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Author: Dominque Schmachtel

Water that is treated and delivered has a cost and water utilities require sufficient revenue from their customers, whether public or private to cover these costs. However, non-payment of water bills leads to missing finances and are causing several impacts on the utilities in terms of water supply generation and investments in water network expansion. In Kenya, an issue of non-payment of water bills does exist and arrears by public institutions often account for a high percentage of the total...

The Rural Water Supply Network held the webinar "Increased Resource Mobilisation for rural WASH in Africa", where SWIM and Water Aid presented the impacts of governmental non-payment on the WASH financing landscape in rural areas based on the research conducted for the global advocacy campaign Government pay your water bills!. Find the complete presentation here:   https://vimeo.com/475459128   This session addressed a scarcely mentioned but globally prevalent issue: governmental non-payment of water bills. The result is the deprivation of water utilities of the indispensable resources...