The goals and objectives to resolve the water scarcity fall into three categories: environmental, social and political, in which all solutions require a certain amount of funding and public outreach. The environmental goals mainly focus on implementing technologies to increase efficiency and/or conserve water, and to reduce water pollution. The environmental goals include adopting more sustainable agricultural practices, reducing salinity and acidity levels, and increasing water management practices. The social goals include improving health and educating the Sudanese citizens about environmental practices that will ultimately result in the conservation of water. The political goals include overcoming the barrier of the outdated treaties with Egypt limiting the amount of water Sudan can withdrawal from the Nile. The political goals also include policy requiring proper water resource management and regional coordination of water allocation and distribution between the different states within the Sudan.

In order to accomplish all of the objectives, the solutions need to follow a certain time line of implementation. The implementation of certain components of the solution relies on the success of implementing other components. The components of the solution can be broken up into four tiers that are based on the time of implementation:

• Tier 1: implement within 5 years
  
• Solutions that can be immediately implemented and allow for the success of the following components of the solution
  
• Educational programs
• Renegotiated treaties
  
• Tier 2: implement within 10 years
  
• Solutions that require legislative changes and cultural acceptance:
• Change in agricultural practices
• Technology adoption and implementation 
• Tier 3: implement within 15 years
  
• Solutions that require legislative changes:
  
• Improved water infrastructure
• Tier 4: achieve within 15 years
• The outcome of implementing tiers 1 - 3
• Reduced pollution levels
• Improved health