Reflections on Beyond Scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis (UN 2006)

I think we have all seen videos like this before...seeing water pipes funnel through piles of human excrement and then the poor fellow down the way drinking from these pipes. I believe we understand the gravity of this problem. One thing that caught my attention was that the journalist said that in order to make dents in this problem, African governments need to make a decision today to combat this problem. While I very much agree with this statement, it may be very difficult to actually address these problems when there is so much corruption in these very governments. This corruption I'm sure makes the allocation of resources to the problems of sanitation and potable water very difficult to address. Seems like the key is, how do we make sanitation and clean water monetarily attractive for governments so that they will look at it as a business venture and rather than a public health problem? If we shift the perspective in addressing this problem, could we talk corrupt governments into properly directing funds?