Many water utilities in Southeast Asia face the challenge of meeting the increasing demand for better water supply and sanitation coverage to achieve the Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs) water targets. Enormous resources are required for these utilities to expand, replace, and renew its facilities to increase service efficiency—an urgent matter in developing countries where water services are inadequate.
Asset management—the stretching of scarce financial resources through more efficient operations and appropriate investments—is an important component of bringing about better efficiencies in the delivery of water supply and sanitation services. A comprehensive approach to asset management focuses on minimizing the total cost of acquiring, operating, maintaining, replacing and disposing of a utility’s assets and doing it in a way that achieves the level of service that customers desire.
The World Bank Institute (WBI) in collaboration with the Southeast Asian Water Utilities Network (SEAWUN) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) developed this Workshop to discuss how comprehensive asset management can increase productivity and improve efficiency of water utilities in Southeast Asia.
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The objectives of the workshop were to:
- Bring greater awareness among water and sanitation utilities in Southeast Asia on how asset management can help optimize the use of their resources
- Build the capacity of water utilities for improved performance
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The workshop included the following topics:
- Sector challenges in the Asian region
- Overview of comprehensive asset management: framework and context
- Assets creation: sizing and building future assets
- Non revenue water (NRW) reduction
- Approaches to NRW reduction in ADB projects
- Managing facilities and networks: making the best use of assets
- Renewal, rehabilitation and replacement of facilities
- Information management for good decision making
- Asset management and business planning
- Enabling conditions for efficient asset management
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The workshop was organized by WBI, SEAWUN, and ADB.
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Fifty-one (51) representatives from SEAWUN member utilities and countries, government officials, and donor agencies participated in the workshop.
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The workshop was held at ADB Headquarters in Manila, Philippines.
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