Water For Life™ Concerts

Decision makers can make a huge influential difference by only taking responsibility for one of these actions below

• Political involvement – endorse and enforce products that are environmentally friendly. Companies, businesses could be fined for not using such products.

• Public involvement – make grants available for public, subsided benefits for environmentally friendly products in the home.

• Development of water resources.

• Health management in water supply, sanitation, and irrigated agricultural production.

• Livelihoods – sourcing the right products, aquatic ecosystems, and hydropower generation.

• Help against flooding and droughts.

• Cost-effective & sustainable products or development– Multipurpose river basins development. Water shed management in poor farm areas.  Aquifer management.

• Giving more responsibility & choice to communities – depending on ability how much to pay and invest in order to increase social  & economic development.

• Educational programmes in schools on hygiene and involve women in the training of hygiene and sanitation.

• Make decision makers aware of the minimal cost of investment to provide access water and sanitation facilities against the expensive economic and health costs.

• Provide sanitation – toilets and latrines in every home and school.

• Increase employment and engage villagers to become builders, masons, water pump operators and maintenance stewards.

• Agricultural – incentives to make productive use of water in rain-fed and irrigated agriculture.

• Flexible water services which are reliable along with sustainable water usage and farming.

• Improve disaster advance monitoring systems and introduce insurance programmes in developing countries.

• Freshwater ecosystems need to be conserved and restored to ensure sustainable water resources in the future.

• Understand the true value of environmental resources – the quality and quantity in order to protect natural resources and endangered species.

• Explain the benefits of conservation against costs of other development.

• Use of other financial incentives and carbon credits to promote conservation.

• To reduce deforestation effectively and benefit financially, forest nations will need to create legislation, regulate through government at a regional and local level, each with their clear responsibilities.

• International and private agreements to protect ecosystems such as buying rainforest arceage.

• Introduce more renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and biomass to fuel ground  pumps and small scale stand alone hydropower schemes for rural and remote areas. Energy created by force of water is more sustainable and non-polluting.