Water storage financing

Does water finance need more robust data?

The availability of more robust water data (Chapter 9) is a requisite for changing the scale and quality of water-related finance across all streams, and enabling the use of the financial mechanisms and tools explored in this chapter. Key financing strategies that address the water cycle’s imbalance include:

What is a Water Financing Framework?

The framework provides a set of strategic directions and a customizable roadmap for the public sector, private sector, international organizations, intermediaries, and others to collaborate towards catalyzing greater financing and innovation for the water sector.

Why should companies scale up finance for water?

As noted in the World Bank Group’s Scaling Up Finance for Water report, companies play a vital role in driving technological innovation and digitalization, and performance-based management and delivery of water infrastructure and services.

Why are water-related investments so important?

Water-related investments deliver essential and measurable benefits for water security, which is the linchpin of our economies. Yet, a substantial financing gap persists.

How can we invest in water infrastructure?

Apply a coordinated and lateral perspective to water infrastructure investment, by exploiting the expanding universe of specially purposed financing. Climate bonds, corporate sustainability investment and regional economic initiatives provide new and largely untapped sources of capital.

How can water sector investments improve the business case?

Strengthening the interlinkages of the water sector with other sectors (e.g., renewable energy use and energy efficiency, resource recovery, ecosystem services, and landscape management) can also improve the business case for water sector investments.