It states that “Member States shall take account of the principle of recovery of the costs of water services, including environmental and resource costs, having regard to the economic analysis and in accordance in particular with the polluter pays principle”. They can be understood as constituted by the principles that define who should pay for water management and the mechanisms that allow to put those principles in practice. They increasingly acknowledge that meaningful participation of water stakeholders in the definition of the policy framework would help to get it right and facilitate its implementation. This section sketches such a policy framework.