The mission of the Water Stewards Alliance (WSA) is to protect and conserve the waters of the world for to ensure clean, safe, and accessible water for all. This alliance brings together communities, governments, businesses, and individuals to address water-related challenges through collaboration, education, and advocacy. Key aspects of the mission include:
1. Conservation and Protection:
Preservation of Natural Water Sources: Safeguarding rivers, lakes, wetlands, and aquifers from pollution and overuse.
Sustainable Water Management: Implementing practices that promote the efficient use of water and the maintenance of healthy ecosystems.
2. Education and Awareness:
Public Outreach: Raising awareness about the importance of water conservation through campaigns, workshops, and educational programs.
Knowledge Sharing: Providing resources and information on best practices for water stewardship to communities and stakeholders.
3. Advocacy and Policy:
Influencing Legislation: Working with policymakers to develop and enforce regulations that protect water resources.
Promoting Responsible Practices: Encouraging industries and agriculture to adopt sustainable water management practices.
4. Community Engagement:
Building Partnerships: Collaborating with local communities, organizations, and international bodies to create a unified approach to water stewardship.
Empowering Individuals: Providing tools and resources for individuals to take action in their own lives to conserve water.
5. Innovation and Research:
Supporting Research: Funding and facilitating research into new technologies and methods for water conservation and purification.
Innovative Solutions: Promoting the development and implementation of innovative solutions to water-related challenges.
By fostering a culture of stewardship and responsibility, the Water Stewards Alliance aims to ensure that current and future generations have access to clean and plentiful water, supporting healthy ecosystems and thriving communities worldwide.
We support the World Water Community Network and highly recommend becoming a member of the community.
Join here: https://www.worldwatercommunity.com/
We also highly recommend becoming a part of the Water Stories Community founded by Zach Weiss. This is an incredibly inspiring community with important resources for protecting our waters and saving the world in the process! "Water Stories is a learning, training, and action platform focused entirely on Water Cycle Restoration. Water Stories offers a community-centered approach to solving our most pressing environmental crises."
Join and learn more here: https://www.waterstories.com/
This film on The Revived Water Cycle teaches us howe can "be a creative, constructive force within Earth’s ecosystem Humans as keystone species. This shift takes place by transforming the water-sheds that have been created, back into water-catchments. Community driven, decentralized water retention projects rehydrate landscapes and restore the health and vitality of ecosystems and communities. When we act for water, it creates positive ripple effects through the web of life!" Sharing this information is vital for revitalizing the waters within our communities!
Dr. Rajendra Singh’s river regeneration efforts in Rajasthan, India, where he transformed barren landscapes into fertile land through the revival of ancient water bodies. His work led to the recharge of aquifers, the return of flowing rivers, and the rejuvenation of local communities. The documentary illustrates how Singh's decentralized water retention techniques improved agricultural productivity, reversed migration, and reduced regional temperatures to combat drought, water security issues, and water scarcity. It also justly critiques the privatization of water, warning of its detrimental effects on ecosystems and community access.
In this video, Water Stories take a look at how different water and land management practices affect our fresh water supply. To easily understand how we manage the waters that give us life, we can think of the bank of fresh water in the Earth as a bank account. If we're always drawing from our bank account and never making any deposits, we all know how that goes. Eventually something comes up and we need a little extra and it's not there. Then we get into a cycle of increasingly severe and crippling debt. It becomes very difficult to get out of this feedback loop of scarcity. In contrast, if we're always depositing more into our bank account than we're drawing from it, we also know how that goes. When something comes up and we need a little extra, we have it on hand in our savings from a year when we had more than we needed. The same is true for the bank of fresh water in the Earth. But instead of money, it's the productivity, abundance, and health of life on land. The ecosystems that regulate our climate, and the healthy underground aquifers that provide surplus in times of need” (Water Stories).
Did we mention water is alive? In this interview, water researcher Veda Austin explores the innate innate intelligence of water.
"Veda views water from three distinct perspectives: Scientifically, as it changes state; artistically, as an element of design; and spiritually, as water enters a phase of fluidity between space and time. One does not need to look at water, in any form, long to recognize it as something special – it flows freely, sustains life, and is constantly changing form, never truly dying."
It is the spiritual aspect of water that broadens are horizons of this substance as not only essential to our life, but that which imbues it with meaning.