water asset Articles
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Sprinkle your investment portfolio with water!
We investigate the profitability of water–related investments and their diversification benefits in a portfolio context. Motivated by the need to understand whether or not water indices and water funds are desirable vehicles for investment, we analyse the performance of a major water index independently as well as within portfolios. Our results indicate that the water asset class outperforms ...
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Investment returns in the water industry: a survey
Although the water industry has become a topic of growing importance in the past decade, research on the returns on water investment is scarce. This paper provides a background to the development of the water industry, reviews existing studies on the performance of water investments, and identifies the research challenges in this area. The review finds that there are various ways for private ...
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Asset management system for business management of water suppliers
Many water suppliers in Japan are required to renew aged waterworks facilities systematically in spite of the decline in revenues due to the decrease in the population. Moreover, they are needed to build waterworks facilities with high earthquake resistance. Therefore, it is necessary for water suppliers to manage waterworks effectively and efficiently in order to build sustainable ...
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Water Asset Management International (WAMI) and Water Utility Management International (WUMI) platform migration
If you are a subscriber to WUMI and WAMI, from November 2015 to March 2016 you will be able to download your issues from the WaterWiki. As of 26th October, IWA Publishing will be sending an email to all subscribers with login and password details for the protected area on the Wiki platform. Continue reading the full ...
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Results and lessons from implementing the Water Assets Accounts in the EEA area
The United Nations System of National Accounting (SNA) framework provides an internationally agreed methodology for national economic accounts. SNA accounts are the main source of information for the internationally comparable economic aggregates and indicators which are used to assess the economic performance of countries. Examples are gross domestic product (GDP), value added, income, ...
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A framework for considering externalities in urban water asset management
Urban communities rely on a complex network of infrastructure assets to connect them to water resources. There is considerable capital investment required to maintain, upgrade and extend this infrastructure. As the remit of a water utility is broader than just financial considerations, infrastructure investment decisions must be made in light of environmental and societal issues. One way of ...
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Biomarble from Warden Biomedia range selected by WPL for their largest tertiary treatment plant provided for Yorkshire Water`s Danesmoor site - Case Study
WPL were challenged with the task to design and manufacture the largest bespoke modular steel wastewater process solution (N-SAF) the company have ever supplied. The unit had to handle 50 l/sec FFT, almost twice the average, so something out of the ordinary was devised. Yorkshire Water's Danesmoor site required a tertiary treatment plant to treat the residual ammonia from the wastewater being ...
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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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Water policy responses to drought in the MDB, Australia
This paper reviews water policy responses to drought in Australia, focusing on the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) during the two decades from 1997. This period, which includes the decade long Millennium drought, brought a much sharper focus to discussions of scarcity and value of water. The drought initially focused attention on rising salinity and environmental water availability, as action on ...
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Colombian oil revival hopes face electoral test
An upcoming election and auction round will help determine the country's oil fortunes The outcome of Colombia's election next week is being watched closely as the country attempts to reverse its sliding oil fortunes, which have suffered since the downturn started in late 2014. Colombians will head to the polls to choose a successor to Juan Manuel Santos on 27 May for the first-round vote, with ...
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A pathway to a more sustainable water sector: sustainability-based asset management
The water sectors of many countries are faced with the need to address simultaneously two overarching challenges; the need to undertake effective asset management coupled with the broader need to evolve business processes so as to embrace sustainability principles. Research has thus been undertaken into the role sustainability principles play in asset management. As part of this research, a ...
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Assessing UFW and Variable Water Rate Impacts, Use And Loss Metrics in a Declining Water Consumption Environment
Water utilities in North America have recently experienced significant downturns in water consumption arising, in large measure, from the economic slowdown and the effectiveness of water efficiency strategies implemented over the last few of years. The information presented in this study of water production, use and loss trends in Ontario Canada, is likely characteristic of many other countries ...
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Multiple conceptions of sustainable urban water systems: problem or asset?
This paper examines various conceptions that researchers and practitioners in the sector have about sustainable urban water systems, to discern what these conceptions are and whether they are complementary or divergent. The study is based on a literature review and field studies, including semi-structured interviews. The results show that the conceptions held by the various actors are largely ...
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Kansas Community Benefits by Turning Trouble into Treasure
(February 2006, as appeared in APWA Reporter http://www.apwa.net/Publications/Reporter/) Successful stormwater solutions abound in LenexaHistoric wisdom helped shape future planning in Lenexa, Kansas, where city and public works leaders have put the words of Albert Einstein into practice by developing innovative stormwater management solutions that will effectively address both quantity and ...
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Vitens Pressure transient localisation study - Case Study
Vitens implemented a pilot project to see how pressure transient monitoring could impact an optimised response to asset failure The water industry in the Netherlands is seeing that SMART systems are becoming much more important for the way that working practices need to adapt. An aging workforce sees local knowledge diminish, but a new workforce brings with it a new mindset and the requirement ...
By Syrinix Ltd
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Future challenges to asset investment in the UK water industry: the wastewater asset investment risk mitigation offered by minimising principal operating cost risks
This paper defines challenges currently facing the water industry globally that will affect water industry asset investment and development now and in the near future. Those challenges include energy price volatility, climate change regulation, asset capital costs and strategic resource considerations. This paper presents potential answers to these challenges in the context of the UK water ...
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Study on failure rate analysis for water distribution pipelines
Many of the waterworks facilities in Japan were constructed during the rapid economic growth period. Today, the deterioration and renovation of these aged facilities have become a pressing issue. There are approximately 600,000 km worth of water pipelines laid out across Japan, accounting for about 70% of the nation's water-related assets (totalling ¥40 trillion). To provide water that is safe to ...
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Emergency Vs. Maintenance Repairs for Utilities.
With populations rising throughout towns and cities in the United States there is a growing need to improve the nation’s water and wastewater infrastructures. Reliable water provisions are needed for continued development and sustenance. At the same time, it is necessary to properly discharge wastewater clinically and efficiently. Much of the inadequacies with water and wastewater assets ...
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Municipal water demand and efficiency analysis: Case studies in Turkey
The growing demand for municipal water due to population increase and urbanization impels water managers to reconsider the existing traditional supply-sided management approach. Strengthening of water demand management (WDM) policies by improving water use efficiency has been adopted as a key target in arid regions, in particular. Indeed, increasing the added value per m3 of water used is gaining ...
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Renewal prioritization of multi-regional water supply pipelines through water supply risk assessment
In the Republic of Korea, multi-regional water supply pipelines were intensively laid during the rapid economic growth period; however, these pipelines are now aging. The cost of renewal of the aged pipelines would be enormous. Therefore, limited resources need to be distributed effectively in accordance with the priority of renewal. In this study, the risks involved in the multi-regional ...
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