Corruption in the water sector
The sector also exhibits additional characteristics that suggest a high potential for corruption, including: a large flow of public money, often including uncoordinated donor, national, and local funds; opaque investment decisions, influenced by politics; the monopolistic nature of service delivery, coupled with the failure of sector financing and cost recovery, problematic tariffs and subsidies, and the increasing role of the informal market; the cost of sector assets; the asymmetry of information between user and provider; and the heterogeneity of sector stakeholders, and complexity of systems, levels of services, and institutional roles and functions (World Bank, 2007).
Julien Harneis