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The project aims to empower citizens in keeping clean their rivers, foster cooperation with authorities in wise use of watercourses. Based on our experience, if locals get in direct contact with water, they understand better the importance of waters for economic well-being, for a healthy environment and for reinforcing the communal identity (mainly smaller localities). Therefore, citizens grow interested in checking the authorities, in asking for solutions (infrastructure, smart development ideas, cleaning) and in participating in decision-making. A network of public authorities, NGOs, experts, schools can generate initiatives for effective, replicable solutions to strengthen sustainable communities. In 2019, our association initiated an Alliance, with the aim to improve legal framework / regulations to allow easy public access to water, to adopt modern, ecological water management solutions, to find ways to build adequate infrastructure for public access to water, to promote projects to transform waters from a merely cultural resource into a sustainable development engine and to harmonize access to water, landscaping works with flood protection requirements. We will evaluate the roles/competencies of members, find new members, specialize them (conference, access to best practices and experts, catalog of ideas, online platform), support the Secretariat of the Working Group with the Ministry of Environment, evaluate legislation, collect new legislative proposals, internal competitions, public consultations, educational workshops for children, national promotion campaign. The beneficiaries will be the members of the network, local / central authorities, citizens, students, teachers. Based on their expertise, the partners will mainly contribute to the drafting of the manual of communication procedures and collection of good practices, to the legislative research, consultations and collection of legislative proposals.