In France, as in a number of European countries,performance indicators (PIs) for monitoring waterand sanitation utilities have been significantly developed since the end of the 1990s. Todisseminate this information on the performance of water and sanitation utilities as widely aspossible and make relevant comparisons, ONEMA (now integrated into AFB) has been charged with creating a monitoring systemcompiling both descriptive data andindicators of the French services. ts role is to gather all data andperformance indicators from localauthorities or from their operators,to compare them and point out areasfor improvement. It then producesan annual consolidated nationalreport on the performance of waterand sanitation services.