Chile experience-Chilean urban water services – 25 years of experience improving access to and quality of water services presented by Mª Angélica Alegría Calvo
Chilean urban water services – 25 years of experience improving access to and quality of water services presented by Mª Angélica Alegría Calvo , Chilean Directorate of Water at
GWP Consulting Partners meeting 2010
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Session Finance 4b - Faraj El-awar and Christian Schlosser un-habitat (pptmi...IRC
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Scientific water resources allocation is key to maintaining a healthy Yellow River. GWP China plans to:
1) Influence the rational water resources allocation mechanism and coordinate water rights trading.
2) Set up platforms for dialogue and capacity building between stakeholders and invite research institutions to establish assessment systems.
3) Facilitate agreement on water allocation quotas between the 9 provinces in the Yellow River basin.
The ultimate goal is to contribute to the health of the Yellow River through scientifically set water allocation quotas.
The document discusses the need for public-private partnerships (PPPs) in sanitation in India. It notes that there are large gaps in demand and supply of sanitation infrastructure and services. Existing government policies and programs have faced challenges in implementation including poor awareness, institutional issues, and lack of integrated city-wide approaches. PPPs can help address these issues by de-politicizing user charges, allocating risks smartly, managing contingent liabilities, and building institutional capacities. Successful PPPs require commercial viability, political will to privatize, defining clear roles for public and private stakeholders, and end-user participation. Case studies of PPPs in Senegal, Argentina, and Morocco show some successes in
Challenges & Lessons from water sector reforms and devolutionWaterCap
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The document summarizes a presentation on challenges and lessons from water sector reforms and devolution in Kenya. It discusses achievements of the reforms in improving water access, as well as ongoing challenges around governance, non-compliance, and balancing water demands. Key lessons are the need for uniform service standards, protecting revenue to invest in water infrastructure, and inter-county collaboration on shared water resources. Questions from attendees focused on issues like water pollution, water quality standards, realizing the right to water, and resolving disputes between county governments and water boards over shared resources.
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The document discusses activities by the Global Water Operators Alliance (GWOPA) to improve financial management of water operators. GWOPA is establishing a financing and advisory facility to provide technical assistance, help mobilize funding, and improve financial, operational, and environmental efficiency of water utilities. Initial findings show this approach can reduce costs, increase water access, and allow utilities to access commercial financing.
Scientific water resources allocation is key to maintaining a healthy Yellow River. GWP China plans to:
1) Influence the rational water resources allocation mechanism and coordinate water rights trading.
2) Set up platforms for dialogue and capacity building between stakeholders and invite research institutions to establish assessment systems.
3) Facilitate agreement on water allocation quotas between the 9 provinces in the Yellow River basin.
The ultimate goal is to contribute to the health of the Yellow River through scientifically set water allocation quotas.
The document discusses the need for public-private partnerships (PPPs) in sanitation in India. It notes that there are large gaps in demand and supply of sanitation infrastructure and services. Existing government policies and programs have faced challenges in implementation including poor awareness, institutional issues, and lack of integrated city-wide approaches. PPPs can help address these issues by de-politicizing user charges, allocating risks smartly, managing contingent liabilities, and building institutional capacities. Successful PPPs require commercial viability, political will to privatize, defining clear roles for public and private stakeholders, and end-user participation. Case studies of PPPs in Senegal, Argentina, and Morocco show some successes in
Challenges & Lessons from water sector reforms and devolutionWaterCap
The document summarizes key points from a presentation given by Eng. Peter Njaggah of the Water Services Regulatory Board at the 2nd Water Dialogue Forum on November 5th, 2013 at the Louis Leakey Auditorium of the National Museum of Kenya. The presentation discussed: [1] the history and challenges of water service provision in Kenya, [2] achievements of water sector reforms introduced in 2002, [3] ongoing challenges around governance, access, and capacity, and [4] lessons for ensuring sustainable water services in the context of devolution under the 2010 Constitution.
