The Embassies of Mexico, Denmark and Switzerland, the Mexican Institute of Water Technologies (IMTA), the Centre for Human Rights, the Centre for Environmental Justice in Africa, and the Landscape Architecture Programme of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT) of the University of Pretoria, along with the Regional Representation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), are organizing The Water Game Changers Award to:

 

• Create a culture of water based on the human right to water and sanitation, and to nature, and on a gender perspective.

• Increase awareness of the short and medium-term impacts of disruption to the water cycle.

• Create an understanding of the main sources of water loss and water pollution.

• Promote understanding of concepts such as sustainable development, nature-based solutions, systemic thinking, traditional knowledge, the circular economy, the Ubuntu economy, indigenous knowledge systems, and local ways of doing and knowing, and traditional and regenerative agriculture.

• Develop and innovate ecotechnologies and nature-based systems that are based on the water cycle to gear towards water autonomy and sovereignty, sustainable water generation for safe human use and consumption, agricultural and recreational use, and accessibility and affordability for all, including people living in townships and rural areas.

• Develop community-based approaches so that the ecotechnologies and methodologies that are (co-)created or (co-)developed with local communities can be integrated, acceptable and usable in communities for long-term transformative change. This includes indigenous knowledge systems and ways of thinking.

• Raise awareness/ education and share information with the public and communities.​