Pricing water resources to finance their sustainable management

The cost of managing water resources is increasing due to increased demands from urbanisation, population growth and climatic threats – to name but a few challenges. Financing is not only needed for infrastructure and services, but also for governance, regulation, monitoring, training and capacity building. If we want to manage water sustainably, it costs money. The EUWI Finance Working Group has just published a resource to help address this issue:

Pricing water resources to finance their sustainable management - A think-piece for the EUWI Finance Working Group

In addition, the EUWI Finance Working Group together with partners such as GWP, OECD, and UNEP-DHI have prepared various papers and think pieces on this topic to raise awareness and to stimulate discussion among policy-makers and managers in developing countries, as well as officials in development cooperation agencies.