22 April 2018
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18 April 2018
22 March 2018
Celebrate World Water Day!
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21 March 2018
Event "EU Directives in the Water Sector" taking place in Serbia
In cooperation with the Environment Protection Agency of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Serbia, the Association for Water Technology and Sanitary Engineering (UTVSI), on the occasion of the World Water Day, will organise a seminar on the next steps for implementation of the directives within the EU legislation for the water sector, as a part of the project "Further Implementation of the National Environmental Approach Strategy - EAS". The seminar will be held on Thursday, March 22, from 9 AM to 3 PM in Parliamentary Members Club in Belgrade, Tolstojeva 2.
This project of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Serbia, funded by the European Union, has been implemented by the company Eptisa, in the consortium with PM Group and Umweltbundesamt. The seminar will be in Serbian and English (simultaneous translation is provided). Participants will be given an electronic publication of the Agency for the Protection of the Environment "The Status of Surface Waters in Serbia - Guidance for Monitoring Plan Development and Implementation".
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18 April 2018
Call for hosting the fifth EIP Water Conference in 2019
The EIP Water is pleased to announce this call for a host city and conference partners for the fifth EIP Water Conference which is planned to take place in 2019. The conference shall be preceded or followed by side events and site visits. We are now inviting all interested host cities and conference partners to develop and submit their proposals by the deadline of 31 July 2018.
Background and benefits of hosting the EIP Water conference
The host city and conference partners of the EIP Water’s fifth Conference will benefit from the great visibility of the event within the European water sector as well as a number of high-level speakers and international participants. The European Innovation Partnership on Water has taken a central role on the European water innovation landscape, providing a platform for collaboration of all actors in the field of water and innovation. It has succeeded in bringing together a pan-European community of policy-makers, researchers and academia, SME’s and global corporations who collaborate to drive the development of innovative solutions to water challenges and shape water innovation policy in Europe and globally.
The host city and conference partners will be able to showcase their experiences related to water & innovation and, if so agreed with EIP Water, suggest specific topics and challenges of their concern. The previous EIP Water conferences in Brussels (2013), Barcelona (2014), Leeuwarden (2016) and Porto (2017) have demonstrated that the EIP Water conference is a brilliant opportunity for strengthening pan-European and global networking for boosting innovation in the water sector. Since 2013, the event has continued to increase with over 350 participants in Brussels in 2013, more than 400 in Barcelona in 2014, 600 participants in 2016 in Leeuwarden and 1200 participants in Porto.
The organizers are confident that the 2019 conference will once again be an outstanding event for the European water sector and will contribute to removing innovation barriers and creating opportunities for more water innovation in Europe and globally.
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Job Opening
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18 April 2018
Intern (Water Policy and Regulation)
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Job Opening
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18 April 2018
Research Consultant (Natural Capital)
The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) is looking for a Research Consultant to provide substantive and programmatic support to the GGKP research programme and, particularly, the Natural Capital Expert Working Group. The deadline to apply is 24 April 2018.
The Green Growth Knowledge Platform office in Geneva was launched in January 2014 to support a global partnership of over 40 leading international organizations, research institutes and think tanks focused on:
- Collaboratively identifying knowledge gaps in green growth theory and practice;
- Catalysing knowledge generation to address these gaps; and
- Sharing and disseminating green growth knowledge.
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22 May 2017
DANUBIS.org Breakfast held at the 2017 DWC
IAWD and World Bank organized a breakfast on the Danubis.org water platform, which was attended by donor agency representatives, regulatory agencies, waterworks associations and individual utilities to jointly brainstorm around how to promote and enhance the use of this rich tool, with great potential to promote WSS sector agenda and unique analytical tools by utilities and other stakeholders in the Danube region.
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16 May 2017
Summary of April 24, 2017 DANUBIS.org Steering Group meeting
Please find the Minutes of the DANUBIS.org Steering Group Meeting on 24 April 2017 attached.
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11 May 2017
How to enter the DANUBIS.org Breakfast on 19 May?
Did you know the origin of the term “Benchmark”?
The term “bench mark”, or “benchmark”, originates from the chiseled horizontal marks that surveyors made in stone structures, into which an angle-iron could be placed to form a "bench" for a leveling rod, thus ensuring that a leveling rod could be accurately repositioned in the same place in the future. These marks were usually indicated with a chiseled arrow below the horizontal line. Even today, brass plates can be found all over the U.K. displaying the letters “OSBM” (Ordnance Survey Bench Mark).
Today, benchmarking is most used to measure performance using a specific indicator (cost per unit of measure, productivity per unit of measure, cycle time of x per unit of measure or defects per unit of measure) resulting in a metric of performance that is then compared to others.
If you want to learn more about the benchmarking database on DANUBIS.org, please use the password “Benchmark” to enter the DANUBIS.org Breakfast!
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Upcoming Events
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ADKOM
10th International Conference on Water and Waste Water Reality and Challenges
Orhid, Macedonia/Охрид, Македонија // 24 April 2018 - 26 April 2018
Conference / Workshop
Drinkable pure water in nature has become less in its true form and
is more polluted by various types of pollutants which, at the final
consequence, endanger the health of people.
In the past two decades, all over the world, major steps have been
taken to improve the work of water utilities in terms of optimizing
operating costs and optimizing the quality of services, while also
striving to maintain the price of water at reasonable economic
boundaries.
The main goal of the international conference is to study the various
options that could be taken to "modernize" the regulation of the
water sector in the Republic of Macedonia, in order to promote truly
sustainable utility companies that protect our environment whilst
ensuring services of safe water supply and waste water reuse at
national level.
