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The mission of the organization "People And Water" is to
provide services to municipal and rural communities, mostly within
the Carpathian Euroregion. The goals are to solve the economic,
social, cultural and environmental problems on a grassroots level by
encouraging citizens to be proactive through development, renewal
and promotion of the traditional culture and diversity of this
region.  We
Are Here for the People
Five years ago we started the new local organization ,
"The Slovak Association for Protection of Nature" at the
Regional Co-ordinating Committee in Kosice-vidiek. Our goal was to
prepare an alternative water management concept, "Water for the
3rd Millennium". We did not anticipate what we were going to
face in our quest for attaining this sustainable development. Today,
when we are evaluating five years of our existence, there is no
doubt that our decision was correct. For the first time in Slovakia,
the environmental NGO sector has produced alternative programs that
offer our society more economical, socially productive and
ecologically more acceptable solutions to relevant problems related
to the environment. During the preparation of our proactive programs
("Water for the 3rd Millennium", "Blue
Alternative", "An Alternative Water Management Conception
for Eastern Slovakia", "Village of the 3rd Millennium in
the Carpathian Euroregion"), based on grassroots principles, we
have personally felt that this is the best and most effective way
towards the solution of the problems facing Slovak society today.
These are, unfortunately, tossed about in serious economic, social,
cultural and environmental problems. It is even more important from
the point of view of a society that has suffered the trauma of
communist ideology, which had been preventing a free competition of
independent ideas and alternative solutions of problems for decades.
We are here for the people, have strived, and will continue to
strive to help people to understand that there are more economical,
socially more righteous, culturally more valuable and
environmentally more acceptable solutions, which will satisfy the
needs of public. At the same time, it will enrich us by providing a
more tolerant and humanistic relationship with the whole living and
non-living nature, including man. This is what we, leaders and
volunteers, friends and supporters of our non-profit organization ,
"People And Water", strive for. We are here, and we
specifically want to participate in solving the problems of Slovak
society and of the whole BLUE PLANET.
Michal Kravcik
Chairman of the NGO People And Water
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