Water, Community Health and Hydro-responsible Predisposition

After the colossal efforts and means deployed for water literacy in rural community, the additional adoption of a hydro-responsible predisposition by rural population is an imperative backup to protect public rural health. Hydro-responsible predisposition suggests a natural tendency, an ingrained attitude, a built-in mindset oriented toward a responsible use, protection, and management of public manual water pumps and the water points. The target here is the development of a sense of responsibility in communitarians’ attitudes and inclinations vis-à-vis water’s world to replace the complacent attitudes, and back the promoted water literacy. The widespread propositions from diverse authors on the ground of water security and sustainability and public health preservation is water literacy and the implication of communitarians in water management. In rural communities, what lacks in addition to these propositions is a responsible predisposition in water management, an inner commitment, and more importantly an integral self-discipline centering and policing people’ interactions with manual water pumps and water points. Rationality clings to the proposition about the implication of communitarians in water management when it emanates from water professionals’ preevaluation and validation of the hydro-educational backgrounds of the targets or the people to be implicated. But the complication here is that despite the resources allocated to education, illiteracy is a major concern undermining the efforts for socio-community sustainable development and health promotion in rural communities