The article studies the features of the functioning of water supply and sanitation sectors, characterizing it as a relatively independent administrative and economic sector in the housing and communal services system of the Republic of Belarus. A study was made of the distinctive features of the water supply and utilities sector from other sectors of the public utilities sector of the Republic of Belarus: the heterogeneity and complexity of the technological processes for the preparation and purification of water, the territorial unevenness of residence of consumers of services, state-regulated tariffs for water supply and sewage, arising from the social significance of this strategic resource