The Water Blog | Funding a water-secure future

A new report by the World Bank, “Funding a Water Secure Future: A Global Assessment of Public Spending," quantifies for the first time how much governments spend on water and the size of the financing and funding gaps that must close to meet people’s needs and achieve the SDG goals. Yet, to meet the SDG targets, we estimate that the 113 developing countries included in our analysis need to increase their spending in the WSS subsector by US$131.4 to US$140.8 billion annually—almost tripling current expenditure levels.