There aren’t too many nuns who are also water engineers. Marella Rebgetz, is a water engineer nun. She has a degree in water management.
She is employed by the government of Kiribati to help address that country’s critical water needs caused by the rising sea level and the increasing salination of drinking water. One of the threats of rising sea levels is contamination of the fragile fresh water lens that lies under the islets ringing its atolls.
Sean Dorney, the ABC’s Pacific Correspondent, has made a video report showing find out how Marella is helping to solve Kiribati’s critical water needs as a water engineer.
Marella is a Good Samaritan Sister from Australia. There are two communities of Good Samaritan Sistes in Kiribati They are engaged in a variety of ministries: primary education, youth ministry, and working with people with disabilities and mental illness.
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