The document summarizes a presentation on challenges and lessons from water sector reforms and devolution in Kenya. It discusses achievements of the reforms in improving water access, as well as ongoing challenges around governance, non-compliance, and balancing water demands. Key lessons are the need for uniform service standards, protecting revenue to invest in water infrastructure, and inter-county collaboration on shared water resources. Questions from attendees focused on issues like water pollution, water quality standards, realizing the right to water, and resolving disputes between county governments and water boards over shared resources.
The document summarizes a public-private partnership model for water and sanitation services in Sechura, Peru. The specialized operator PROGESTION took over management and significantly improved access to potable water and sanitation. Key achievements included expanding coverage, implementing innovative technologies, increasing bill payment, and professionalizing operations. Factors for success included community support, a stable income source, and a supportive legal framework. Remaining challenges center around sustaining the model through political changes and delays in infrastructure investments.
The Small Town Pilot Project in Peru aims to improve water and sanitation services in small towns through new management models that involve partnerships between municipalities, communities, and local operators; it tests models where communities select an operator, set service quality and fees, and monitor performance through a neighborhood committee.
Towards The Result Based Utility Sector In ArmeniaCRRC-Armenia
This document summarizes a study on performance-based management in Armenia's water supply sector. It outlines reforms to the sector including privatization deals. It analyzes key performance indicators used by water supply companies before and after private sector involvement. Results included improved access, duration and quality of water services as well as higher bill collection rates. However, some challenges remained regarding public access to information and accountability. The study recommends expanding performance metrics and increasing transparency and responsiveness to improve customer satisfaction.
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This document discusses strategies for strengthening accountability in water and natural resource projects. It provides examples from South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia of regulator-led actions to promote citizen participation and oversight of service providers. Key challenges discussed include the need for a paradigm shift towards partnerships between citizens, service providers, and governments to improve service delivery. Questions are also raised around ensuring citizen ownership of accountability mechanisms and selecting representative citizen groups.
Presentation Public Private Partnership (PPP) Khalid Rasulli
This document discusses public-private partnerships (PPPs) in India's urban water sector. It defines PPPs and outlines the types used, including supply contracts, turnkey projects, leases, concessions, and others. Case studies from Senegal and Manila are provided that show how PPPs improved access to water for more people at lower costs. For PPPs to succeed in India's water sector, the document recommends establishing long-term sector trends, following accepted principles, streamlining bureaucracy, developing regulatory frameworks, and reforming tariff structures.
Joint workshop on Enhancing efficiency and sustainability of Water Supply and...OECD Environment
Joint workshop on Enhancing efficiency and sustainability of Water Supply and Sanitation presentation - Osmo Seppälä, Economics of infrastructure planning. How to address a mismatch between high investment needs and technical and financial capacity of small municipalities?, FIWA
Sustainable financing in Africa: What do the Country Status Overviews tell us?International WaterCentre
1) Low income stable countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have made the most progress increasing access to water supply and sanitation between 1990 and 2008.
2) Connecting water sector planning and budgets to strengthened core government systems, like those used for national planning, budgeting, and civil service management, allows countries to expand access more effectively.
3) Ethiopia demonstrated strong service delivery pathways for both rural water and sanitation by linking sector plans and staff to decentralized local government financing and health sector promotion efforts.
1) Low income stable countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have made the most progress increasing access to water supply and sanitation between 1990 and 2008.
2) Connecting water sector planning and budgets to strengthened core government systems, like those seen in countries with Poverty Reduction Strategy Processes, positions countries to deliver services at scale.
3) Ethiopia has shown progress in rural water supply through national planning processes, strengthened local government budgets, and sector systems connected to core government systems and implemented countrywide.
Nepal has significant hydropower potential due to its geography and climate, but has developed less than 1.5% of estimated 83,000 MW potential. Key challenges include increasing private investment, rural electrification, and strengthening national capabilities. National policies aim to develop hydropower at low cost to meet domestic demand, encourage private and foreign investment, and extend electricity access across the country in an environmentally sustainable way. Targets are set to provide tangible water benefits to communities in the short, medium, and long term through integrated management of water resources.
