7. How can we accelerate action, mobilize consumers, governments and businesses, and scale up solutions in ways not done before?

• actually, doing more of what is working
• cross-regional and cross-country knowledge sharing, better best practice communications as well as failures to learn from
• stronger collective advocacy
• system-thinking, with States playing a primary role
• more water research investment
• nurtured and supported true multi-stakeholderism
• data sharing and making information easily accessible

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6. How can we build a more personal appreciation for water to encourage less wasteful behaviour

• Creating public awareness
• Through education from childhood
• Knowing the source of our water
• Government should play a key role in communicating the importance of conserving water 
• Encouraging reporting
• Financial reward
• Creating consumer and community buy-in
• Giving consumers practical steps to follow and a way of measuring their impact
• Water pricing, progressive tariffs
• Brand campaigns 

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5. What is the core role each actor should be championing and focusing on in order to drive progress on SGD #6?

• Government: sound policy, ensure enforcement, scaling up market-based solutions, subsidies, bring consensus on an action plan and implement with support from the rest of actors,
• Corporations: internal compliance, commitment, building credibility, collaborative philanthropy, support public institutions, foster innovation and science-based solutions
• NGOS: work with development financial institutions to launch innovative solutions, engaging the private sector and convening all stakeholders, creating space for dialogue
• For ALL: building bridges, becoming advocates, championing the business case for SDG6, engaging with each other more often and looking for a common approach

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4. What suggestions around innovative financing could be considered to overcome financial barriers to water security and water access & allow for more creative and innovative thinking on the matter?

• microfinance to guarantee access to finance by the poorest sectors
• portfolio guarantees to attract commercial capital
• impact investing
• bankable water solutions
• blended finance, using donor finance strategically to catalyze private investment
• shifting culture away from short-termism 
• multi-stakeholder Water Funds
• we need to multi-stakeholder collaboration to test and pilot scalable approaches

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3. How does the issue of governance connect to the successful scaling of water management and watershed security?

Good governance can:

• allow national collaborative planning, key for success!
• contribute through monitoring progress
• catalyze action being a mechanism of support
• build partnerships and trust
• align values and incentives among actors needed for progress
• promote inclusive approaches to water security
• move away from hierarchical power structures
• embrace accountability, transparency, legitimacy, public participation, justice and efficiency
• ensure equal representation across stakeholders
• empower poor and underserved communities

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2. What are some of the barriers to scale that we need to overcome in order to intervene on these water issues in a more meaningful way?

• Financing gap, the costs of constructing new infrastructure and maintenance are huge
• Data gap, we need new technologies to gather data and make informed decisions
• Weak policy environment and insufficient institutional capacity
• Lack of political will
• Finance for upstream activities, beyond cities, to make provision sustainable
• Scaling efforts around water resource management
• Building trust, joint accountability and recognition
• Learning from the past, scaling up what already works vs. constant pressure to innovate
• Lack of willingness from stakeholders to work together 

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1. Which initiatives & programmes do you think are making the most impact and why?

• Strong partnerships on the ground, developing common plans
• Action on different sectors of society
• Multi-stakeholder platforms for dialogue
• Encouraging and facilitating private sector contribution, finding the business case and commercial value!
• Transparency, disclosure and collaboration
• Sustainable, rational, economics-based solutions to closing the water supply-demand gap
• Working with institutions, developing long term partnerships and ensuring government and policy alignment
• Access to finance: families can access to loans to find long term solutions
• Addressing waterwaste policy barriers to make progress in this area