This document discusses the importance and value of water through a series of statements about water and transparency, development, access, sharing, availability, economic impact, health, time, life, and dignity. Water is essential for drinking, cooking, washing, agriculture, livestock, fisheries, processing and more. Equitable access to water is important for rural communities, health, education and basic human dignity.

1. WATER &
TRANSPARENCY

2. WATER &
TRANSPARENCY
Fairness and equity
make for transparent
water policies,
management,
governance and tenure

3. WATER IS
DEVELOPMENT

4. WATER IS
DEVELOPMENT
We have to invest in
domestic water
supply, sanitation
and hygiene

5. WATER IS
FOR ALL

6. WATER IS FOR ALL
You need it for
drinking, cooking,
washing, crops,
livestock, fisheries,
gardens, processing…

7. WATER IS
TO SHARE

8. WATER IS TO SHARE
Support rural
communities to share
equitably with their
neighbours upstream
and downstream

9. WATER
SHOULD
BE 24/7

10. WATER SHOULD
BE 24/7
You need it
every single day
and
anytime

11. WATER IS
MONEY

12. WATER IS MONEY
1$ in water supply
yields 2$
1$ in sanitation
yields 5$
in economic return

13. WATER IS
HEALTH

14. WATER IS HEALTH
One child dies
every 21 seconds
because of a water-
related disease

15. WATER IS
TIME

16. WATER IS TIME
In Senegal, Dienaba
and her six children
travel 10km three
times a day to collect
water.

17. WATER
IS LIFE!

18. WATER IS LIFE!
3 minutes without air
3 days without water
30 days without food

19. WATER IS
DIGNITY

20. WATER IS DIGNITY
Imagine you can’t
attend school for days
a month because you
have your period…