Households’ assessment of the economic value of specific steps along a water
development path (i.e., user values) will be highly relevant to the State in
evaluating specific infrastructure investments. Users’ perceptions about the
economic value of water interventions must be carefully considered because
they play a large part in determining how water-related services are used, and
also because financing capital-intensive projects is always challenging for the
State. Some cost recovery from users is typically needed, and if users’ demand
(economic value) is low, collecting revenues from users will be difficult.allenging (and
risky from the State’s perspective).