The document summarizes water resource policy issues and management in Nigeria. It outlines Nigeria's large water resource potential but also significant challenges related to climate change impacts, population growth, and inefficient management. Reforms aim to improve access to water and sanitation, expand irrigation, and boost hydropower. Substantial investment is needed to achieve targets by 2015 and longer term goals to 2025, with funding expected from public, private, multilateral, and internally generated sources. The academies are urged to provide best practice recommendations and review policies based on evidence.
A proper enabling environment is essential to both ensure the rights and assets of all stakeholders (individuals as well as public and private sector organizations and companies), and also to protect public assets such as intrinsic environmental values. In order to achieve efficient, equitable and sustainable water management within the IWRM approach, a major institutional change will be needed.
Both top-down and bottom-up participation of all stakeholders will have to be promoted – from the level of the nation down to the level of a village or a municipality or from the level of a catchment or watershed up to the level of a river basin.
The principle of subsidiary, which drives down action to the lowest appropriate level, will need to be observed.
The enabling environment is basically national, provincial or local policies and the legislation that constitutes the “rules of the game” and enable all stakeholders to play their respective roles in the development and management of water resources; and the fona and mechanisms, including information and capacity building, created to establish these “rules of the game” and to facilitate and exercise stakeholder participation
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The second High Level Meeting of the Sanitation and Water for All partnership was held in 2012 in Washington D.C. The Government of Ghana made several commitments at this meeting to improve access to water and sanitation, known as the Ghana Compact. Key commitments included spending $400 million annually from 2011-2015, improving access to sanitation for 10 million Ghanaians, and establishing accountability mechanisms like monitoring and evaluation.
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This document summarizes Tanzania's second annual report on equity in water and sanitation. It finds that while budgets for urban and rural water supply are equitable, access remains unequal. Rural residents are less satisfied with water services and schools lack adequate sanitation. Over half of new rural water projects target relatively well-served communities. Poorer households have less access to piped water and pay a greater portion of their income for water. The report recommends prioritizing underserved areas, increasing transparency, supporting equitable local government planning, and ensuring all voices are represented in water resource management.
The document discusses integrated risk management as the first priority for municipal water management. It notes that while municipal water management involves managing many risks, these risks are typically not addressed within a coordinated structure. This can reduce opportunities to most effectively mitigate and manage risks. The document advocates for more strategic approaches to risk management that consider both operational and strategic risks and involve stakeholders beyond local water utilities. It provides an example of how the City of Calgary is working to adopt a more integrated enterprise risk management framework to create value from risk.
This document outlines Bangladesh's National Policy for Safe Water Supply and Sanitation from 1998. It discusses the government's goal of ensuring all people have access to affordable and safe water and sanitation. The policy covers rural and urban water supply and sanitation issues separately. In rural areas, the policy focuses on community involvement in planning, cost-sharing, and maintenance of water supply facilities. It also promotes women's participation and a range of appropriate technology options.
General objective: Implement a comprehensive and multisector model (Ministry of Environment and Water, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Cooperation Agencies and CAF) for effective promotion on water, hygiene, nutrition and child development practices) to reducing chronic malnutrition prevalence in children under the age of five.
Executive Summary
The water privatization initiative was motivated from significant needs to handle water body services in a more efficient way. The privatization of the public good was considered from many stakeholder perspectives. The Government considered different pros and cons and implemented water privatization. This report discusses the background in which the water privatization initiative was implemented. The report presents the positive and negative elements that have been reported with water privatization. Report makes use of a secondary data collection method, and uses qualitative data primarily. The objective of the report is to present a collection of data on the subject which can be used to assess the success of water privatization. The report however accepts that the water privatization success or failure cannot be captured merely through discussions with secondary data, and more internal analysis of the scenario would be required. There are some serious concerns for the future with respect to water privatization and the report presents these concerns as the areas to be focused on by the Government.
WaterAid in Mali's 2010-2015 Country Strategy aims to support over 415,000 vulnerable people in 23 local governments to gain access to safe water and adequate sanitation. The strategy focuses on new approaches like Community Led Total Sanitation, equity and inclusion, local governance, and water resource management. It also aims to strengthen sector capacity, promote sector policies, and integrate water and sanitation into other sectors like health and education. WaterAid will work with local partners and governments to implement projects targeting the most marginalized communities and track progress through strengthened monitoring and evaluation.
