Identify Strategic Players
- Current providers of clean water products/resources/services
- Private and governmental agencies/organizations who are involved in clean water efforts
Identify best practices at providing clean water to needed areas
- Develop approaches to address immediate needs, short term needs and long term needs
- Identify current and pending research/products/services
- Cast vision on needed research/products/services
- Identify areas of need & those currently meeting those needs in the identified areas
Secure buy-in for current providers/agencies in this coordinated effort
- Establish a provisional executive team to head the effort until the next summit, so all involved can evaluate the benefit of the effort.
- Establish details for next annual summit
- Identify topics to be addressed at the next annual summit
- Identify issues to be addressed prior to the next annual summit
- Potentially establish a mid-year summit of key leaders/providers to keep matters on track
Develop plans/approaches to meet the needs
- Develop an implementation plan
- Develop a central web site with resources, providers and best practices information
- Promote the need worldwide – establish an identifiable name/branding for the effort.
- Identify specific ways for people/agencies and governments to respond to the needs, provide funding, provide volunteer work, providing needed resources and services
- Identify or establish a central command/clearinghouse for this effort
- Identify potential areas of cooperation among current providers/agencies