Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Arnie LeMay of Water With Blessings, left, drinks a cup of filtered creek water Aug. 9 in Chavies, Kentucky, after demonstrating the Sawyer PointONE water filter to volunteers at First Church of God. (CNS/Handout via The Record)

Volunteers are on a mission to get safe drinking water to Kentucky county

Kentuckians are on a mission to bring safe drinking water to Perry County, where parts of the water infrastructure were destroyed in flooding that began July 26 in eastern Kentucky.

In this 2016 photo, Maryknoll Sr. Patricia Ryan speaks with Lucila Ticona Vda. de Laura and other Aymara community leaders, in an Acción de Amparo, at Plaza de Armas, Puno City, Puno Department, Peru. (Courtesy of Maryknoll Magazine/Nile Sprague)

Q & A with Sr. Patricia Ryan, defending Indigenous rights amid land exploitation

By Chris Herlinger

A demonstrator holds up a sign at an Oct. 1 Fridays for Future climate strike in Milan, Italy, ahead of the Oct. 31-Nov. 12 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. (CNS/Reuters/Flavio Lo Scalzo)

Save the planet: Sister-related updates from COP26, the UN climate change conference

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Sister Molly, manager of the farm at Deepalaya, run by the Medical Mission Sisters in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India, leads novices in planting. (Courtesy of Celine Paramundayil)

Medical Mission Sisters' Deepalaya farm is an oasis in Madhya Pradesh

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'This is water management.' St. Joseph sisters create massive rain garden in New Orleans

Instead of selling off 25 acres of prime urban real estate, the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in New Orleans went ahead with a visionary architect's plan to manage stormwater.

ByDan Stockman