The Amazon rainforest is usually wet and lush. But now it is dry, dry, dry. Hot weather and drought hurt the people and animals that live there.

Raimundo Silva do Carmo is a fisherman. But these days he struggles to find water. On Thursday morning, he made his fourth trip of the day to fill a plastic bucket from a well. It is dug into the dry, cracked bed of Lake Puraquequara, east of Manaus, Brazil.

“It’s dreadful work, even more so when the Sun is hot,” Mr. do Carmo says. “We use the water to drink, to bathe, to cook. Without water, there is no life.”

Joaquim Mendes da Silva has lived by the same lake for 43 years. He says this drought is the worst he can remember. Kids in the area stopped going to school a month ago. Getting to class by river became impossible.

River dolphins and fish die. The water is too hot for them. Rivers and lakes shrink.

Look 450 miles west. In the Auati-Parana Extractive Reserve, over 300 families struggle to get food and other supplies. Only small canoes can travel through the low water to the closest city. Canals to the lakes where people fish for pirarucu dried up.

It is normal for the Amazon to have dry spells. Most of the rainforest has lighter rainfall from May to October. But the drought is much worse this year. Plus, heat waves swept across Brazil in the past few past months, even though it was winter there. (Brazil’s colder months are June to September.)

Pray for the people who live in the Amazon. Ask God to provide them with His eternal, living water as well as the rain they need. (John 7:38)

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. — Isaiah 44:3