New Articles on Water Operator Partnerships!

Read the new articles on WOPs to find out more. 

Today, almost 1 billion people live without access to improved drinking water sources and 2.5 billion lack access to improved sanitation. In order to reach Millennium Development Goal 7 (MDG7), access to sanitation has to be given to at least 1.5 billion and a safe water supply to 500 million before 2015.

Although the situation is better for water supply than for sanitation, common problems cut across many public water operators and municipal service providers, such as poor strategic management, weak financial and operational management, low funding priority, lack of a sound human resources policy, poor staff skills, absent or weak customer service orientation, political interference, and little or no independent regulation or oversight.

Water Operator Partnerships (WOPs) was introduced as a useful mechanism for providing support for capacity building of public water operators and thereby help improve services to all consumers at a broader scale and at a higher speed.

IWA have published several new articles on the IWA WaterWiki on Water Operator Partnerships. Click on the following links to find out more:

Water Operator Partnerships: What are they?

Water Operator Partnerships: Why use them?

Water Operator Partnerships: Characteristics

Water Operator Partnerships: The way forward

Water Operator Partnerships: Worldwide