1. Incentivate local districts to promote festivities in its communities in order to promote the Interamerican Water Week with activities such as:
• Publishing a school newsletter on conservation of natural resources, especially water.
• Research, in History clases, on technologies used in the management of hydric resources in former cultures.
• Motivational speeches on the importance of the environment and proper water use.
• Identifying the main local water problems, its causes and possible solution.
2. Call a meeting to work on the main problems of water contamination and inadequate use of its sources.
• Ensure the participation of all different users and entities involved in the contamination problems: urban and rural consumers, farmers, manufacturers, miners, private businesses, technical schools, research centers, non-governmental organizations, local authorities, universities, state departaments, environmental and watershed authorities.
3. Call the community, through the Health Departament and local non-governmental organizations, to seminars for discussion of the following topics:

• Water contamination.
• Its effect on plants, animals and population`s health.
• Environmental health promotion
• Preventive measures applied to the health of the environment and the general public.
1. Organize seminars calling the formal and informal users of the water sources to discuss prblems and seek solutions.

1. Incentivate schools to have bulletin boards displaying the following topics:
• Existing water sources.
• The different uses of water.
• Who causes water contamination.
• Effects of contamination to the environment and human health.
2. Promote seminars on Watershed Administration: Realities and Perspectives. Call the delegates from all the different users of the basin.
3. Organize meetings with local authorities` participation (mayors, councillors) to work on the following issues:
• The role of the government on the environmental administration.
• How to promote the participation of citizens in the local environmental administration.
4. Organize a special meeting with the particiption of all different State agencies to discuss the water resources environmental policies.
5. Promote painting contests on Water.

• Call a meeting to discuss the National Environmental Legislation.

• Capture, adapt, develop and spread appropriate technologies.
• Avoid the use of irrigation by flooding in agriculture and search for alternatives, such as irrigation by dropping or sprinkling.
• Use of strategies to diminish the residue formation and efficient water use (recycling) in the industry. Treat the residual waters before disposing of it.
• Recover and reverse the environmental deterioration processes which might have happened in the past and take over its costs.
• In the institutional and normative scope:
• Plan and apply local policies that respect the local and regional policies, in accordance to the national water policy.
• Create or strenghen, at local level, the water and land administrative authorities, linked to the administrative concept of hydric basins. Such authorities should be supported by concrete government bases, once they are the administrators and the ones responsible for the water management and conservation.
• Include delegates from all local population levels among watershed authorities.
• The complete administration of natural resources implies in organizing the users to form and execute management plans at each unit`s level, with technical and economical support from the government.
• The State`s initiative in the water resources management should encourge the participation of the organized population and users and guarantee the population`s organization and capability of proper use of natural resources.
• The more agents involved in the water resource management, the more evident becomes the need for the rules to be clear in order to facilitate each person`s participation and involvment in decision-making.
• Promote speeches in technical schools and local universities on the adoption of "clean" technologies. Call the productive sectors and include farmers, manufacturers, formal and informal entrepeneurs, private and State enterprises.
• Hold debates with the community to discuss technological alterantives to the problems related to water and environmental sanitation.
• Organize seminars with the counties on Norms, Jurisdiction and the Local Government role on the environmental subject. Publish and spread the reports.
• Through the Education Agency, work with the education centers making posters with the theme Rights to a Clean and Healthy Environment. Publish the best ones.

Examples of inadequate water use:

• Many populations establish themselves in waterside areas on the head of a watershed and have little water available in certain times of the year due to a lack of captation and damming areas.
• The majority of users are only concerned with the captation and use of the water they need, without thinking about the consequences of such uses to the nearby population and to the environment.
• All proposals to improvement of the water resources management shoud start by improving the attitude and behavior of the individual itself. It also has to involve the user's organizations and make room for participation and administration so they can have their say in decision making.

• Decrease in subterranean water.
• Reduction of the torrentials in times of drought.
• Increase in muddiness.
• Contamination by pathogenic organisms.
• Higher concentration of:
• Heavy metals
• Synthetic organic compounds
• Organic material
• Nitrates, etc.
• Decrease in the operational capacity of the water treatment plants.
• Ecological degradation.