23 You've got the picture. Ok! A lot of travelers need 17:28 to worry about this, especially if you are going to a 17:30 non-developed country like... I won't name them, 17:32 but if you know there is a developing country 17:34 that you are going to, you maybe should think about 17:38 hepatitis A. Now up until recently 17:41 when I say recently, the last couple of years or so. 17:43 They used to give you Gamma-globulin, 17:47 of course people were very frightened about taking 17:49 Gamma-globulin because that is from somebody else 17:51 and you are worried about AIDS and transmission of the other 17:55 Hepatitis diseases and those sort of things we were worried.. 17:58 Because you are getting it out of their blood. 18:00 Out of their blood. Right! But now there is a vaccine 18:03 that is available which is not living, it is not a live virus 18:08 and it's able to give you immunity to hepatitis A. 18:14 So anybody that is traveling would be wise to be immunized 18:18 against hepatitis A. 18:20 Hepatitis A usually doesn't cause a problem, 18:22 but every now and again maybe one in 4,000, one in 5,000 18:25 it causes fulminating liver problems and I've seen 18:29 children die...From Hepatitis A! From hepatitis A! 18:32 So let's say that you didn't have that vaccine 18:36 and you went any way, how would you avoid... 18:38 You would make sure all of the water you used was boiled, 18:41 you would have canned type water or Pop, maybe that's not 18:46 the best... Bottled water! Bottled water! 18:47 Now in developing countries you have to be careful 18:50 about the bottles because a lot of people will just 18:53 go around and collect bottles fill them up with water, 18:56 put the caps back on and sell it to you as bottled water 18:59 so you need to know it is sealed. 19:01 And another good thing to do is to crush the bottle 19:04 when you are finished with it so they are not tempted, 19:08 that is a very important thing for travelers to do. 19:11 What about fruit, produce, or vegetables in those types 19:14 of situations? Of course they could be 19:16 contaminated, we've had out- breaks, large outbreaks 19:18 of diseases from countries that have been either sprayed 19:24 with contaminated water or the hands of the people 19:27 handling the fruits and vegetables have contained 19:30 contamination so you have to be careful. 19:33 What if you have the fruit itself and you peel it yourself 19:36 is that safer? 19:37 Yes, but again, let's say you take the fruit and you peel it 19:40 like this and you move it around and peel it and 19:42 your hands were already contaminated, 19:43 it's very difficult to peel, maybe you wash it 19:46 that will get rid of a certain degree of contamination. 19:50 Maybe if you are really living in a country like that 19:53 where you are worried about it you maybe soak it in a little 19:56 chlorine which is the easiest way to get chlorine is bleach. 19:58 If you put a tablespoon of bleach in a quart of water 20:02 and then we used to take our lettuce leaves or things 20:06 like that, we would soak them in that and then we would 20:10 rinse it off with boiled water, there's no point 20:12 rinsing it off with dirty water, but you rinse it 20:15 off with water, or you might put it in one of those... 20:18 I like those centrifuge jobs that my wife has 20:20 spin those lettuce leaves around and get rid of a lot 20:23 of the water and leave it to dry and then 20:25 you may eat it like that. 20:27 That save a lot of pain and a lot of misery. 20:31 A lot of yellow skin. 20:35 Now you sit in a chair where you see a lot of things 20:38 around the world and you are part of a global network 20:41 the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, that's what 205 nations 20:45 out of the 223 nations of the world? That's right! 20:48 And so what is the Seventh- Day Adventist Church doing 20:50 to address the concerns of water around the world? 20:53 I think we have some pictures that ADRA gave to us, 20:56 the Adventist Development Relief Agency but 20:59 what are you doing? 21:01 Well, if you look at the pictures here there is a woman 21:07 carrying a bucket of water, this is the lot, 21:10 the lot of millions of African women. 21:14 They walk literally miles a day to bring a pail of water home. 21:18 So when you look at that you say what is the economic impact? 21:22 that if she spends three hours a day carrying water 21:26 that is three hours that she is not tending the crops, 21:28 three hours that she... The economic impact 21:30 is something that we have to look at. 21:32 We look at the health impact of that, 21:34 you don't know where she got that water from. 21:35 Or what goes into it when she is walking along. No! 21:38 You don't know what goes in and she's had to carry 21:41 and when she comes home it is precious. 21:43 So as far as washing and cleansing themselves 21:47 it's at a premium... You know, you and I 21:49 sit in the shower, how long did you spend in the shower 21:51 this morning, probably fifteen minutes, Wow! 21:54 So every bucket full of water comes like that, 21:59 that has tremendous impact. 22:01 So you say Wow, this is important is there something 22:06 that we can do to help them? 22:07 So do we get involved in wells or different things 22:10 I think we have a picture of one of those but... 22:11 ADRA has been one of the world's outstanding agencies. 22:18 If you look there is a well, ADRA must have drilled 22:21 thousands, thousands of wells throughout the world. 22:25 You'll notice it is a hand pump, people will say 22:27 why don't we have a diesel pump on there, 22:29 that would be much better? 