ABSTRACT
The previous chapter analyzed what it would cost to meet the Millennium Development Goals for water and sanitation at both global and national levels. This chapter analyzes the financial strategies that will be needed to cover these costs. Given the centrality of the financing issue—not to mention the passion that stakeholders on different sides of the debate bring to the table—this chapter tries to clarify several critical and often contentious issues related to the financing strategies needed to achieve a dramatic expansion of access to water supply and sanitation in the poorest countries of the developing world: What would it take? Who would foot the bill? And how could it be done?