Benefits of Transboundary Cooperation in Neman and Pregolya River BasinsGlobal Water Partnership
The document summarizes a project on transboundary cooperation in the Neman and Pregolya River Basins between Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, and Kaliningrad Oblast. The project aimed to compile GIS maps of the shared river basins and strengthen professional links between water managers. Experts from the countries collaborated to create GIS databases and maps showing hydrology, pollution sources, and water quality. The outputs benefited river management planning and identified data gaps. Future benefits of continued cooperation could include improved health, ecology, tourism, and regional water management in the Baltic Sea region.
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This document discusses opportunities to scale up investments for water security and climate resilience in Africa. It describes how the Water Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP) is supporting regional development and transboundary cooperation across several river basins in Africa. WACDEP is also supporting national processes like integrating water issues into national climate strategies. The document outlines some of WACDEP's projects that are building community resilience and enhancing climate resilience. It discusses opportunities to scale up investments in Africa through investment planning processes and facilities. Lastly, it discusses lessons learned on scaling up and proposes establishing think tanks to support better project development and exploring innovative financing mechanisms.
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This document summarizes the results of a study on whether current land and water governance systems in sub-Saharan Africa are suitable for promoting sustainable and equitable large-scale agricultural investments. The study analyzed systems in 6 countries and found that in all countries, land and water are governed separately without coordination. Within countries, multiple inconsistent property rights regimes exist. The study also found a lack of clarity and enforcement of water access and use rights for investments. It concludes that coordinated land and water governance systems are needed that recognize all rights, have clear planning, pricing, and dispute resolution, and improve legal and institutional reforms and monitoring.
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This document discusses integrated natural resource management in South Africa. It notes that while South Africa has comprehensive environmental laws and increasing budgets for management, assessments show many ecosystems are threatened. This is due to a lack of holistic planning, failure to consider resource value, poor coordination, and inadequate local capacity. The document proposes using an ecosystem services approach to integrate natural systems, social needs, and economic factors. It presents a case study applying this framework in UThukela District through tools like social simulation, scenario analysis, and economic incentives to match interventions with drivers of environmental change. Key to success are effective stakeholder consultation, institutional coordination, and an appropriate governance structure.
The document discusses agricultural irrigation development in Burkina Faso. It notes that Burkina Faso has developed over 42,973 hectares of irrigated land as of 2013, up from 13,043 hectares in 2000. The irrigation techniques discussed include major irrigation schemes near dams covering over 1,000 hectares each, medium schemes from 20-100 hectares, and small-scale irrigation under 100 hectares using various water sources. Crops grown include rice as well as dry season gardening. The development of irrigated agriculture is aimed to increase food production and farmers' incomes in Burkina Faso.
This document discusses the need for coordinated governance of land and water resources to address food security challenges. As population and demand for food increases, business as usual approaches to managing land and water separately will lead to crossing planetary boundaries for water use and loss of agricultural land. Coordinated governance considers land and water as an integrated system and establishes interrelations in their management at various scales from local to national to regional levels. This helps overcome barriers like sectors working in isolation, improves resource use efficiency, and leads to more coherent policies that secure access to both land and water for improved food production.
Community/farmers-led land and water governance - An experience from NepalGlobal Water Partnership
This document discusses community-led land and water governance experiences in Nepal. It finds that farmer-managed irrigation systems irrigate 70% of agricultural land and produce 40% of Nepal's food. However, private land ownership and control of irrigation systems by government bureaucracies have negatively impacted small farmers and food security. The experience of CSRC shows that by supporting land rights and establishing people's organizations, farmers in Nepal have successfully developed local frameworks to manage land and water resources, diversified production, and increased yields over 5 times through small-scale, community-led irrigation projects.
Bioenergy large scale agriculture investments in africa - food security pers...Global Water Partnership
1. The document discusses large scale investments in agriculture in Africa for food and biofuel crops, and how this can impact food security. It examines the opportunities and risks of growing non-food bioenergy crops as part of land use systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
2. The FAO's Bioenergy and Food Security approach is presented as a way to design sustainable bioenergy policies that contribute to agricultural development and food and energy security. Case studies of the approach in Tanzania, Malawi, and other countries are provided.
