The recommendations agreed upon during the 1^st day workshop were the following:

1. A permanent dialogue should be established among official bodies responsible for health and pollution prevention and control, and the corresponding beneficiaries, with the aim to analyze the factors that contribute to the problem and try to address them.
2. Views of all people concerned should be collected; this can be effected by encouraging all to fill the corresponding online questionnaire at the INECO web site.
3. Water available for potable water uses should be increased.
4. There is need for the rehabilitation of distribution networks in order to prevent mix with discharge.
5. Using active carbon to absorb toxic substances, as well as other substances produced from the interaction of chlorine used for disinfection, and organic materials. 
6. A survey of water networks should be performed, in order to map the problems per village, assess their severity and inform people on how to deal with water.
7. In areas of high risk, provisions must be made to provide bottled water at a very low price.
8. Egyptian standards for drinking water must become stricter. Mechanisms for real control of water quality should be developed, including trained personnel and laboratory equipment.
9. Simple, traditional ways should be sought in order to enable citizens to access safe water when (a) they do not have access to public water services or (b) there is a failure in the water supply system.
10. Instead of using drainage water for irrigation, new water supply sources should be sought.
11. Awareness on water resource protection and conservation should be enhanced, also through the organization of educational programmes on polluting activities and practices and on the current, significant environmental issues.
12. Practices that have adverse effects on water quality should be prohibited.
13. All sewage treatment stations should be equipped with modern technology.
14. Laws that allow for the disposal of industrial waste only after full treatment should be activated.
15. Disadvantaged villages must be supplied with sanitation and clean water services.