Willingness and ability to pay for water&sanitation

In many countries in the world, above all in the periurban and rural areas, the water supply network is not available and sanitation facilities are rare and shared among many households, if existing at all. Paying for water supply and for the provision of sanitation facilities could be the right solution also for developing countries, but how should the charging scheme look like? And how much would be rural and periurban households willing to pay? And wouldn’t the low ability to pay of such households hinder the process of developing a sound WSS network? This video gives a good overview of the water and sanitation supply around Lusaka, Zambia, and illustrates a possible charging option: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJmWN921EtQ I would be really interesting to know what you all think about this topic!

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1. It was in 2000, when the UN's mission known as MDG or Millennium Development Goal was established for developing countries to halve the population without access to safe drinking water by 2015 and another target was to halve to halve the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation, to reduce the rate of onder 5 years children mortality due to the water-borne disease and mothers who dies in child-birth from infections due to poor facilities.But time is running out and many countries are still way of track.I think that is very important for the concerned countries to increase the education awareness in order to sensitise the population to build their own toilets to stop defecating in rivers and fields.The cost of water can be raisonable not for the poor to pay for rich people with transparence the willing to pay will be increased. Now, I welcome you to add your comments on these interesting topic.