New publication: benefits of investing in water and sanitation

On World Water Day, the OECD released our latest publication: "Benefits of Investing in Water and Sanitation: an OECD perspective". To mark the occasion, we posted a blog on the Guardian's blog on development issues. In this blog, we argued that reliable benefit information is needed to encourage users to invest in their own services (particularly when demand is weak, as for sanitation), to support critical public investment decisions, to optimise investment strategies and to allocate costs to those who are most willing to bear them.