Statistics and Economics
The scope of this Group is to provide a forum to debate how utilities are financed, how their various water tariff structures are, which measurement of performance they use, how they analyse their micro economics, how they manage efficiency, etc. Through periodical worldwide surveys the Group provides water industry statistics on countries water facts updating abstraction, consumption and water charging figures.
Workshops and seminars are organised annually and papers are written in the scope of sharing information and experiences focusing both fundamental and practical issues to be considered by an economic and responsible behaviour of water utilities. Through its activities the Group is focused on satisfying the needs of the Group’s membership while at the same time positively cooperating with other IWA Specialist Groups so helping to deliver relevant aspects of the Association's Strategic Plan..
Call for active members
Because of the limited number of active members we are always looking for people who are interested in our work and who want to participate actively in our work.
So if you are willing to work together with us, if you want to learn from your peers and if you want to have a lot of fun, please let us know.
For more information please contact Group Chair Ed Smeets by mobile phone or e-mail.
Working Groups
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Working Group on Statistics
Since the early 1990s the WG has carried out International Surveys to collect data on water production, water use and water charges and also on water regulation. The information is published as a leaflet at the biennial IWA World Water Congress. The last leaflet was published at the IWA World Water Congress in Montreal, September 2010, and a refreshed one is to be expected at the next World Water Congress in Busan, September 2012, providing the most relevant and updated International Water Data for discussion.
Chair: Jan Hammenecker (Belgium)
Core Members: Matthias Freiburghaus (Switzerland); Renato Parena (Italy); Masao Shibuya (Japan); Thomas Herkner (Germany); Phryne Potamou (Cyprus); Reinhard Perfler (Austria), Balasz Boda (Hungary), Maria Molinos (Spain), Jean-François Verges (France), Peter Geudens (Netherlands).
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Working Group on Tariffs and Finance
The WG takes care of many publications in WUMI such as Water Regulation regimes, which came from a specific international survey, and water pricing: from theory to practice. The aim of this last contribution is to illustrate and explain, through case studies, why approaches designed by economists and approaches implemented by decision-makers in the field are sometimes so divergent. Also this WG is responsible for organizing workshops during IWA conferences on economical issues like funding, pricing, tariffs, etc.
Chair: Teodor Popa (Romania)
Core Members: Carles Sanclemente (Spain), Francesc Hernandez (Spain); Renato Parena (Italy); Pierre-Alain Mahé (France); Phryne Potamou (Cyprus), Anita Ferreira (Portugal), Carlos Pereira (Portugal), Peter Geudens (Netherlands), Maria Molinos (Spain), Aina Helgesen (Norway), Balasz Boda (Hungary)
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Working Group on International Conferences
The main activity of the WG over the past years was organizing International Conferences on Water Economics, Statistics, and Finance, in 2005 and 2009 both in Greece. There will be a series of these conferences every 4 years. More regional oriented conferences or workshops will be organized in the years in between depending on the needs of regions or countries.
Chair: Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis (Greece)
Core Members: Carles Sanclemente (Spain); Ed Smeets (Netherlands); Heimo Theuretzbacher-Fritz (Austria); Francesc Hernandez (Spain), Maria Molinos (Spain)
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Working Group on Water Economics
The main objective of this WG is to analyze and integrate economic aspects in the water and waste water management and decison-making process of utilities to raise efficiency and environmental benefits. The WG therefore will create possibilities to discuss these topics like workshops connected to the SG meeting, papers, presentations, interactive website, etc.
Chair: Francesc Hernandez (Spain)
Core Members: Konstantinos Tsagarakis (Greece), Ed Smeets (Netherlands); Maria Molinos (Spain), Reinhard Perfler (Austria), Jean-François Verges (France), Aina Helgesen (Norway), Thomas Herkner (Germany), Carlos Pereira (Portugal).
