Guest Editorial: Water—A Global Challenge and a Priority for the OECD

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Notes

1. It should be noted that these figures are necessarily much larger than the finance that has been estimated to be required to achieve the water-related MDG (approximately US$30 billion), as it covers a much broader array of costs, including financial needs in the OECD (with much more sophisticated and expensive infrastructure) and financial requirements for operation, maintenance and rehabilitation of existing infrastructure which are usually not included in MDG estimates.