An interfaith campaign among religious congregations to protect water started in Wisconsin on Sunday.
The Rev. Suzelle Lynch, a Unitarian Universalist minister, led about 100 people in song at a ceremony highlighting the spiritual and physical needs for clean water. Members of several other faiths spoke as well.
The Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee is helping the national group Green Faith launch a water protection program aimed locally at lakes Michigan, Superior and inland waters.
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Local organizer Kirsten Shead said combining water and religion makes sense.
“Not just where is water used in a rite or a ceremony in our faith, but where, in our sacred text, that the earth is valuable,” Shead said.
Shead said some faiths also regard having clean water as a social justice issue. She said Green Faith has developed a water shield program that a faith community could go through and be certified in water conservation and protection.
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