Water Asset Management International

Volume 2 Issue 3
September 2006

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Contents

NEWS, including:

UN report underlines global water spending needs

The UNDP's 2006 Human Development report, Beyond scarcity: power, poverty and the global water crisis, warns that concerted international action is needed to end this 'silent emergency'.

Ofwat warns English and Welsh utilities against complacency

Ofwat chairman Philip Fletcher has warned the water industry in England and Wales and its investors not to assume that the regulator would reach similar conclusions either on the cost of capital or financial indicators at the next price review in 2009.

PAPERS

Condition assessment: should you risk it?

V Kenneth Harlow and Doug Stewart .......... 4—8

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Taking a global quality framework approach to driving infrastructure asset management improvements: A discussion paper designed to promote debate and progress of national and global collaboration

Blake Anderson, Steve Allbee, Roger Byrne, Duncan Rose, Andrew Sneesby and Doug Stewart .......... 9—12

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Asset management and its alignment with effective utility management

David C Sklar .......... 13—15

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Strategic management of water in urban areas. The Canadian national water and wastewater benchmarking initiative: using process to drive improvement

David Main, Leslie Ng and Andy North .......... 16—22

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AM UPDATE, including:

Asset management: online training tools and resources

Asset Management Excellence Exchange, 05-06 March 2007, Boston, USA.