Water Asset Management International

Volume 1 Issue 4
December 2005

Issue 4

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Contents

NEWS, including:

Support for Eastern Europe and Central Asia diverted as services decline

Development assistance to the countries of eastern Europe, the Caucasus and central Asia (EECCA) is being diverted to other regions of the world at a time when assets are deteriorating and services are declining as a consequence, a conference on financing in the region has heard.

Asset alternative to protect Thames

Ofwat, the economic regulator for the water companies of England and Wales, has published an independent report by consultant Jacobs Babtie that recommends partial solutions to the problem of intermittent storm discharges to the river Thames tideway rather than construction of the proposed £1.7 billion, 35km Thames Tideway interceptor sewer.

VIEWPOINT

Interview with Daryl Mather, asset management consultant and author of a new book, on the broader context of developments in strategic asset management in the water sector.

PAPERS

5

Asset management worldwide: the lessons learned

Roger Byrne

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Have asset management models compromised effective asset maintenance?

Mike Levery

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Water main rehabilitation prioritisation: getting the data together for OWASA

Kilmeny J Stephens

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COST-S: a new methodology and tools for sewerage asset management based on whole life costs

Dragan A Savic, Slobodan Djordjevic, Gianluca Dorini, Will Shepherd, Adrian Cashman, Adrian J Saul

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Integrating sustainability into asset management programmes: life cycle cost analyses using whole system design and the ecological footprint

Priscilla Bloomfield, Steve Mc Donald

AM UPDATE, including:

Network management choices: a review of presentations at the Efficient Use and Management of Urban Water Supply conference, held in Chile earlier this year.

The Adam Smith Institute's 11th annual conference: The Future of Utilities, 27-28 March 2006, London, UK.