1. Water Supply and Sanitation:
- Emphasis on ensuring that the poor are served;
- Commercial viability of utilities;
- Separation of provider and regulator;
- Increasing role of the private sector through a variety of methods, ranging from management contracts to full privatization;
- Working with independent small-scale water providers and scaling up their involvement;
- Developing approaches which distinguish between large cities and small towns;
- Building on the emerging PSD ideas on output-based aid;
- Emphasis on transparency of process and legal and institutional framework;
- Capacity building for regulators;
- Growing emphasis on sanitation and sewerage;
- Emphasis on greater physical and economic productivity of water;
- Greater attention to basin-wide rather than farm-level efficiency;
- Addressing the perverse effects of subsidies for pumping groundwater;
- Linking irrigation reform with broader development strategies, with attention to the political economy of reform;
- Linking irrigation reform with broader water resource management approaches, with increasing attention to water allocation and water rights issues;
- Strengthening emphasis on greater productivity from existing investments, with attention to improved efficiency and conservation;
- Upscaling user involvement through water user associations and improved accountability systems, based on successful global best practice;
- Improving regulatory frameworks, financial viability, and improved performance through benchmarking, competition, and greater involvement of the private sector ;
- Increasing emphasis on salinity, waterlogging, drainage, and water quality management in irrigation.
- Reaching the poor with electricity services;
- Stimulating competition among energy suppliers;
- Commercial pricing and enterprise viability;
- Expanded private sector participation;
- Mitigate risks beyond the control of private investors and private risk insurers in energy supply;
- Developing and strengthening objective, transparent regulation;
- Spreading the lessons of reform from early reformers;
- Reducing the CO2 emission intensity.
- Promote better policy, regulatory, and institutional frameworks for sustainable environmental management;
- Work across sectors to enhance the environmental benefits of projects and programs that provide access to infrastructure;
- Greater attention to rights and market-based instruments;
- Attention to water resource management and climate change;
- Inclusion of environmental flows and ecosystem management in water management; Improve safeguard systems and practices;
- Promotion of Strategic Environmental Assessments to move "upstream" in the decision-making cycle;
- Promoting environmentally and socially sustainable private sector development;
- Focusing on the positive linkages between poverty reduction and environmental protection;
- Focus first on local environmental benefits, and build on overlaps with broader benefits;
- Link the level of our efforts to our clients' overall commitment.
Source: World Bank Water Strategy, 2001
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