Austria has agreed to contribute $5 million to provide safe drinking water and sanitation services in remote and impoverished areas of the Asia and Pacific region.

The money provides resources to Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Water Financing Partnership Facility.

The program focuses on investment, reform, and capacity development in the areas of rural water services, urban water services, and river basin water management, an ABD press statement said Monday.

Asian Development Bank established the partnership program in 2006.

Other actual and intended commitments to the fund include $19.8 million from The Netherlands, about $32 million from Australia, about $5.5 million from Norway, the statement noted.