Value-based Water Education (VBWE) is part of HABITAT´s Water for African Cities Programme. At its second meeting held in the Hague in March 2000, a High-level (Ministerial) Advisory Group, comprising resposible Ministers from the six participating countries, adopted a resolution requesting the implementing agency to widen the scope of the Programme and introduce water education in the participating cities with a view to develop a new water-use ethic in african cities. The Advisory Group considered that the current water wastages in cities could be minimised by promoting water education in schools and communities within the urban context.