This World Water Day, we should consider ourselves lucky to have safe and reliable water sources available.

    According to Samaritans Purse Canada, 1.1 billion people worldwide have no access to a safe water supply. Marty Silbernagel with Samaritans Purse says one of their initiatives, called "Turn on the Tap", is providing household water filters to families in need.

    He says in the two years of the program, 70,000 biosand water filters have been used to help 560,000 people worldwide.

    Silbernagel adds you can make donations from Visa or MasterCard to the program by going to samaritanspurse.ca and click on the donate button, or by calling (800) 663-6500.