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Focusing on performance Global water summit 2011 This book captures the messages for the international water community from the Global Water Summit held in Berlin in April 2011. We publish it so that the thinking from the cutting edge of the water business can be preserved and reach a wider audience than those people lucky enough to attend the actual event. We have one objective in staging the annual summit: to help the world of water work better. DISTINCTION HIGHLY COMMENDED HIGHLY Global Water Awards Global Water Awards COMMENDED 2011 2011 Global Water Awards 2009 Book of hours.indd 26 14/04/2009 15:55:45 Presented by Global Water Intelligence and the International Desalination Association Conference book sponsored by Myron L. Company Global Water Summit 2011 Focusing on performance Focusing on performance The global water challenge as seen from space Global warming is bringing both devastating Keynote address by Prof James Famiglietti floods and searing droughts in its wake. It puts the performance of water utilities on the line as never before. Foreword Using satellite data from NASA, Professor Famiglietti has built up the most detailed picture to date of the evolving pattern of global water availability. This book captures the messages for the text of his speech on the Global Water Summit “Politics of performance” we address the policy and management. It is also about international water community from the website:. The URL is: question of whether politicians are a help or technology. We look at what the future holds Jay Famiglietti, pp 12-21 Global Water Summit held in Berlin in April www.watermeetsmoney.com/costrecovery. a hindrance in improving the performance of for renewable water resources in the section 2011. We publish it so that the thinking from P.lease pass the link on. utilities. entitled “Desalination and water reuse in Water and the challenge the cutting edge of the water business can be 2030”, while the current situation is reviewed of Asia’s economic rise Of course there is more to read in this book You can read about how seven utilities from If economic growth in Asia continues at current preserved and reach a wider audience than in “Desalination and water reuse in 2011”. levels, it will put impossible strains on the world’s resources – especially its water resources. than Dr Muhairwe’s speech. While failure of around the world dramatically improved Chandran Nair explains those people lucky enough to attend the actual In the “Water technology idol” section five how constraints on resource financing is the most significant immediate the way they operate in the “Performance consumption will event. new water technologies go head to head to shape the new economy, and the central role of the cause of the global water crisis, in the longer challenge” section on pages 44-69. In the water industry in Asia’s see which one the judges think offers the best future growth. We have one objective in staging the annual term global warming could present a larger section entitled “Africa’s moment in water” Keynote address by Chandran Nair prospect for the future. [ ] summit: to help the world of water work challenge. On pages 12-21 you can read we hear the experiences of four utilities from better, and if there is one thing in this book Professor Jay Famiglietti’s explanation of Africa, and how they have been able to improve Smart water networks have become one of Chandran Nair, pp 22-29 that you should read to help that happen how this process is affecting the world’s standards and extend coverage despite the hottest new concepts in the water industry. it is Dr William Muhairwe’s argument in freshwater systems. It is the most clear and the enormous challenges they face. “New On pages 74-77 Djeevan Schiferli looks at how Water & the public sector favour of cost recovery tariffs outlined on credible explanation of the press that I have initiatives in private sector participation” these might change the world. financial crisis pages 298-299. Dr Muhairwe is the Managing seen to date. If you are involved in water, you looks at how the private sector is evolving in The biggest challenge facing the global water sector today is access to finance. In many countries the old model, based Frank Rogalla, who heads aqualia’s research and on central government finance, has been broken by the global financial crisis. Director of the Ugandan National Water and have to read it. Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Water utilities must development division raises some interesting do more with less, and find new ways of Sewerage Corporation. I have long believed raising money. Michel Camdessus offers his Chandran Nair, founder of the Global Institute But performance is not just an issue for the questions about the future of wastewater insight into what the public sector financial that promoting the value of water is central to crisis means for the water industry. Keynote address by Michel Camdessus for Tomorrow, tackles another important municipal water sector. Increasingly industrial treatment on pages 288-289. For example did [ ] solving the global water crisis. It is only if people global megatrend – the rise of Asia. What water users are beginning to focus on their you know that it requires as much energy to are prepared to pay for water, that we will be Christopher Gasson does it mean for the world if China and India water use. Businesses are concerned about create nitrates for fertiliser, as it takes to remove Michel Camdessus, pp 30-35 able to invest in the infrastructure we need Publisher, Global Water Intelligence start consuming resources like the West? Read the potential impact of water risk on their nitrates from wastewater? Do we have to to meet the challenges of the future, and it is Delivering performance amidst austerity how water represents both a threat and an operations, and they want to ensure that their change the paradigm if we are going to address only if price is allowed to moderate demand After the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the city state of Berlin was opportunity in this context. water use does not undermine the corporate the problem of agricultural run-off? Tony Wray, revolution pitched into a financial crisis The smart network from which it is still recovering. that we can minimise wastage. Dr Muhairwe Over the same period of time it has managed to build a world class social responsibility strategy. The trouble is that the CEO of Severn Trent Plc is similarly wary Utilities around the world are transforming their water utility. makes these points, and many more far more Michel Camdessus, a former Managing performance thanks to smart network technology. What can we By overlaying an information grid over the learn from the no one has yet developed a measure of water of the diffuse pollution challenge (see p. 291). production and distribution network, energy utilities experience of eloquently than I could, and he does so from a are seeing dramatic improvements in efficiency. Berlinwasser Group Director of the International Monetary Fund about delivering performance in industry which businesses Tony Wray’s overview of “Water, money and Is this the future for performance water utilities too? when money position of bitter experience. and one of the most enlightened voices in is tight? Keynote address by Jörg Simon can use to say how well they are doing. This performance” can be read on pages 70-73. [] the debate about how the Millennium Keynote address by His speech makes all those who argue that issue is addressed in the section entitled []Djeevan Schiferli Development Goals for Water and For those interested in where the water industry public water supply must be subsidised seem “Water performance in industry - are we Jörg Simon, pp 36-43 Sanitation should be financed, gives a is going, I give my round up of the top ten like out of touch do-gooders whose charitable asking the right questions?”. We then move magisterial tour d’horizons of the issue on business propositions in the global water Djeevan Schiferli, pp 74-77 feelings are in fact condemning a generation on to look in more detail at the issues raised The water pages 30-35. business on pages 278-287. performance challenge Successful initiatives of Africans to cholera, dysentery and lives of by performance in the food and beverage A scalable for-profit from around the world approach to serving What are the best utilities doing to improve their drudgery fetching and carrying water from Of course the theme of the event is “focusing industry (see pp. 196-209) and the oil and gas The Global Water Summit also plays host performance? We shortlisted seven utilities that the poor have significantly raised their performance levels. One of the big obstacles to bringing water services Each initiative is presented in the quick-fire distant and unprotected sources. Disseminating on performance”. Jörg Simon, the Executive industry (see pp. 224-241). to the Global Water Awards. This annual to low income communities is the lack of a viable 8 minute Pecha Kucha format before the audience business model. WaterHealth International has votes for the 2011 Water Performance Initiative challenged the assumption that you can’t make a of the Year. this kind of thinking is how we make a Director of Berlinwasser addresses this issue event recognises the best of the best in the business out of selling safe water to the poor. Speakers include WHI has raised serious Jean-Marc Jahn, CEO, SEAAL, Algiers Of course performance is not just about targets, Taqsem Khan, Managing Director, Dhaka WASA, Bangladesh money from venture capitalists Klaus Neder, Special Projects Adviser, CAESB, Brasilia to scale up its activities Lonnie Frost, Public Works Director, Gilbert, Arizona Chaired by Dan McCarthy difference in the world.