Water

Funding Facilities for Water

Water is key to driving down poverty and driving up development. Accessible and safe water supplies improve people’s health and save them time, which they can use to study, or improve their livelihoods. Improved sanitation, on the other hand, protects them from socially and physically degrading surroundings, health risks, and exposure to dangerous environmental conditions.

But ensuring the proper management of water resources and equitable delivery of water supply and sanitation services requires massive financing well beyond the capacity of individual countries and institutions. That is why ADB, with the help of its donors, established two funding facilities designed to promote water reforms and innovations in the Asia-Pacific region.

WooChong Um
Director, Energy, Transport and Water Division (RSID)
E-mail: wcum@adb.org

Karen Decker
Senior Financing Partnerships Specialist
E-mail: kdecker@adb.org