Performance Indicators for Water Supply Services ( Manual of Best Practice Series )

Publication series :Manual of Best Practice Series

Author: Helena Alegre  

Publisher: IWA Publishing‎

Publication year: 2006

E-ISBN: 9781780405292

Subject: T Industrial Technology

Keyword: 工业技术

Language: ENG

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Performance Indicators for Water Supply Services

Description

The IWA Performance Indicator System for water services is now recognized as a worldwide reference. Since it first appearance in 2000, the system has been widely quoted, adapted and used in a large number of projects both for internal performance assessment and metric benchmarking. Water professionals have benefited from a coherent and flexible system, with precise and detailed definitions that in many cases have become a standard. The system has proven to be adaptable and it has been used in very different contexts for diverse purposes. The Performance Indicators System can be used in any organization regardless of its size, nature (public, private, etc.) or degree of complexity and development. The second edition of Performance Indicators for Water Supply Services represents a further improvement of the original manual. It contains a reviewed and consolidated version of the indicators, resulting from the real needs of water companies worldwide that were expressed during the extensive field testing of the original system. The indicators now properly cover bulk distribution and the needs of developing countries, and all definitions have been thoroughly revised. The confidence grading scheme has been simplified and the procedure to assess the results- uncertainty has been significantly enhanced. In addition to the updated contents of the original edition, a large part of the manual is now devoted to the practical application of the system. Complete with simplified step-by-ste

Chapter

2.3 Data reliability and accuracy

3. THE IWA SYSTEM OF PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

3.1 Objective

3.2 Structure

Performance indicators

Variables

Context information and other system data

3.3 Using the IWA system of performance indicators

3.4 Performance indicators

Underlying assumptions

Water resources indicators

Personnel indicators

Physical indicators

Operational indicators

Quality of service indicators

Economic and financial indicators

3.5 Variables

3.6 Explanatory factors

Types of explanatory factors

Context information

Performance indicators and variables as explanatory factors

Other explanatory factors

4. IMPLEMENTATION OF A PI SYSTEM

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Using IWA indicators in a performance measurement system

4.3 Definition of the objectives

4.4 Definition of strategies

4.5 Establishment of the Critical Success Factors

4.6 Establishment of a Performance Indicators System

Definition of the strategic performance assessment policy

Selection of the PI to be assessed

4.7 Assessment of the performance indicators

4.8 Continuous improvement

5. EXAMPLES OF APPLICATION

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The use of the IWA PI system to support the rehabilitation of water networks

Background, objectives and scope of application

Selection / definition of PI system elements

The rehab PI tool

Pilot testing

Concluding remarks

5.3 The Portuguese experience on the regulation of the water and waste sectors

Introduction

Type of services to be regulated

The need for regulation at the sector

The purpose of regulation by IRAR

The scope of IRAR’s action

The regulation model used by IRAR

Service assessment, benchmarking and public information

Results from the first year of implementation

Concluding remarks

5.4 Benchmarking case study based on IWA performance indicators: “Efficiency and quality analysis of water supply in Bavaria (Germany)” (Authors: Wolf Merkel and Wolfram Hirner)

Background

Objectives within EffWB

Participant structure and context information

Establishment of the PI system

Qualitative and quantitative results

Concluding remarks

5.5 The use of indicators for the efficient management of water resources in Comunidad de Madrid SPAIN (Author: Francisco Cubillo)

Introduction

The main components of efficiency analysis

Geographical scope

Time frame

Strategic approach for efficiency

Initiatives for the control and optimisation of the use of the resources

Concluding remarks

6. REFERENCES AND SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

PART II – SPECIFICATION OF THE IWA PI SYSTEM

1. DEFINITIONS

1.1 Water balance definitions

Definition of water supply system inputs and outputs

Water balance components

1.2 Organisation functions

1.3 Financial definitions

1.4 Complementary definitions

2. PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Quick reference listing of the IWA PI

2.3 Water resources indicators

2.4 Personnel indicators

Total personnel

Personnel per main function

Technical services personnel per activity

Personnel qualification

Personnel training

Personnel health and safety

Overtime work

2.5 Physical indicators

Treatment

Storage

Pumping

Transmission and distribution

Meters

Automation and control

2.6 Operational indicators

Inspection and maintenance of physical assets

Instrumentation calibration

Electrical and signal transmission equipment inspection

Mains, valves and service connection rehabilitation

Pumps rehabilitation

Water losses

Failures

Water metering

Water quality monitoring

2.7 Quality of service indicators

Coverage

Public taps and standpipes

Pressure and continuity of supply

Quality of supplied water

Service connection and meter installation and repair

Customer complaints

2.8 Economic and financial indicators Revenues

Costs

Composition of running costs per type of costs

Composition of running costs per main function of the water undertaking

Composition of running costs per technical function activity

Composition of capital costs

Investments

Average water charges

Efficiency indicators

Leverage indicators

Liquidity indicator

Profitability indicators

Water losses indicators

3. VARIABLES

3.1 Section A – Water volume data

3.2 Section B – Personnel data

3.3 Section C – Physical assets data

Water storage

Treatment plants

Pumping stations

Transmission and distribuition network

Metering and control equipment

Service connections

3.4 Section D – Operational data

Energy consumption

Inspection and maintenance

Preventive maintenance

Network pressure and service continuity

Metering

Water quality monitoring

3.5 Section E – Demography and customer data

3.6 Section F – Quality of service data

Service

Customer complaints

3.7 Section G – Economic and Financial data

3.8 Section H – Time data

3.9 Variables alphabetical lists

Water volume data, page II-204

Personnel data, page II-211

Physical assets data, page II-219

Operational data, page II-225

Demography (and customer) data, page II-240

Quality of service data, page II-242

Economic and financial data, page II-248

Time data, page II-263

4. CONTEXT INFORMATION

4.1 Quick reference CI listing

4.2 Undertaking profile

4.3 Service information

4.4 System assets

Water resources

Impounding reservoir storage

Treatment plants

Transmission and distribution storage tanks / Service reservoirs

Pumping stations

Transmission and distribution network

Service connections

Private pumping systems and tanks

4.5 Consumption and peak factors

Average system input

Consumption per type of customer

Peak factors of supplied and exported water

4.6 Demography and economics

4.7 Environment

Annual rainfall

Air temperature

Topography

Raw water quality Source types

5. UNCERTAINTIES AND UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION

Accuracy, reliability and uncertainty

Law of propagation of uncertainty

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