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Water utility companies provide #services to most of the households in Pacific urban areas while facing the challenge of ensuring #water is accessible to all, including those living in informal settlements and those who find it hard to pay the bills. WATCH this ADB #webinar to discover pro-poor strategies that water utilities employ to ensure water access for those unable to pay as well as encourage and facilitate bills payment. 🟠 https://buff.ly/3IPH82q #SDG6 Pacific Water and Wastewater Association, Maria Tran, Sinéad Lehane, Leo Kre, Dean Taylor, Water PNG Ltd

whether you want to drink, drain or flush water, our infrastructure is ageing and inadequate. The cost of fixing it is mind-blowing. And the price of ignoring it even greater.  the fix is estimated to be around $185 billion (2 years ago) - which is now the responsibility for individually local councils to find. the experts are basically saying, the water infrastructure in this country is stuffed. Call me a sceptic, but i think water, the world's most important resource, needs to be centralised. The coalition's course of action to make each council solely responsible for improvements and capital-raising is not to dissimilar to a strategy of divide and plunder. 'User pays' through local rate raising and council debt laden is like putting the gun in their hand. The coalition's complete abandonment of the 3 waters concept is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. But, when you are on a mission to prove (theoretically) that you can deliver on the promise... I think our biggest issue is we do not have an overall long term strategic plan for the country. Much of what is happening seems to be more 'reactive' rather than 'proactive'.

Has your municipality considered funding through the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Clean Water Fund Program (CWFP)? The CWFP provides low-cost financing to Wisconsin municipalities in the form of reduced-interest rate loans for publicly owned wastewater and storm water projects that protect and improve public health and water quality. The CWFP also includes projects for compliance with a municipality's Wisconsin Pollution Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) permit. Additional points and criteria for regionalization, phosphorus reduction, and energy efficiency projects if considering principal forgiveness. Due to the continued high demand for financial assistance, there are loan limitations that will impact the 2025 CWFP applications. More information can be found at the below links. https://lnkd.in/gYqn5Ye5 https://lnkd.in/gMi2nPfK Have more questions contact me or an R/M expert today. #ruekertmielke #funding #wastewater #storemwater #grants #infrastructureprojects #cleanwaterfundprogram #financialassistance #principalforgiveness

Main benefit of elected local bodies is their closeness to citizens, which allows them to be much more responsive – although with sustained hard work -- to improving local services such as waste, water, sewerage and transportation. But how? In case When they are not generating local resources and developmental fund release authority is with province. #authority #funds #legislation #policy #localresources

#Water is a precious resource – it is essential for life and our economy. Together, we must ensure that the Scottish water industry is equipped to face the challenges of the future so that customers continue to receive high-quality services at a reasonable price. Our methodology for the Strategic Review of Charges (#SRC27) sets the course for @Scottish Water to continue delivering high standards of service for the people of Scotland during 2027-33, while also making further progress toward achieving the long-term water sector vision. Read our methodology: https://lnkd.in/dY_M7imz

In a professional world where colleagues (private sector and LPAs collectively) must address EIA responsibilities, 'sustainable development ', future flooding affect, BNG, Carbon Agenda, consult, and so many other matters regarding community responsibilities and care; where LPAs, PINs, and the courts are under-resourced and exhausted with the good fight, a govt should lead from the front, set the exemplar; but no, now this! To copy an emotional shout ' Cry beloved country'!

“The United Kingdom can attest to the disaster of for-profit water hucksterism. From the early twentieth century until the Thatcher era, water was nationalized for public health reasons. After a disastrous decades-long experiment in water privatization, which by one estimate has cost consumers 2.3 billion pounds a year more than they would have paid under a public water utility—England and Wales became the only countries with fully privatized water and sewage systems—the government is now preparing for a possible takeover of the Thames Water company, which is wracked with debt and scandal and on the brink of collapse. Even worse, Thames Water operated with zero regard for the public interest, despite being entrusted with one of the most important goods on Earth.” #water #waterprofiteering