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The financial costs of water supply and sanitation services include operational and maintenance costs, capital investments, and management costs of water service providers (EC, 2003). These can be recovered through revenues from tariffs, associated taxes, and transfers of public funds (national and EU). While data availability on financial cost recovery and water service prices has improved between the 1st and 2nd RBMP cycles (Strosser et al., 2021), large contextual differences restrict comparative analyses. The service price varies both among RBDs within the same country and across countries, as it is influenced by national and local socio-economic policies and conditions, availability and accessibility of water resources, quality of the service, and the cost categories transferred to the user. Similarly, financial cost recovery calculations may vary due to methodological inconsistencies, and estimates should be interpreted with careful consideration of contextual factors like national regulation and reliance on public funding. For instance, in some cases national regulation does not allow service providers to charge users for the costs of infrastructure that has been paid with public funds.