This meeting is aimed at providing specialists interested in economics, statistics, and financing of water and sanitation with the opportunity of getting together and constituting a forum to debate on how utilities are financed, their various water tariff structures and their measurement of performance, national and regional water industry statistics, water facts, water consumption and charging figures.

A parallel conference will be organized at the same venue by the IWA Specialist Group on Strategic Asset Management entitled Asset Management of Medium and Small Wastewater Utilities. Arrangements have been made for participants to attend this event.