Dr Daniel VILLESSOT President of Eureau daniel.villessot@lyonnaise-des-eaux.fr

1. EU Sanitation Policies and Practices in the 2008 International Year of Sanitation Dr Daniel VILLESSOT President of Eureau daniel.villessot@lyonnaise-des-eaux.fr

2. Presentation of Eureau • European federation of national associations of drinkingwater 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

3. EUREAU: European Federation of National Associations of Water Suppliers and Waste Water Services 1

4. 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)

5. 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 shares • EU and newer MS certainly not the major issue world wide

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. RETURNS FROM ROMANIA 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)

10. RETURNS FROM POLAND* • 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

11. 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

12. 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?

13. EU Sanitation Policies and Practices in the 2008 International Year of Sanitation Thank You ! daniel.villessot@lyonnaise-des-eaux.fr