Water and wastewater management

 In 2024, we invested in projects in the European Union and beyond that will result in an estimated:

• 13.7 million people with safer drinking water
• 5.9 million people with improved sanitation services
• 2 million people with reduced flood risk

The EIB supports investment that:

• increases secure access to water resources
• protects against floods and other destructive water-related events
• ensures reliable provision of sustainable and affordable water and wastewater services promote resource efficiency (energy, chemicals, water)

We help our clients to maximise their resources: in the wastewater sector, we finance facilities with a focus on energy and materials recovery, for instance bio-gas that turns recycled bio-waste into renewable energy.

Such integrated approaches, for example by using treated wastewater for irrigation, show that we can sustainably manage limited global resources.

You can find in our EIB water sector lending orientation general information on how we assess water projects for financing. This lending guidance focuses on water security.