Water Stabilization Initiative
 

INTRODUCTION

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     “Water Stabilization Initiative” brings forth a multi-faceted, long-term, proactive approach to mitigate the effects brought on by droughts and floods within various nations. This organization is focused on the long-term planning to alleviate droughts by capturing flood waters, and channel this water to be repurposed during an impending period of drought. By utilizing this critical human resource, we desire to assuage suffering that is caused by the extremities of water.

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    The over-arching goal is to restore balance to socio-economic activities, and help families, communities, and nations recover efficiently after a natural disaster. Therefore, by providing a critical element of life, we are maintaining economic outputs in regard to food and livestock, mitigating inflation and disease, and preventing migration. An indirect component is to avoid conflict based on water needs, migration, economic ruins, or any other means that would provide a context for violence.

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HOW WE TACKLE THE PROBLEM

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   Observing weather patterns, our team will promptly deploy during flooding. We will encapsulate the water on the outskirts of the vociferous water flows and/or during times of stagnant water once the water’s force no longer poses a threat to someone being submerged. As we build relations within a community, we hope to train and temporarily employ locals to assist our efforts in capturing the flood water as well as eventually transporting it, thus providing economic inputs for their families during the transition after disaster.

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    Our primary purpose during flooding is water capture but another component will be to ease suffering. This will entail capturing water in 55-gallon barrels and then transporting them to a central location where they will be stored and cleaned during a waiting period. We will also partner with existing local organizations and governments to facilitate the distribution of emergency supplies. In doing so, we will be building relations with local partners and residents to foster relations with community members.      

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     In the interim period before a drought transpires, we will store and clean the captured flood waters using cleaning supplies and water filters in order to be used for plant life, future human consumption, as well as maintaining the continuation of life regarding livestock. A byproduct of this will prevent over-usage of existing water supplies and groundwater. After treating the water for contaminants, our organization will transport the water to distressed communities. 

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     Primarily, this captured flood water will be furnished to agrarian and pastoral communities during a drought to ensure agricultural output and continuation of the lifespan of livestock. This will allow existing water supplies to be used primarily for civilians while we provide provisions for continued economic growth. As the drought becomes more calamitous, we will provide clean, pure, uncontaminated water needs for human consumption.  

       

     We will also work with local populations to establish logistics for the deliverance of water during an impending drought. During a drought, we will transport and supply the treated flood water to the region being afflicted by the drought. Our transport will be contingent on the available resources within each region.  Upon delivery, we envision drip-drop agriculture components to ensure water maximizing efficiency while increasing crop yields. This will also restore soil moisture to ensure continuation of growth.

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     As we grow as an organization, we envision providing further assistance to local populations. This is to include the distribution of seeds, as well as the replenishment of livestock who perished during the floods. This will help subsistence farmers recuperate their losses over the long term and allow the most vulnerable populations to continue their economic outputs. A byproduct of this is also designed to prevent further debt to farmers, who would otherwise borrow additional money to replace any crops or livestock that perished during the disasters.

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    At some point, we will provide water to a certain region to ensure that grasslands grow in order to provide nomads and pastoralists a place to feed and water their livestock as they travel around, thus mitigating conflict based on a need to feed their cattle; a byproduct of this will be to prevent further theft of livestock, since a growing herd will be given ample food, instead of animals dying off due to a lack of food and/or water.      

 

Mitigation Efforts

• Flooding:

  • Providing temporary yet critical income and stabilization to lives upended by natural disasters, by employing locals to help us capture the water

• Droughts:

• Water security

  • Adding water to existing ground-water supplies

  • Providing water for agriculture                       

    • Maintaining current water levels for human consumption

    • Limiting dual-use  

      • Providing water for crops & animals so that existing water supplies are furnished for human needs

• Increasing Crop Yields

  • Utilizing Drip-drop tools

    • Prevent over-usage & squandering of water

    • Constructive use of existing water supplies

• Food Security

  • Agricultural sustainability

• Stabilization of Food Prices                                  

• Stabilization of Economic Output

  • Continued:

    • Agricultural supplies

    • Livestock begets more livestock, Maintaining a life-cycle

• Prevent Displacement of Populations, Forced Economic Migrations

• Reducing International Community’s Need to Provide Aid

  • Redirecting and maximizing international resources

• Prevention of Malnutrition affecting Local Populations

  • Thus, enabling the population to grow in a healthy manner

    • Malnutrition has been shown to stint the growth of kids & their long-term development, affecting future generations