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Creating a better story for water

ABOUT THE GROUPThe Global Water Leaders Group is a not-for-profit organisation that exists to improve the world of water. It achieves this by tapping into the expertise of water leaders from across the world. We encorage them to share their ideas and experiences, and to help them make the case for water.

OUR LEADERSHIPDr. William Muhairwe, formerly CEO of Ugandan National Water and Sewerage Corporation, is Executive Director of the Global Water Leaders Group.Dr Muhairwe is responsible for one of the African water industry’s great success stories - the turnaround of Ugandan Water and Sewerage Corporation.

We host our major annual meeting at the Global Water Summit because it is widely regarded as the world’s foremost conference in the water sector, attracting influential stakeholders and facilitating partnerships.

WHY PARTNER?

NETWORKING SHAPING THE INDUSTRY

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

PROMOTE YOUR MESSAGE

Our CEO-level meetings bring together individuals who are interested in developing the water sector, discovering new technologies and undertaking game-changing projects. Here, you will build strong business relationships which may create opportunities in the near future, and also lay the foundations for the long-term. The opportunity to meet with your potential business partners of the future is unmissable.

Not only will you meet some of the most influential thought-leaders in the industry, but your contributions during the CEO-level workshops will help shape the discussions and lead to positive change for water. Partnering with this influential Group of CEOs will ensure your voice is heard. Partners of GWS and AWS dinners are also invited to give a visionary speech to the leaders. This is a unique and exclusive opportunity!

Our mission is to create a better story for water. Partnering with the GWLG - thought-leading public and private sector CEOs - means you will be aligned with people who can make a real difference for the world’s most precious resource. It is an opportunity to demonstrate cooperation and to become part of a unified voice for a meaningful improvement for water and for the lives of more than 1 billion people worldwide.

Partnering with the GWLG will give you the opportunity to promote your company’s message to the entire sector across several platforms. Receive full-page advertising in the ultimate CEOs coffee table book - Water Leader magazine - which is distributed to around 2,500 CEOs and thought-leaders. You will also feature in online advertising on the GWLG website, as well as being included on signage at all Water Leader events.

We are a cluster of utility CEOs representing more than 1 billion municipal water customers!

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The Story Behind

The Tariffs

Water-wastewater tariffs

are trending upwards in

2012–2013. The top

performers reveal their

performance strategies.

Sailing Towards

Success

PUB’S Chief Executive,

Chew Men Leong, looks at

Singapore’s water security

and building a global

hydrohub.

Better Water For

Dhaka

Water Leaders Award

funds brought the next

stage of Dhaka WASA’s

LIC Programme to fruition.

Discover the results.

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The Global Water Leaders Group

believes in bringing all participants of

the sector together to create a better

story for water. The Group partners with

organisations that are motivated to drive

performance in the water sector and

that are interested in participating in the

thought-leading and game-changing

discussions that will change the face of

water over the next decade. The CEOs

of partner organisations are exclusively

invited to sit alongside the champions of

utility leadership to network, suggest and

formulate solutions during the Group's

major global events throughout the year.

FOUNDATION PARTNER

The Global Water Leaders Group is proud to announce ACWA

Power as its Foundation Partner. By taking the lead in this role,

ACWA Power is truly championing the private sector’s drive to

put performance on the agenda for water, with real results.

OPPORTUNITY

AGlobal Water Leaders Group. If y

our organisation is interested

in partnering with, and contributing to, the work of the Global

Water Leaders Group, please contact Secretary General,

Samantha Yates, at

sy@globalwaterleaders.org for more details.

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Millionaire’s Digest

Today, unexpected value

and growth from anaerobic

digestion is changing more

and more utilities into

millionaires. But the value

doesn’t stop there...

Towards The Digital

Utility

Smart networks provide

utilities with mountains of

useful data. So, what are

the risks, lessons and best

methods to go digital?

Realising Revenue

Non-revenue water is a

global utility challenge.

Now is the time to reward

bill-payers and crack down

on illegal water use in the

developing world.

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Harlan Kelly

GM of the San Francisco

PUC, featured in Getting All

Emotional (p.26), is embarking

on the sexiest customer

outreach campaign the utility

sector has ever seen.

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Amina J. MohammedSpecial Advisor of the UN

Secretary-General on Post-2015

Development Planning, featured

in Brave New Goals (p.30),

is setting the agenda for the

global water sector.

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TomorrowToday

Tomorrow’s successes won’t be built

with yesterday’s thinking.

At Black & Veatch, we’re focused on building a more sustainable

water future with new thinking to address the world’s growing

needs and bridge gaps associated with infrastructure investment,

sustainability and customer engagement. From water supply and

treatment to used water treatment and resource recovery, and

from infrastructure systems to asset management, we partner with

clients and communities around the globe to deliver innovative,

triple bottom-line solutions.

We’re building a world of difference. Together.

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For more information visit us at bv.com/water

Got Water?Water and milk are not so

different: bland and ‘boring.’

Learning from the “Got Milk?“

campaign, our new research

says water can increase its

value perception by 55%

EPM: From Municipal

to Multinational EPM continues to go

beyond ‘local.’ It is now on

the path to become one of

Latin America’s 50 largest

companies by 2022.

