You call a plumber, who tells you that there are holes in the pipes, and that it will cost you 1,000 to repair it. You tell him to turn up the water pressure instead.

Make no mistake something will come out, though not necessarily where it should.

NEW YORK Imagine that you get in the shower, turn on the water, and nothing comes out. You call a plumber, who tells you that there are holes in the pipes, and that it will cost you 1,000 to repair it.

Piping clean water without improving sanitation can in some cases actually exacerbate the spread of infectious agents.

Make no mistake something will come out, though not necessarily where it should.

We have already seen the liquidity intended to boost US bank lending instead leak through the cracks into markets as diverse as agricultural commodities, metals, and poor country debt.

Estimates of what people in poor nations are willing to pay for piped water do not exceed the costs for many water and sanitation projects.

The team learned of a European Commission and World Bank initiative to fund the repair of parts of the existing water treatment installation and the rehabilitation of the trunk mains, as well as to invest in groundwater production infrastructure.

(d) The seat of the explosion (the resulting crater) was flooded with water in the days following the explosion after the local authorities Police had failed to prevent water from being turned on and released into the crater through the fractured pipes at the scene, thereby damaging or even eliminating vital evidence

New research for Copenhagen Consensus reveals that the full cost of piping water to a household is as high as 80 per month more than most households in rich countries pay and far beyond the means of most families in developing countries.