 The basin agencies finance themselves through charges for water abstraction and wastewater discharge by utilities and industries.In rural areas, investment subsidies are available from the National Fund for the Development of Water Supply ("Fonds National pour le Développement des Adductions d’Eau", FNDAE) This fund, created in 1954, is funded by a surcharge on all water bills (55% of funding) and by a share in the revenues of the public agency in charge of organizing horse race betting, the (45%).The FNDAE has an annual budget of 145m Euro.