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Global Water Funding

Innovation and efficiency as enablers for safe, secure and affordable supplies

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Authors:
  1. David Lloyd Owen

    1. Envisager, Newcastle Emlyn, UK

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  • Discusses global progress towards fulfilling SDG 6
  • Proposes alternative solutions to lack of funding
  • Examines the reasons why countries are failing at implementing safe and sustainable water and sanitation for all

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management (PSNRM)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. The Case for Universal and Sustainable Access

    • David Lloyd Owen
    Pages 1-41

  3. Where We Are

    • David Lloyd Owen
    Pages 43-108

  4. Where We Need to Be

    • David Lloyd Owen
    Pages 109-144

  5. The Costs Involved

    • David Lloyd Owen
    Pages 145-187

  6. Funding Flows Today

    • David Lloyd Owen
    Pages 189-224

  7. The Gap Between Aspirations and Realities

    • David Lloyd Owen
    Pages 225-261

  8. Addressing Capital Costs

    • David Lloyd Owen
    Pages 263-293

  9. Lowering Operating Costs

    • David Lloyd Owen
    Pages 295-315

  10. Demand Management and Resource Recovery

    • David Lloyd Owen
    Pages 317-341

  11. Innovation, Efficiency and Affordability

    • David Lloyd Owen
    Pages 343-366

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 367-372
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About this book

Is safe and sustainable water and sanitation for all an unaffordable pipedream? This book surveys the worldwide development of water and sewage services and the challenges in meeting Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6) along with climate change, population growth and urbanisation. It explores the reasons why current SDG6 progress is failing, including weak policy implementation, staff shortages and inadequate funding, as well as the limited impact of aid funding. The author contends that despite a series of innovations, debt finance remains too small to address needs of developing economies. Therefore, instead of advocating new funding, this book proposes addressing the funding gap through technological innovation and more efficient management and procurement through a series of examples that have challenged traditional assumptions. 


After four decades of good intentions, SDG6 is making a difference in monitoring shortfalls for the first time, allowing for more effective responses. This book outlines the role of innovation in hardware development, procurement and installation, and discusses how network management and operations can most effectively address funding gaps. The potential for savings is considerable, if effectively replicated. New approaches are driving forward affordable resilience, including nature-based solutions such as upstream habitat enhancement to retain water and improve downstream water quality; the circular economy, including water, nutrient, energy and heat recovery from wastewater; and demand management. This book will be of great value to scholars, policy makers and practitioners interested in the global finance of sustainable water and sanitation.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Envisager, Newcastle Emlyn, UK

    David Lloyd Owen

About the author

David Lloyd Owen runs Envisager, advising multilaterals, governments, companies and financiers about water regulation, economics and policy. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Pictet Water Fund and has previously authored Smart Water Technologies and Techniques: Data Capture and Analysis for Sustainable Water Management (2018).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Global Water Funding

  • Book Subtitle: Innovation and efficiency as enablers for safe, secure and affordable supplies

  • Authors: David Lloyd Owen

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49454-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49453-7Published: 30 July 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49456-8Published: 31 July 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49454-4Published: 29 July 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2946-4331

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-434X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIX, 372

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Water, general, Environmental Geography, Development Studies

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