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Stockholm Water Company

Stockholm Water Company. Serving greater part of Stockholm area Turnover 1.1 billion SEK Billed volume 100 million cubic meters 2 000 km water supply network 3 000 km sewage network 560 staff Among the lowest water tariff in Sweden. Stockholm Water Company.

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Stockholm Water Company

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  1. Stockholm Water Company • Serving greater part of Stockholm area • Turnover 1.1 billion SEK • Billed volume 100 million cubic meters • 2 000 km water supply network • 3 000 km sewage network • 560 staff • Among the lowest water tariff in Sweden

  2. Stockholm Water Company • Comprehensive public water company • Applies the principle of IWRM • Well-known for its engagement in international knowledge transfer • Initiator and sponsor of the World Water Week

  3. Ideological shift in Stockholm 2006 • Liberal-conservative City Council government • Emphasis on; core-business, out-sourcing, tax reduction and individaulistic consumer-orientated behaviour • ”Milk cow for various projects” • Too high administrative budget

  4. Concern structure Stockholm City Infrastructure Company Stockholm Water Company AB • Stockholm Water VA AB • Stockholm Water Development AB • Stockholm Water Construction AB • Stockholm Water Laboratory Service AB • Henriksdal Waterfront City Sewage Treatment Plant

  5. Restructuring impacts • Staff reduction: 108 superfluous • 100 million SEK reduction in network maintenance • ”Demand-driven maintenance” • Sharply reduction or closed down of engagement in international affairs, public information and environmental protection

  6. Actor protests (1) • Opposition parties: ”the rationale of the proposed changes is still kept in darkness, but it is supposed to be of ideological, emotional and old.fashioned neo-liberal character” • Trade unions: staff lay off means no long-term savings for consumers • Consumer polls: no interest in lower water tariff, the same for the Swedish Self-owned Housing Association

  7. Actor protest (2) • Water professionals: - Sweco International worried for technology export - Envac; ”Hammarby Waterfront City best example in the world of new technology” - Rector of KTH protests against out-sourcing of Waterfront City research sewage treatment plant - Five professors from John Hopkins University (e.g David W Schindler, Sthlm Water Price Winner) worried of future environmental impacts - CEO Svenskt Vatten AB: ”downgrading spiral of the whole Swedish VA-sector...good international reputation in danger”

  8. Comments • President Erik Wesslén of Stockholm Water Company: ”scaring propaganda” • Erik Winnfors, Ed. Cirkulation: ”Mutilation of resources...loss of influence...stripped of all but the technical operation...The French water giant Veolia must rub it hands for such a good cake”

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