The «Sages for Water», a title established during work carried out in Kyoto in 2003 at the Citizens’ House for Water, fight for fair access for all to water. They pursue the objective of change and draw up strategies for implementing it. These changes concern attitudes, behaviour, institutions and access to funding etc.

The «Sages for Water» are people from different backgrounds: elected representatives, civil society stakeholders (NGOs, unions, consumers), opinion leaders (scientists, journalists artists etc.), financiers, representatives of local, national and international government, private, public and parapublic services providers and young people. All these people share, besides their commitment to international cooperation, knowledge of water management practices in the field.

The «Sages for water» express their views as citizens, as individuals and/or in the name of the Assembly of Sages for Water of which they are members. The Assembly of Sages for Water, chaired by the ISW, is specifically concerned with four issues:

• The Right to Water and Sanitation
• Decentralised Financing
• Contractualisation
• The Shared Vision