Water Asset Management International

Volume 3 Issue 1 - Special Issue: Asset Management in the UK
March 2007

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Contents

NEWS, including:

Contract for Northern Irish asset management

Northern Ireland Water, the new government company that replaced the Northern Ireland Water Service at the beginning of April, has announced that a consortium led by environmental engineering consultants MWH has won a contract to implement an asset management model to deliver the Northern Ireland Asset Management Plan 3 (NIAMP 3).

Committee attacks Ofwat as ‘weak’ in dealing with water companies

The UK House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has fiercely criticised the economic regulator, Ofwat, calling it ‘weak’ for not using sanctions against companies that underperform, instancing the decision not to impose a fine on Thames Water for persistently failing to meet leakage targets.

PAPERS

Improving asset management planning in the England and Wales water industry: a regulator's perspective

George Day .......... 5—7

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Change and asset management in Thames Water: building the (im)perfect beast

Adrian Rees, Steve R Roberts, Mark D Bottomley, and David M Upton .......... 8—11

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The need for world-class asset management in the next age of the UK water industry

Clive Deadman .......... 12—14

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Asset management in Scottish Water

Gareth Lifton .......... 15—18

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Integrating service impacts into wastewater asset management

Mike Jones .......... 19—22

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An asset management planning assessment process for the UK water industry

Andrew IJ Heather, Paul R Chadwick, William R Hume-Smith and Malvika Surendra .......... 23—26

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AM UPDATES, including:

Design, Operation and Economics of Large Wastewater Treatment Plants, 9-13 September 2007, Vienna, Austria

2nd Leading-Edge Conference & Exhibition on Strategic Asset Management, 17-19 October 2007, Lisbon, Portugal