The South Asian experience: Financial arrangements for facilitating local participation in Water and Sanitation Services (WSS) in poor urban areas: Lessons from Bangladesh and Nepal
2009
Meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of halving, by 2015, the proportion
of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation services (WSS),
as envisaged in target 10 of the MDGs, encompasses significant financial challenges.
Even though there is no consensus about the actual financial implications for achieving
the goal, it is clear that a vast amount of additional resources are needed (Mehta et al,
2005). Estimates for the total amount of funding required to achieve MDG target 10
range from between US$6.5 billion and US$75 billion per year. Table 18.1 shows data
for the coverage of WSS in Bangladesh and Nepal in 2002, suggesting that great efforts
will have to be devoted to enhance sanitation coverage, both in rural and urban areas in
these two countries. Moreover, Bangladesh is particularly far from reaching the target for
drinking water, and in both countries the chances of success are hampered by chronic
water shortages in urban areas.
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