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Dr Daniel VILLESSOTPresident of Eureau

daniel.villessot@lyonnaise-des-eaux.fr

EU Sanitation Policies and Practices in the

2008 International Year of Sanitation

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Presentation of Eureau

• European federation of national associations of drinking water and wastewater services providers

• Serving around 405 million people in EU + EFTA countries

• Objectives of Eureau members are : to produce and supply drinking water of high quality from

non polluted sources of raw water to collect and treat wastewater efficiently before discharging

it into receiving bodies to provide sustainable water and wastewater services at

affordable costs to European citizens

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EUREAU:

European Federation of

National Associations of

Water Suppliers and

Waste Water Services

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International Year of Sanitation

The challenges of the International Year of Sanitation: Target 10 of the MDGs is to “halve by 2015 the

proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation”

WHO* estimated total spending, excluding programme costs is US $ 142 billion, or US$ 28 per capita, or US$ 14 billion per year

Main efforts on WHO Western Pacific region, South-East Asia, African region (84% of total)

Europe and newer Member States?*Guy Hutton, Jamie Bartram, Bulletin of the WHO, January 2008, 86 (1)

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International Year of Sanitation

Estimated total spending required, including maintaining and replacing existing infrastructure and facilities and extending coverage to existing and future increases in population: US$ 360 billion

59% in urban areas Interregional variation exists in these estimates and sharesEU and newer MS certainly not the major issue world wide

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Clarifying Components of « Sanitation »*

• Do we speak about the same issue under “sanitation”?

• Two official concepts: “Basic sanitation

“Improved sanitation”

• Drainage of stormwater

• Treatment, disposal, reuse or recycling of effluents

• A common ground for politicians, public health, environment, water practitioners is necessary

*AquaFed, Stockholm, August 13th 2007

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Eureau supports the IYS

Eureau members support the IYS:

At EU level, within the “newer Member States”• Regular actions the year long through out the Commissions

• A workshop under the Slovenian Presidency, in May?

Providing European support for sustainable sanitation outside the EU (Africa, Asia, South East Asia, Latin America)

• Through out direct partnerships

• Through out national and/or international associations

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RETURNS FROM THE FIELD ON IYS TARGETS IN EU

EU fundings from ISPA to the new Cohesion Funds (CF)

Mainly addressing urban population sanitation rather than rural and small population (eg Ostrava and Brno in CZ Republic)

Projects over 10 M€

More CF on wastewater, but projects are still under development and should also address the rural areas

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SAMTID programme (Small And Medium Town Infrastructure Development)

• ToR for future SAMTID projects

• Management support to Project Coordination Unit

• Support the stregthening of Associations of Municipalities

• Support the strengthening od regional Operating Companies

• Assistance to ROC in elaboration of Water and Wastewater Master Plans

• Revised guidelines for WWMP

PHARE (EC), Dec 2004-Dec2006, M€ 3,6; (UK, Safege, GIE)

RETURNS FROM ROMANIA

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• Large agglomeration provide better ecological effects

• Project: Operational Programme for Infrastructure and Environment include small projects in Natura 2000 areas (CF 2,8M€+ public funds 16,7M€)

• Polish waste management planning: upgrade of 1734 WWTP (including small WWTP) + 37000 km sewers; cost 10 M€

* From Klara Szatkiewicz, Eureau Board member for Poland

RETURNS FROM POLAND*

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RETURNS FROM PARTNERSHIPS

• Several partnerships have been signed up between Eureau members and NMS : Poland, Baltic Countries, etc…

• Nowadays they are called WOPs (Water Operators Partnerships, after UN and IWA agreement) Den Hague (11-13 November 2007)

Mainly on urban areas

• PPP with private operators in CZ, HU, RO, BU are covering urban areas, but after some years, are extended to rural areas

• Always involving local governance, financial issues and management of facilities, O&M best practices, and local staff training

• PSP

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More on Sanitation MDGs and IYS

• Some recommendations from Eureau members:CAPEX are certainly essential to start dealing with the

sanitation of small rural areas in the NMS, but…Local governance is of paramount importance to ensure

appropriate O&M of the systems (sewers + WWTP)• Acting Local authority• Authorisation, registration of the facilities at State level

OPEX for maintenance and monitoring of performances should also be included in order to better improve the water bodies! (ref WFD)

• Regulation?

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Thank You !

daniel.villessot@lyonnaise-des-eaux.fr

EU Sanitation Policies and Practices in the

2008 International Year of Sanitation