Sustainable and Integrated Water and Sanitation Policy 2012-2021.

The vision of the present Sustainable and Integrated Water and Sanitation Policy 2012-2021 is to safe water to sustain life. Its mission foresees that Tuvalus shall have by the year 2021 a safe, reliable, affordable and sustainable water supply; with proper and improved eco-sanitation to fulfil island communities’ basic needs as well as meeting the sustainable development needs of the country.
The goals of the Policy are as follows: 1) To provide a safe, reliable, affordable and sustainable water supply; 2) To manage and conserve scarce water supplies; 3) To establish and maintain effective early warning and response systems; 4) To enable effective, equitable and integrated governance of water and sanitation; 5) To increase community awareness and participation in the management of water and sanitation; 6) To improve access to reliable, affordable and environmental sustainable technologies; and 7) To improve the affordability of water and sanitation services and increase access to sustainable sources of finance. In order to achieve Goal 7, Tuvalu will seek, inter alia, to develop financial mechanisms to ensure that water and sanitation management is sustainable over the long-term. Also all the other Goals are followed by provisions on strategies for implementing purposes. Point 7 of the Strategies to achieve Goal 1, i.e. to provide a safe, reliable, affordable and sustainable water supply underlines that the pricing of the Government water should be reviewed, including water generated by desalination plants, with a view to achieving both sustainability and affordability
The first Guiding Principle of the present Policy is that access to safe drinking water and sanitation is a fundamental human right. Access to facilities should not be confined to certain sectors of the community, and the WSP aims to ensure that the daily needs of all Tuvaluans, including the most vulnerable, are met.