PASIDA Think Tank · Report · 2025
Paying for WASH: municipal finance and service reliability
An examination of how utility creditworthiness and O&M budgeting determine whether WASH infrastructure keeps working.
Key findings
Capital grants without O&M provisioning produce a five-year reliability cliff.
Utility creditworthiness improves fastest through billing and collection reform.
Methodology
Financial statement analysis of sample utilities plus service-continuity data (illustrative).