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Funding water projects is always challenging. When you consider water projects what would be your recommendation on a source of funding you would use and/or support?
Public private partnership - 30%
Citizen led private funding - 23%
Government agencies grant - 23%
Grant from a foundation - 15%
Other please comment - 7%
Comments:
Citizens should have a stake in the water project. Their ownership and support is important for long term success. We need a combination of funding methods for water projects. Most utility projects are funded by a combination of government grants and the utilities own capital improvement funds. Public / private funding also works well.
We think it is important as was suggested here that multiple forms of funding need to be considered, pursued, and used in water projects. This, we believe, will insure the sustainability of the project.
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