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Making Water Count—Integrated Risk-Return and Knowledge-Based Models for Water Investments

In: Water Risk Modeling

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  • Josien Sluijs

    (Aqua for All)

  • Blanca Méndez

    (Aqua for All)

  • Dieter Gramlich

    (DHBW – Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University)

Abstract

The world is not on track to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6), which is to ensure the availability and a sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Huge service and financial gaps hinder efforts and progress toward achieving universal access, especially in low-income countries. To close these gaps, more investments in water and sanitation are urgent. Particularly, micro, small, and medium enterprises struggle to get capital from public and private financial institutions. There is a need to provide these water and sanitation enterprises with the tools and funding they need to become sustainable and investment ready. Simultaneously, it is critical to increase access to finance for water and sanitation. In this chapter, we present the strategy and models developed by Aqua for All, an international foundation based in the Netherlands. Aqua for All implements comprehensive approaches to reduce the service gap by supporting market-based solutions and enabling SMEs to scale. At the same time, the foundation offers technical assistance (capacity building) and de-risking as well as develops innovative finance facilities in partnership with public and private investors that contribute to bridging the finance gap.

Suggested Citation

  • Josien Sluijs & Blanca Méndez & Dieter Gramlich, 2023. "Making Water Count—Integrated Risk-Return and Knowledge-Based Models for Water Investments," Springer Books, in: Dieter Gramlich & Thomas Walker & Maya Michaeli & Charlotte Esme Frank (ed.), Water Risk Modeling, pages 277-310, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-23811-6_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-23811-6_10
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