The Performance Challenge Would you take the top

job at an ailing utility? The

Caribbean’s CEOs took the

hypothetical challenge.

Then the real work began!

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PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT

Our main goal is to find solutions and take action when it comes to the water challenge. The GWLG is working with the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council (GAC) to create a new model for water access. This is how the GWLG is actively creating a better story for water. We are constantly striving to present the sector with practical and creative solutions, including building a road map for municipal performance.

LEADERSHIP TRAINING

We devised a new way of training CEOs to think strategically and creatively about utility transformation by developing case study materials. The materials were based on a real transformation story (the identity of which was not revealed until the end of the training) but presented to the CEOs in stages and with questions to help them develop their own methods of problem-solving. The CEOs were encouraged to think outside the box to develop new performance methodologies.

MAGAZINE

The GLWG maps the performances of water utilities in its official publication Water Leader magazine, distributed three times per year. Included is ground-breaking primary research, high performing and transforming utilities stories, as well as new developments in water policies, regulations and legal frameworks. In addition, the findings of leading water conferences in the world are also reported in the magazine, including the Global Water Summit and American Water Summit.

NETWORKING

The Global Water Leaders Group (GWLG) arranges a series of events throughout the year all over the globe. These enable utility leaders, ministers, and our Partners to meet and exchange ideas and experiences. We also host workshops to collaborate as a group on how we can improve the public sector. Locations of previous meetings include Athens, Houston, Barbados, Paris, Washington DC, Seville, Rome, Singapore and Chicago.

WHAT WE DO

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* Please register for the main Global Water Summit and American Water Summit via Global Water Intelligence ** The GWLG website has the strongest SEO of all similar websites

► PLATINUM » Join the GWLG board to help shape the

programme development which works towards impacting the global sector

» Invitation for CEO (plus on other C-level delegate) to attend the GWLG dinner

» Invitation for CEO to attend GWLG invite-only sessions taking place at the Global Water Summit

» An invitation for CEO (plus on other C-level delegate) to attend all additional events organised by the GWLG throughout the year of partnership

» A full page advertisement in ‘Water Leader’ magazine x3 issues (that is, one full volume of publication)

» Premium advertising space on the GWLG website**

» Branding presence on the ‘Our Partners’ page of the GWLG website**

» Branding presence on all marketing materials (including those at all other events organised by the GWLG throughout the year of partnership)

» Logo presence on all GWLG e-mail correspondence

► GOLD » Invitation for CEO to attend dinner taking

place at the Global Water Summit

» Invitation for CEO to attend GWLG sessions taking place at the Global Water Summit *

» An invitation for CEO to attend all additional events organised by the GWLG throughout the year of partnership

» Branding presence on the GWLG website**

» Branding presence on all marketing materials (including those at all other events organised by the GWLG throughout the year of partnership)

» A full page advertisement in ‘Water Leader’ magazine x3 (that is one full volume of the publication)

» One advertisement space on the Global Water Leader Group website **

EXCLUSIVE

► SILVER » Invitation for CEO to attend the GWLG

dinner taking place at the Global Water Summit

» Invitation for CEO to attend GWLG sessions taking place at the Global Water Summit*

» Invitation for CEO to attend the GWLG dinner and GWLG sessions taking place at the American Water Summit *

» Branding presence on the GWLG website**

» Branding presence on all marketing materials (including those at all other events organised by the GWLG throughout the year of partnership)

» Half page advertisements in ‘Water Leader’ magazine x3 issues (that is one full volume of the publication)

► BRONZE » Invitation for CEO to attend the GWLG

dinner at the Global Water Summit OR the American Water Summit

» Invitation to attend Global Water Leader sessions taking place at the Global Water Summit OR the American Water Summit

» Branding presence on the GWLG website**

» One half page advertisement in ‘Water Leader’ magazine (a choice between 1 of 3 issues published annually)

► EXECUTIVE PARTNER OF THE GLOBAL WATER LEADER DINNERS

During either the Global Water Summit or the American Water Summit. » Invitation for CEO to attend the GWLG

dinner taking place at the Global Water Summit (GWS) / American Water Summit (AWS)

» Invitation for CEO to attend GWLG sessions taking place at the GWS / AWS*

» Opportunity for the CEO to give a 5 minute visionary keynote speech to the Water Leaders at the GWLG dinner

» Top branding presence on the GWLG dinner signage

» 2 additional invitations for executives of your choice to attend the dinner

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GLOBAL LEADERSHIP. LOCAL MANAGEMENT

• EUROPE • AFRICA • AUSTRALIA • ASIA •• NORTH AMERICA • CENTRAL AMERICA • SOUTH AMERICA •

Excellent, well-organised, fantastic venue and the relaxed networking atmosphere was perfect. ► Adam Lovell, Executive Director of WSAA

“The workshops were very interesting, I had the fantastic opportunity to learn more about the contribution of water in the development of cities, and also the technologies for wastewater treatment.” ► Marco Vargas Medina, CEO of SEDAPAL

“It was innovative, well-organised and interesting because it focused on relevant subjects.” ► Khalil Attia, CEO of ONAS

“It was my pleasure to be part of a group of very inspiring people focused on similar objectives.” ► Gelia Frederick van-Genderen, Director of the Cayman Islands Water Authority