Comments on messages World Water Day 2011

On  17 December 2010, the last day of the conference in Zaragoza, WWD 2011 messages were shared. Participants gave their inputs to the messages by writing the comments on posters that were displayed in the corridors of the venue.

Here is a summary of the comments and inputs:

• Proposed slogan for the messages under the sanitation and pollution theme: waste water is a liquid asset stream
• Education and capacity building were missing in the WWD 2011 messages
• There need to be concrete messages for what people can do at household level
• We need simpler and fewer messages
• Create the messages in such a way that they provide the solution
•  The word ‘local government’ is not reflected in the messages – they are the ones that have to make things happen at the local level
• Financing needs to go to local governments, not central governments

 More inputs received on the messages will be made available in the conference highlights booklet.