however in the case of major projects of irrigation infrastructure rehabilitation modernisation or refurbishment urbanindustrial water consumers through crosssubsidisation and taxpayers in most oecd countries continue to bear the main share of the capital costs with public agencies managing the water delivery systems even so water service infrastructure for urban and industrial water users is also frequently publicly financed oecd a evidence from studies of eu member states garrido and calatrava the united states wichelns b australia parker and speed mexico figure garrido and calatrava and turkey figure cakmak all confirm this trend