22:30 Because the diesel pump, they don't have the money to pay for 22:33 the diesel fuel. 22:34 They put the diesel in the wrong place and the pump 22:37 doesn't work any more. And I noticed that it's capped 22:39 too. Very important, you see these are Agrarian Communities, 22:43 cattle, goats, chickens, that is kept out of there. 22:48 Even the human dung/feces is kept out of there 22:51 so the cap is very very important. 22:53 And ADRA has done this in all kinds of countries, 22:58 you've seen these wells in all over the countries. 22:59 I've seen these wells all over, they've been doing this 23:01 for years. I remember being involved 23:03 in a project at our own hospital years ago now, 23:07 I'm talking about years ago and it's been increasing 23:10 ever since then, where we put in 70...we protected 70 springs 23:16 in one year. This was in a rural community? 23:19 Just in a rural community, you go in and say where are you 23:21 getting your water from. Here it is running out of 23:23 the corner of a rock or a little muddy pool that's 23:26 got a spring fed pool and you would protect it, 23:29 that is somehow cover it, be sure that you didn't back the 23:33 water up to block the spring make it come out 23:34 somewhere else and by protecting it in that way, 23:37 putting a running water where they could collect 23:40 the fresh spring water out of the pipe, 23:43 you cut their problems 27% with diarrhea and you move... 23:49 Saving hundreds, millions of lives. 23:51 Millions of lives throughout, when you multiply this 23:53 throughout the world in a given community, 23:55 you might be saving dozens of lives a year. 23:59 Now I imagine a lot of what you do in these poor countries 24:02 if I call them that, well, developing countries 24:06 is a lot of education, but what other connections do you 24:09 see between the poor and water supply? 24:13 Well, poor people can't afford the processing of water 24:18 our water systems are very elaborate, we take water 24:23 we filter it, we precipitate it, we treat it with chemicals, 24:28 we pipe it, once it has been used we dispose of it. 24:32 This is amazing infrastructure, it is the infrastructure, 24:36 the public health infrastructure that resulted in the 60% 24:41 improvement in the health of the western nations. 24:44 But that takes money, when you don't have any money 24:48 what do you do? I remember in the little village 24:50 outside of our hospital, I said if there is one thing 24:53 that we could do for you what would it be, they said 24:55 put a tap in the village. 24:56 So we were able to do that, it was 3/4 of a kilometer 25:00 up the hillside, we put the pipe up, poured it down, 25:04 they had that tap in the village, 25:06 that was to them like liquid gold because 25:08 they didn't have the money. The fountain of life. 25:10 That's right, the fountain of life. 25:11 Well, you know when you think about just a quick question 25:17 bottled water verses not bottled water in the United States, 25:20 any value to that? 25:21 It depends on the bottled water, it depends on the 25:26 tap water. By and large probably we are fine with 25:30 the tap water and the reason that I say that 25:32 is a global perspective we are 25:35 the luckiest people in the world. 25:36 When you look at the problems that I have been talking about 25:39 today, talk about minute problems... 25:42 Like bottled water verses tap... 25:44 It seems like we are... trite almost. Yes! 25:47 On the other hand if we are concerned about our water 25:50 certain bottled water may be better, you must remember 25:53 some bottled water is just from the city supply of some... 25:56 Yeah, and they want to just make a little extra money. 25:59 That's right, they are just making money, it's the biggest 26:00 come on in making the money for some of these companies. 26:03 On the other hand some of the water is purer, 26:05 some is very nice, it depends. 26:08 We've got two minutes left and I want you to share from 26:12 Christian physician perspective, what's your favorite 26:14 Bible studies relates to water or Bible story, 26:17 comment on that as we close our program today on water. 26:21 I'd like to tell you about something that I've seen myself. 26:25 Now I'm a physician, I'm a sceptic by training, 26:28 and I have seen many many sick people get better 26:35 and I believe that often times it is good medicine. 26:39 The good Lord of course is giving His strength and power 26:42 but I remember a little child forty one days this child 26:47 of being in the ward, IV's every available vein, 26:52 I was doing cut downs to find the vein to keep... 26:55 the kid had diarrhea, pooping and pooping, diarrhea and 26:58 diarrhea, we didn't have a laboratory back up to find out 27:00 what it was, the mother was beside herself, 27:03 so she said to me doctor I am taking this child home. 27:06 I said, you are going to take the child home? 27:09 It will die at home, she said it's going to die here any way, 27:12 I'd rather it die at home. 27:13 I said please give us one more day. 27:15 I called all the nurses and we prayed, 27:17 do you know from the time we prayed, 27:20 that child never had another diarrheal stool. 27:24 Hmmm! Amen! 27:26 And I am reminded when Jesus stood at that well 27:28 He said to her, I will give you water that will be 27:34 a spring of fountain within- side you will never thirst 27:37 again. That's what He did for that little child. 27:40 That's going to be the day when there is going to be 27:42 no more water problems. No more water problems. 27:45 We're glad that you have been watching us today 27:47 we've talked about water, it's a global concern 27:49 but more than that as the doctor's remind us 27:53 it's a spiritual concern. 27:55 We hope that you do come in touch with the Water of Life. 27:58 Amen! |
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