Observatory on public water and sanitation services Overview of services and of their performance February 2012 x CONTEXT Initiated in 2009, the observatory on water and sanitation services offers national online access (www.services.eaufrance.fr) to public data on the organisation, management and performance of services. These elements are used to evaluate the economic, technical, social and environmental quality of services on an objective, recognised basis, shared by all stakeholders in the water sector. In the long term, the observatory will thus go beyond simple reasoning in terms of the price of water and cover all the technical and financial issues related to services. Using the observatory's data, this initial overview offers markers on the organisation, quality and price of water services and collective sanitation. It also clarifies the sustainable assets management issues facing services. x AUTHOR(S) AND CONTRIBUTOR(S) Maria Salvetti, economist, ONEMA,
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[email protected] Reproduction rights: Public Keywords: Public water and sanitation services, performance Geographic cover: France Geographic level: National Level of interpretation: Professional Language: French Circulated by: Office national de l’eau et des milieux aquatiques (Onema – French National Agency for Water and Aquatic Environments) x ABSTRACT Key figures of the first overview of services and their performance More than 31,000 water and collective sanitation services: 14,217 drinking water and 17,228 collective sanitation services; 4,500 intermunicipal groups in charge of water and/or sanitation services. Average price of water and of collective sanitation: €3.62 incl. VAT/m3 Sum of solidarity actions: €0.0045/m3 for water services and €0.0038/m3 for collective sanitation services.