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JULY 2012 | TECNOCOM and EFFIWATER ally for water management.
| The partnership, aimed to "lead the national and international water market," will involve joint marketing activity of Effiwater and Tecnocom aswell exchange knowledge and experiences between the two companies. |
The Spanish companies Effiwater and Tecnocom have announced a strategic alliance to "lead the national and international water market." Specifically, the alliance includes joint commercial action and exchange of knowledge and experiences in a portfolio of solutions and services common to both companies.
The agreement will allow a more active presence of Tecnocom in the water sector, including in its portfolio of services of consulting activities and water efficiency savings developed by Effiwater and knowledge of all activities related to water supplier industry. Effiwater incorporates active presence worldwide Tecnocom and its commercial and technical capacity.
Since its inception, Effiwater puts its focus on the efficient management of water resources, mainly oriented towards the efficient management of the infrastructure of integrated water cycle, process water distribution and promotion of responsible consumption of water from the implementation of efficient management models, rigorous and quality. Meanwhile, Tecnocom has a complete catalog of business applications for the Energy and Utilities sector, most notably its Aqua Tec solution that covers the entire business process cycle, from customer management and cadastral areas, business management, virtual office, customer care and incidents, maintenance, construction management, mobility and power management systems, including dashboards.
JUNE 2012 | INWATER awarded two service contracts with AGUAS DE ALCÁZAR EMSA.
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On 12/06/2012 INWATER has been awarded two contracts of REMOTE MAINTENANCE SERVICES with AGUAS DE ALCAZAR EMSA. The first contract is to service remote maintenance facilities in the districts of Alameda de Cervera and Cinco Casas and maintenance of sewage pumps in Campo de Criptana. The second one is to the remote maintenance service in the drinking water facilities in Alcazar de San Juan. |
MARCH 2012 | Too many voices in the water
(Article published in “cincodías.com” on 22 March 2012)
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Sara Acosta - Madrid - 22/03/2012
| A total of 8,100 municipalities decides the management of the water in Spain. The sector requests a regulator to gain effectiveness and to save costs |
This year, the celebration of the World-wide Day of the Water agrees with the debate on the privatization of this resource. Unlike the restlessness in the street, for the operating companies, consulting and organisms public the important thing is that beyond that the management is in charge of a public or deprived company, they are the own city councils, sometimes joint, those that in last instance decide the tariff that falls to the user.
“The water never can be private, is a public good, like the infrastructures, that belong to the State, except the Canary Islands, where yes there are proprietors of the canalizations because they stayed after the approval of the first regulations”, they explain from the consultant Professional Water & Partners, specialized in the sector.
From, if the map of the management in Spain is watched, it is observed there that practically 50% of the facilities are of deprived management, and the other half is public, with multitude of legal figures for their administration. What they share both models is that those are the own city councils that decide when and how to modernize infrastructures and when to raise or to lower the price of the water. Altogether, 8,000 voices put norms in a sector that no longer can allow new concessions by the agony of the Administrations and where the legal insecurity is frightening the investors. For this reason, all the sector in unison requests the creation of a regulator.
“This figure already exists in other sectors, like the energy, why not to restore it in the water? ”, they are asked from this consultant. The complexity of the activity would practically make nonviable that this organism of trusteeship was state, but “could exist on autonomic scale”, add.
“The regulator is important to guarantee the quality of infrastructures”, continue. It is happening in Spain that the city councils not always revert the income of the receipt in the modernization or the maintenance of the supplying infrastructures and in the waste water purification that depend on them, which has a direct influence in the quality of the provision that consumes the citizen.
In the heat of economic recession and drought of concessions in all the sectors, become essential to offer legal security to the investors. And here again the importance of a regulator that serves as handle to attract investments and to guarantee that the city councils do not postpone works of sewage system and waste water purification, two present priorities.
In any case, it does not seem at least at the moment that the management of the urban water has appearances to change. Every year the sector demands the same changes, without it changes really nothing in the structure of the system.
The foreseeable privatization in the management of the Channel of Isabel II of Madrid could be the most visible change, by the fear of many groups of which the price of the water raises and the quality of the service to mer to me. But one remembers again that the tariff is political and does not depend on the concessionary companies.
“The Channel is an example in Spain and outside, she is one of the companies with better infrastructures because it reinverts in them”, they explain from Professional Water. But also it is it Waters of Barcelona, that manages the provision in the condal city. “The private companies tend to bet by a greater automation and a very efficient operation of the plants to maximize the income”, adds from this consultant. When the jewel of the crown of the Community of Madrid, that represents 20% of the map of the water in Spain, happens to deprived hands, 70% of the management of this resource will be private.
Buried it is the debate on the low price of this good in Spain. From the professional organizations one makes sure that one is pleased less by the water than by the movable telephone, and that would be necessary to increase the invoice in a 30% to cover the costs by the maintenance with infrastructures and the necessary investment in sewage system, completely left, according to the experts.
Again, they request the existence of an autonomic or state regulator so that the city councils “lose todopoder and delegate the norms of game of this activity in an organism that assures the investment in necessary infrastructures and they do not play with the price of the water”, concludes an expert voice of the problematic east sector.
Companies continues their race outsideThe number of 19,000 million Euros continues resounding between the operating companies and of engineering in the sector. That is the investment that makes lack in Spain to fulfill the European exigencies in terms of infrastructures and waste water purification. In the last years much has improved and today 80% filter in Spain, but what lack to do runs the risk of dilating sine díe because the companies see lack of contracts to work here. The economic crisis is accentuating the search of projects in the outside on the part of the Spanish companies of engineering and services of water, recognized anywhere in the world. Aqualia of FCC, Drives, OHL, Railroad Cadagua de and Sufi de Sacyr Vallehermoso is some of the great ones that have taken their businesses to the foreigner by the contract drought in Spain. If the flight of the Spanish companies continues, the risk is run of which the little contests are desert, alert from the own companies. With the traditional model of exhausted concession, the public-private participation is outlined like the unique viable option so that the great ones decide to maintain part of their business in the country. “He is one of the few ways that are to explore. It is a good scheme because it will help to that the financing is possible”, has explained previously to this Aquagest newspaper, precursor of this public-private model in the national market, with the creation of mixed companies for the management. Another way is to invent new formulas, as to serve technological or of consultancy to rationalize the consumption.
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