Water Utility Management International

Volume 1 Issue 3
October 2006

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Contents

NEWS, including:

ADB promises extra water financing

The Asian Development Bank has held a water financing programme conference at its headquarters in Manila to accelerate water investments for the five participating countries: India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines and Vietnam.

£1 billion warning on company spending in England and Wales

The Consumer Council for Water, the water industry consumer watchdog for England and Wales, has urged water companies to 'get back on track' and give customers what they have paid for as it emerged in a report on financial performance and expenditure by the sector's economic regulator, Ofwat, that the companies spent nearly £1 billion less last financial year than they were supposed to.

ANALYSIS

Joint venture launched to tackle water sector corruption

Leading water organistaions have joined forces to back the Water Integrity Network, an initiative to tackle corruption in the water sector.

FEATURES

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Performance product: IWA's revised manual supports indicator implementation

Lis Stedman speaks to Dr Helena Alegre about developments

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Albania's struggles with water sector reforms

By Peter Reina

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Pro-poor regulation: time for utility managers to engage

By David Schaub-Jones

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Improving your water utility the Six Sigma way

By Lis Stedman

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The IWA Statistics and Economics Specialist Group's European water regulation survey: introduction

By Nicolas Renard

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The IWA Statistics and Economics Specialist Group's European water regulation survey: survey results summary

By the Task Force on Tariffs and Finance of the IWA Statistics and Economics Specialist Group

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The reforms at the heart of Veolia's Chinese water service contracts

Keith Hayward speaks with CEO Antoine Frérot