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY, OTHER, EU INTEGRATION, WATER SERVICES, GENERAL, WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT AND TREATMENT
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REECO SRB DOO
RENEXPO Water&Energy in the Western Balkans
Belgrade, Serbia // 24 April 2018 - 26 April 2018
Conference / Workshop, Exhibition / Fair
RENEXPO® WATER & ENERGY in the Western Balkans, for the fifth time, will take place at BELEXPO CONGRESS CENTER, Belgrade.
RENEXPO® WATER & ENERGY in the Western Balkans has achieved to be the biggest international platform for energy and environmental experts in the region.
During three days events visitors have the opportunity to:
- Meet the industry leaders — from over 20 European countries ranging from a system provider operating on a global scale to highly specialized enterprises - from Environment, Heating Technology, Renewable Energy, Water Management, Electric mobility, Energy Efficiency sector.
- Attend International Conferences, Round Tablas, Exhibitor Forum, Meet up and Seminars
- Learn about new products and services, technologies and solutions
- Attend investment meetings in Investors Business Lounge, where Investment projects from all over the region will be presented
- Attend Guided exhibition tour, Official Evening reception and other side event
3rd SUSTAINABLE WATER AND WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE will be held on Wednesday, 25th of April.
You can found conference program here: http://renexpo-belgrade.com/en/conference/conference-program/3rd-sustainable-water-waste-water-management-conference/
Cost: free
Language: English, Serbian
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@ Croatia
IWA, University of Zagreb, IHE Delft Insitute for Water Education, IAWD etc.
10th Eastern European IWA Young Water Professionals Conference
Zagreb, Croatia // 07 May 2018 - 12 May 2018
Course / Training, Conference / Workshop
The 10th edition of this successful conference format will be organised in Zagreb in 2018.
The focus will be on "New Technologies in the Water Sector" with a special extended program including three-days practical workshops at the WWTP of Zagreb, followed by a two-days scientific conference.
Please find the Call for Papers below!
Language: english
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Country resources
Methodology for the setting of water service tariffs
The Methodology for the setting of water service tariffs shall be adopted so as to set the tariffs by which the water service providers shall generate the regulated revenue required for performing one of the following water services:
- supply with raw water envisaged for water supplying of the population;
- supply with drinking water or water supplying;
- urban wastewater collection and drainage and
- wastewater treatment.
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FYR Macedonia Country Note
Water and Wastewater Services in the Danube Region - A state of the sector
This note is part of a regional state of the sector review and makes an overall assessment of the state of the sector along different dimensions - namely the context for services, the organization of services, access to services, performance of services and the financing of services.
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Sector resources
Wastewater Report 2018 - The Reuse Opportunity
The report aims to illustrate the wastewater challenge
and reuse opportunity in eight cities across the globe, presenting
a reuse roadmap and identifying priorities and benefits
to meeting SDG target 6.3. The cities profiled in this
report are not the ‘usual suspects’ of pioneering cities who
have been on this trajectory for some time, but rather cities
small and large from developing countries where the existing
and future challenges are felt more acutely and the need for
change is pressing.
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A healthy link: The Protocol on Water and Health and the Sustainable Development Goals
Water, sanitation and health are at the core of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The 1999 Protocol on Water and Health is a powerful tool to promote and operationalize the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. With its strong integrated and intersectoral approach, its focus on prevention and on the whole water cycle and its attention to safety and equity aspects, the Protocol’s provisions and principles fully align with SDG 6 “clean water and sanitation”, SDG 3 “good health and well-being” and other water, sanitation and health related targets.
The Protocol’s planning and accountability approach offers a practical framework for Parties to translate the ambitions of the 2030 Agenda into specific national targets and action addressing the key underlying challenges of the sustainable development such as weak governance, intersectoral cooperation and capacity.
The present brochure provides an insight on the linkages between the Protocol and the 2030 Agenda and outlines how the Protocol mechanisms and tools can support countries in achieving the water, sanitation and health related SDGs.
Publisher: United Nations,
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02 April 2018
#Works to Connect Slavonski Brod to New Water Source Begin - Total Croatia News
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He said it would cost five million kuna to connect Slavonski Brod to the Sikirevci water supply plant and reiterated that the people of Slavonski Brod would get lower water bills as they were not getting drinking but technical water. The management of ...and more »
02 April 2018
#Governor, mayors visit prosecutor over Thessaloniki water woes - Kathimerini
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The regional governor for central Macedonia, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, and local mayors were to meet on Monday with a first instance prosecutor in Thessaloniki over a rupture in the northern port's water supply pipeline that left much of the city without ...and more »
01 April 2018
#Slavonski Brod Still Without Drinking Water - Total Croatia News
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Mayor Mirko Duspara said citizens were being supplied with drinking water from 13 tank trucks and that on Saturday the Red Cross provided 6,000 litres of water to the sick or elderly who could not get to the supply points. He added that other towns and ...and more »
01 April 2018
#Army Supplying Slavonski Brod with Drinking Water - Total Croatia News
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Mayor Mirko Duspara linked the water pollution to Wednesday's oil product leakage during the testing of a pipeline between the oil refinery in Bosanski Brod, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Slobodnica location. Duspara briefed President Kolinda-Grabar ...and more »
31 March 2018
#Minister: Citizens Will Not Be Billed for Polluted Water! - Total Croatia News
Total Croatia News
Speaking to the press after a meeting of the Slavonski Brod and Brod-Posavina County civil protection teams, convened over the pollution of the town's water supply plant, Ćorić said the water bills would be lower "first and foremost because of the fact ...and more »