Clean water is something you might take for granted every day as you go to the tap in your house or open a bottle of cold water.

However, for many people around the world, access to clean water seems like a dream.

According to the United Nations, three in ten people lack access to safely manage

drinking water services. Today, we're going to discuss how the Dutera Healing Hands Foundation

works to spread access to clean water. Welcome back to Essential Oil Solutions with Dutera, the podcast where you'll hear

exciting, useful, and simple everyday uses for essential oils from experts in the field.

If you like what you hear today, rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen. We always appreciate

hearing from you. Today, we're excited to talk to Jim and Laura Hicks, as well as Corey Lindley,

about why they're passionate about bringing access to clean water to everyone around the world.

Jim and Laura, thank you so much for joining us today to talk about this incredibly important

issue.

You're welcome.

Thank you for having us.

It's a more privilege to be here.

Happy to be part of it.

So what is it that brought the issue of clean water to your attention?

So a lot of people think, oh, you must have been like really into water or like have some type of biology degree or something that would make you take real interest in water.

But the truth is we were just a young, newlywed couple who really had no idea about the fact that there was a world water crisis.

Even though I had had pretty extensive travels and had been to many places around the world that do actually suffer from a lack of clean water, it was always provided for me in abundance.

I was there as a guest. I was always

being handed bottles of water. It was never really an issue. And so it was amazing how even the

sheltering that I experienced, though I was well traveled, I just wasn't aware. And that's part of the

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