scholarly journals Innovation results of IAM planning in urban water services

2016 ◽  
Vol 74 (7) ◽  
pp. 1518-1526 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Cardoso ◽  
A. Poças ◽  
M. S. Silva ◽  
R. Ribeiro ◽  
M. C. Almeida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Asset Management ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Water Utilities ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Services ◽  
Sustainable Infrastructure ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Software Company ◽  
Urban Water Services ◽  
Levels Of Service

The requirement to provide urban water services continuously while infrastructures are ageing, imposes the need for increasingly sustainable infrastructure asset management (IAM). To achieve and maintain adequate levels of service, the AWARE-P IAM methodology has been applied in collaborative projects launched by the National Civil Engineering Laboratory, in partnership with IST (Technical University of Lisbon), Addition (software company) and several water utilities. The objective of these projects is to support urban water utilities in the development, implementation and maintenance of IAM plans. To guarantee the success of IAM planning, following the AWARE-P IAM methodology, utilities are required to: consider that the infrastructure has system behaviour and lifespan is indefinite and guarantee the full-alignment of IAM planning with organisation objectives. By analysing the strategic and tactical plans of participating utilities, the proposed methodology principles are discussed and supported. The main innovation results from the implementation of IAM planning are also presented and discussed, including the challenges of setting up an IAM process, together with the major benefits and drawbacks that come up when developing IAM plans. The results were demonstrated by the effective implementation of 16 strategic and 14 tactical IAM plans by the participating utilities.

scholarly journals Urban water infrastructure asset management – a structured approach in four water utilities

2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (12) ◽  
pp. 2702-2711 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Cardoso ◽  
M. Santos Silva ◽  
S. T. Coelho ◽  
M. C. Almeida ◽  
D. I. C. Covas
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Water Utilities ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Wastewater Systems ◽  
Wastewater Infrastructure ◽  
Risk Cost ◽  
Levels Of Service ◽  
Structured Approach ◽  
Infrastructure Asset Management

Water services are a strategic sector of large social and economic relevance. It is therefore essential that they are managed rationally and efficiently. Advanced water supply and wastewater infrastructure asset management (IAM) is key in achieving adequate levels of service in the future, particularly with regard to reliable and high quality drinking water supply, prevention of urban flooding, efficient use of natural resources and prevention of pollution. This paper presents a methodology for supporting the development of urban water IAM, developed during the AWARE-P project as well as an appraisal of its implementation in four water utilities. Both water supply and wastewater systems were considered. Due to the different contexts and features of the utilities, the main concerns vary from case to case; some problems essentially are related to performance, others to risk. Cost is a common deciding factor. The paper describes the procedure applied, focusing on the diversity of drivers, constraints, benefits and outcomes. It also points out the main challenges and the results obtained through the implementation of a structured procedure for supporting urban water IAM.

scholarly journals Legal Aspects of Urban Water and Sanitation Regulatory Services: An Analysis of How the Spanish Experience Positively Would Contribute to the Brazilian New Regulation

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1023
Author(s):  
Asensio Navarro Ortega ◽  
Rafael Burlani Neves
Keyword(s):  
Service Management ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Natural Monopoly ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Services ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Urban Water Services

This paper focuses on the legal and institutional framework of urban water services in Spain, emphasizing water sanitation by using proposals that would positively contribute to wastewater management in Brazil. The recent Brazilian Federal Law No. 14,026/20 aims to encourage investment in water sanitation, promoting public-private collaboration formulas so that service management is viable even in economically less-favored regions. In Spain, sanitation policies are aimed at fulfilling the set of obligations and objectives imposed by European Union Directives within the environmental policies of the Union. From an economic point of view, supply and sanitation water services are classified at European legal framework as “services of general economic interest” (SGEI), not subject to harmonized regulation and open to a natural monopoly provision regime, which they admit various types of management formulas, public and private, based on the ownership and public intervention of the service, both at national and European level. We believe that the Spanish experience in this field, beyond its singularities, can serve as a useful reference for Brazilian’s urban wastewater new regulation for several reasons: (1) Because of the decentralized political scheme that both countries share and the need to articulate an adequate system of competencies in consequence; (2) Because of the international experience that Spanish companies have at the sector’s technological forefront, they are very competitive; (3) Due to the adequate functioning of the Spanish legal and organizational framework since, despite its shortcomings, as we later will comment, it has managed to develop successful financing formulas and management models that, in general terms, have allowed to ensure with reasonable efficiency, continuity, stability and sustainability in the provision of urban water services.

scholarly journals Understanding the governance of urban water services from an institutional logics perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 101159
Author(s):  
Manuel Franco-Torres ◽  
Ragnhild Kvålshaugen ◽  
Rita M. Ugarelli
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Services ◽  
Urban Water Services

The ‘social choice’ of privatising urban water services: A case study of Madrid in Spain

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 616-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Ruiz-Villaverde ◽  
Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo ◽  
Francisco González-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Social Choice ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Water Services

scholarly journals Metabolism-modelling approaches to long-term sustainability assessment of urban water services

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Venkatesh ◽  
Helge Brattebø ◽  
Sveinung Sægrov ◽  
Kourosh Behzadian ◽  
Zoran Kapelan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Services ◽  
Urban Water Services ◽  
Modelling Approaches
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