Piped water protects drinking water from contamination, prevents the burden of carrying water, and is more sustainable than self-supply.

Piped water into the home is the direct pathway to achieve SDG 6, the global goal for safely managed drinking water, but at current rates of progress this goal won’t be reached for at least 50 years.

Most water service providers in low-resource regions are stuck in a spiral of decline: poor service quality leads people to invest in private water supplies, further draining the revenue needed to make improvements.

Public investment in water and sanitation needs to increase threefold to reach SDG6 by 2030, yet each year 28% of allocated funds are not spent.

Results-based funding models link investment to performance, but require so much up-front risk that only well-funded utilities or NGOs can qualify.