Water Asset Management International

Volume 2 Issue 1
March 2006

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Contents

NEWS, including:

Decision expected on European support for infrastructure

The European parliament is due to vote soon on budget proposals for the European Union covering the seven years from next January. The budget will divert large grants financing for water and other infrastructure to the EU's 10 newest member states within the Cohesion Fund, which will also be reformed.

UK water firm ordered to refund £42M to customers

Economic regulator Ofwat has published its interim report into allegations about false reporting of information by UK water utility Severn Trent Water. The utility has been ordered to repay £42M, gained by setting price limits higher than necessary due to misleading regulatory data it provided.

PAPERS

Asset management around the world: the expertise of Australia/New Zealand, the UK and the US

Tony Urquhart .......... 3—6

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The AMPLE Tool: Asset Management Program Learning Environment

Steve Allbee, Roger Byrne, Duncan Rose, Andrew Sneesby, Doug Stewart .......... 7—10

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Benchmarking civil maintenance performances and practices in the urban water industry: key perspectives and emerging challenges

Paul Harris, Tony Saker, Don Vincent .......... 11—15

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HawkEye pollution prevention system

Simon Balding .......... 16—18

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Asset management: complex problems require sophisticated analytical approaches

Dr Annie Vanrenterghem-Raven .......... 19—22

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AM UPDATE, including:

Managing Infrastructure Assets, 19-20 June 2006, Paris, France.

1st World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), 11-14 July 2006, Queensland, Australia.