These are the people most in need of huge injections into infrastructure, especially of water and sanitation. Right now, when we talk about the provision of water to these people, we talk about them going to a local tap and queuing up for water. When we talk about access to water for you, we talk about you just turning on the tap. They have the least protection from society and the economy. In the cities, on the other hand, the poor continue to pay the highest rates for water and we continue to subsidise those in industry while a hefty number of them continue to pollute our rivers.