Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is observing the United Nation's World Water Day on March 22 by continuing to build safe, accessible wells and improving sanitation for hundreds of thousands of people around the world.

World Water Day, established in 1993 after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), is an international day to raise awareness about the 1 billion people without access to clean water.

In Mozambique, both the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is working to provide safe, easily accessible water in the country where 70 percent of the population live without it, leaders for the organizations said.

ADRA, the international aid organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is partnering with relief organization Samaritan's Purse in a multi-million dollar project that will include supplying drinkable water to thousands of Mozambicans. The organizations are providing water filtration systems and repairing hand-pumps and hand-dug wells.

Another ADRA project is providing safe water for 14,000 inhabitants of the Little Andaman, Andaman and Nicobar islands, all territories of India. The project, which began in 2007, is rehabilitating wells and improving water sanitation in the islands devastated during the December 2004 tsunami.

ADRA is a non-governmental organization present in 125 countries providing sustainable community development and disaster relief without regard to political or religious association, age, gender, race, or ethnicity.