Financing the water sector

摘要

If we are ever to reach the millennium development goals, much greater levels of finance will need to be raised, and sound systems of governance should be in place to manage them. Back in the 1990s, the topics of 'finance' and 'water' rarely converged. By and large, in rural areas, donor agencies provided grants for rural systems. In urban areas, the government (with support from donor agencies) subsidized water and waste-water utilities, and the development finance institutions sought to increase the participation (through capital investments, and operations and maintenance) of the international private sector.