3. Key questions addressed include how multi-functional land use systems can promote both food and energy security, and the potential benefits of non-food bioenergy crops for sectors like income
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Chile experience-Chilean urban water services – 25 years of experience improving access to and quality of water services presented by Mª Angélica Alegría Calvo
1. Chilean urban water services – 25 years of experience improving access to and quality of water services Mª Angélica Alegría Calvo Chilean Directorate of Water
2. Chile’s population is mainly urban and urbanization is steadily increasing, which is a major challenge to water services. In 2002 urban population was 86.6% while in rural areas it was 13.4% (Compared to 16.5% in 1992) In the 80’s, the provision of these services was transferred to private hands with some very specific purposes that require a careful description and analysis, in order to understand the reforms and mechanisms in place that allowed the improvement of the provision of water services. From 1860 until 1977, urban water supply & sanitation services were provided by the Government
3. Until the late 70´s , investments in UWSSS were supported by the Central Government budget to develop infrastructure In 1977: coverage for urban drinking water supply was 86% and for urban sanitation it reached 56%. » concept of a general tariff A subsidized price for drinking water was maintained until the end of the 70’s. Everybody paid the same price for WSS regardless of their income and water tariffs covered less than 50 percent of the cost of the service and only 20 percent in some regions where production costs were higher.
4. As a result of flat tariffs and since government resources for investment always had to compete with other government priorities there were sectors that suffered lack of development, By the end of the 70’s there where still a number of institutions involved in UWSSS showing a diversity of goals and objectives, coordination deficiencies, lack of financial and administrative autonomy, etc.
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9. In other words, this legal reform of the sanitation industry considered the necessary investment required for its development and quality improvement, which were to be financed by the industry through charging real prices to cover investments and operational costs, and produce some profit.
10. Also, the Government set the goal to reach 100% of urban drinking water service coverage by the year 2000 & 100% of urban waste water treatment by 2010 , which required fast and considerable investments in the following years, as well as the need for developing more complex technologic and managerial projects for the construction of waste water treatment plants.
11. At the same time the Government made a political decision: Not to allow indebtedness of the State owned sanitary companies. Such decision, and the fact that governmental service providers couldn’t reinvest the total amount of their revenues since part of them had to return to the State, made possible the privatisation option .
12. The 1988 reform included a set of five very important laws: Sanitation Services General Law, established operational rules for companies, service conditions and types of water concessions. Tariffs General Law , established procedures and norms for tariffs setting and a mechanism for self financing. It also gives incentives to incorporate efficiency and reduce crossed subsidies.
13. A Law that authorized the State to develop entrepreneurial activities in drinking water supply and sanitation through the constitution of joint-stock companies in each one the administrative territorial regions of the country . Law of Water Consumption Subsidies , established a direct subsidy to consumption of drinking water and sanitation service for low income family groups or residential clients. Law that created the regulator , established the technical, normative and supervisory framework.
22. Sanitation services in Chile have been developed during more than a century and thanks to the level reached in the 80’s, it was possible to implement changes of the legal framework allowing privatization. It is essential to have a strong regulator as a counterpart to the concession, as well as having the necessary administrative and legal tools to protect the users’ interests. The subsidy is an essential element for the companies to be able to function properly. In Chile the subsidy for consumption satisfactorily covers almost 100 per cent of the needs of the poor population.
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24. In the Chilean case, privatization represented a financial tool for wastewater treatment mainly, but not the solution to get universal access to water supply and sanitation services. The real mechanisms that allowed this universal access, were vision and political will to invest in basic services for the population, and a clear understanding that water is essential for development .
25. Universal access to water has been possible in Chile because an institutional framework was generated, which gave legal, administrative, economic and technical sustainability, with clear rules so that any sector, public, private or mixed could join and develop this industry. The option of privatization was a political decision made among a wide range of possibilities, within them to continue with the water provision service through the State, a mixed solution or private participation.