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Investment efficiency in the Italian water service industry: a benchmarking study using data envelopment analysis (DEA)
The paper presents a benchmarking study of the Italian water service industry using data envelopment analysis. Sample investigated in the study includes 38 optimal territorial areas (ATOs), where the ATO is a well circumscribed geographical area where the provision of integrated water services is considered efficient. Results of DEA implementation show that the average pure technical and scale ...
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Achieving sustainable water supply through better institutions, design innovations and Water Safety Plans – an experience from Nepal
Sustainable functionality of rural water infrastructures is a major challenge in Nepal, as elsewhere. This paper looks at systems for improved community-based water supply and sanitation management in the Rural Village Water Resources Management Project (RVWRMP), in mid and far west Nepal. The paper analysed 496 rural, community-managed drinking water and sanitation schemes (with 30 to 250 ...
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Is strategic asset management applicable to small and medium utilities?
Urban water infrastructures provide essential services to modern societies and represent a major portion of the value of municipal physical assets. Managing these assets rationally is therefore fundamental for the sustainability of the services and to the economy of societies. “Asset Management” (AM) is a modern term for an old practice—assets have always been managed. In recent ...
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Is strategic asset management applicable to small and medium utilities?
Urban water infrastructures provide essential services to modern societies and represent a major portion of the value of municipal physical assets. Managing these assets rationally is therefore fundamental for the sustainability of the services and to the economy of societies. “Asset Management” (AM) is a modern term for an old practice—assets have always been managed. In recent years, ...
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Wiseworks
Managing utilities, water services and infrastructures requires high standards that must be  based on reliable, structured information. It’ is essential to promote solid methodologies for a sustainable and clear approach to progressive asset management policies, improving business processes while delivering efficient services. We believe that value can be added through ...
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A service-oriented approach to assessing the infrastructure value index
Many national and regional administrations are currently facing challenges to ensure long-term sustainability of urban water services, as infrastructures continue to accumulate alarming levels of deferred maintenance and rehabilitation. The infrastructure value index (IVI) has proven to be an effective tool to support long-term planning, in particular by facilitating the ability to ...
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Assessing human resources renovation needs in water utilities
Human resources are one of the most important assets of water utilities (WUs), being responsible for assuring systems management and playing an important role in the tacit forms of organizational knowledge. In organizations with responsibility for managing extensive, diverse infrastructure with long life-cycles, with adequate service and acceptable risk levels, knowledge transfer between ...
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Inverse infrastructures: self-organization in the water services
In urban communities, infrastructures that support living are indispensable. There is increased interest in alternative ways of providing such support systems, including semi-autonomous infrastructures resulting from the self-organization of local actors. In this study, we analyze the emergence and management of such infrastructures in light of the theory of complex adaptive systems, within ...
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What lessons can be learnt from studying a Roman hydraulic structure in a little village in Southern Italy?
The aim of this paper is to study a Roman hydraulic structure in a little village in Southern Italy in order to learn some lessons from the past and identify potential ideas for implementation. Despite increasing global urbanization a significant percentage of people inhabiting inland areas need critical infrastructure service including water supply systems. The fountain system under ...
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Innovation results of IAM planning in urban water services
The requirement to provide urban water services continuously while infrastructures are ageing, imposes the need for increasingly sustainable infrastructure asset management (IAM). To achieve and maintain adequate levels of service, the AWARE-P IAM methodology has been applied in collaborative projects launched by the National Civil Engineering Laboratory, in partnership with IST (Technical ...
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Sustainable financing: We know we can… but how?
Ensuring water and sanitation services for all depends on securing appropriate financing, an issue that has long been a major challenge for the water sector. The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes this challenge all the more urgent. How much money do we need to expand and improve water services infrastructure? What about financing for operations and maintenance? Can we ...
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Desalination Provides Drinking Water for Egypt’s Nile Delta
Contracted $20 million, 40,000 m3/d plant will serve New Mansoura development Along the coast of Egypt’s Nile Delta, construction of the remarkable, visionary city of New Mansoura was decreed in 2017. Its design, which includes a vine-like peninsula with outcroppings, is reminiscent of Dubai’s Palm Islands, World, and Universe artificial archipelago developments. The first phase of ...
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No Silver Bullet Technology For Pipeline Condition Assessment
For utilities with large-diameter networks, waiting for failures to occur before repairing or replacing highly critical mains is not an option. With a large amount of buried water infrastructure reaching the end of its service life, operators have every incentive to take a proactive approach to asset management. Nowhere is this more critical than in busy urban centres. The fallout from an ...
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Drastic Measures Proposed as Chilean Drought Enters 13th Year
As millions face cuts to water use, how can desalination and water reuse increase water resilience? In a recent news conference, Claudio Orrego, governor of Chile’s Santiago metropolitan region, had a hard fact for the city’s nearly 7 million residents: “A city can’t live without water.” For the first time in Santiago’s 481-year history, there might not be ...
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