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Proposal - Clean Water Pilot Alliance (CWPA)
1. CLEAN WATER PILOT ALLIANCE (CWPA)
Response to the United Nations (UN) and U.S. Government (USG) Call for Solutions
in the framework of Water Security Initiatives
Author: Laura Gagliardone
2. CLEAN WATER PILOT ALLIANCE (CWPA)
Author: Laura Gagliardone
CONCEPT PAPER
Title of Proposed Alliance
The Clean Water Pilot Alliance (CWPA): a sustainable and affordable model linking water security
to humanitarian assistance, religion, and energy to advance innovation in Africa and the Middle East.
Overall goal of Alliance
The overall goal of the proposed alliance is to ensure water security and clean energy in Africa and
the Middle East (to be continued).
Also, the alliance will foster innovation through components, such as: (1) Clean Water Bank;
(2) Clean Water Youth; and (3) Clean Water School (to be continued).
Development Problem
Africa and the Middle East control 70 percent of the world's known oil reserves but have less than
1.5% of the world’s renewable freshwater resources. Increasing demands on a limited, contested
natural supply of fresh water, combined with changing climate, migration, and population growth
stress the dwindling supply, exacerbating tensions within communities and countries. To mitigate the
conflict and meet the basic human needs for water, a different path to water resources conservation,
management and use must be pursued. New transformational approaches to water-related challenges
that engage communities, promote local solutions, and include citizen-focused education must be
identified and rapidly brought to scale, zeroing in on water conservation, productivity, storage, supply
and reuse.
Objectives of Alliance
The CWPA will accelerate innovations to lead improved water supply and use and clean energy
access through pursuing the following objectives:
1. Water Efficiency and Reduction of Water Waste;
2. Water Capture and Storage;
3. Water Productivity;
4. Clean Energy and Storage;
5. Dissemination, Adoption and Scaling.
(To be continued)