Filip Bertzbach, aquabench GmbH, Germany
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www.aquabench.de
Benchmarking – Learning from the best European benchmarking experiences in the water sector
Filip Bertzbach
Brussels, November 17, 2015
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aquabench - from the industry, for the industry
• Founded by 11 leading German and
Swiss operators with benchmarking
experience since 1996
• More than 800 voluntary participants
• Around 25 continuous benchmarking
projects for the whole water cycle
• Supporting benchmarking in Arab
countries, Belgium, France, Peru, Poland
• Member of
• ISO TC 224 “Water services”
• IWA Specialist Group “Benchmarking
and Performance Assessment”
• EIP Action Group „Benchmarking of
the Future“
• German Technical working groups
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Discussion on benchmarking and transparency in
European water sector
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Are Benchmarking and transparency compatible?
Benchmarking is a management tool
Link does exist already in the sector
Tools need to be combined meaningfully
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Benchmarking in the water sector – a clearly defined
management tool for improvement
DVGW, DWA
20081
IWA
20112
ISO 24523 draft
20153
1DVGW, DWA (2008) (German technical standards), 2Cabrera et al. (2011) (International manual for benchmarking projects) 3ISO-Draft
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Industry based benchmarking initiatives in Europe and
its succes factors
• Clear ownership
• Learning not ranking
• Focus
• Communication
• Confidentiality
Non-exhaustive list of national continuous benchmarking initiatives initiated by industry associations: Austria ÖAWV), Balkan and Ukraine (Water Danube
Initiative), Belgium (Aquaflanders), Denmark (DANVA), France (FNCCR), Germany (various), Netherlands (Rioned, Vewin), Rumania (ARA), Scandinavia (Six-
Cities group), Switzerland (SVGW)… Additionally European Benchmarking Cooperation (EBC) has participants from allmost all European countries.
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Participants who derived
changes of operation Other participants
Ownership - Who takes decisions on results?
Source: Example of Performance indicator in benchmarking sewer operation of aquabench, Germany
Share of
cleaned
sewers
p.a. [%]
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Sustain-
ability
Customer
Relia-
bility
Efficiency
Quality
Learning not ranking - utilities have to
balance different goals
Staff analysis
Cost analysis
Finance of investment
Water losses
Quality of supply
Failures
Catchment protection
Social sustainability
Economic sustainability
Ressource consumption
Quality of service
Customer information
Complaints
Reliability of supply
Resources utilisation
…
Treatment utilisation
…
… …
… Source (adapted): Schulz, Goebel „Balanced Score Card at Emschergenossenschaft / Lippeverband“
Ofwat (2012):,„Regulatory compliance – a proportionate and targeted approach a consultation”, London.
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More focus means more actions
Level of detail
Performance
assessment
Performance
improvement
Utility
Function
Process
Task Identifi-
ability of
causes +
actions
Source: IWA 2011 and ISO/DIS 24523 „Guidelines for benchmarking of water utilities” (Draft);
Bertzbach, F., Moeller, K., Nothhaft, S., Waidelich, P., Schulz, A (2012), “15 years of voluntary benchmarking – how it supports the
modernisation strategy of the German water sector“, Water Utility Management International, December 2012
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Communication - benchmarking is more than metrics
Facilitate data collection efforts
(manuals, software, support-desk)
Explain the results in reports,
presentations and workshops
Exchange experiences in
workshops and on-site visits
Find and communicate
solutions (Best practice
databases) Source: Cabrera et al (2008), Performance Assessment of Urban Infrastructure Systems
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Are Benchmarking and transparency compatible?
Benchmarking is a management tool
Link does exist already in the sector
Tools need to be combined meaningfully
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Various communication tools are already linked with
benchmarking initiatives
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Example on European level - Initiative of EEA to publish
set of core indicators (2014)
Source: http://projects.eionet.europa.eu/wise-tg/library/thematic-issues/water-utilities-resource-efficiency/european-water-utility-expert-meeting-13-14.12.2012-copenhagen/
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Example on national level - German “Profil of the water
sector”, Danish “Water in figures”
Source: http://de.dwa.de/profile_of_the_german_water_Sector.html
http://reader.livedition.dk/danva/150//
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Example on regional level – Reports of German Federal
states
Source: https://www.bdew.de/internet.nsf/id/EFA98EDFC327911BC1257A47004B7C62/$file/120726_2_Auflage_BDEW_Wasser_Benchmarking_Broschuere_dt.pdf/
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(New) examples on local level
App of Portugues Regulator (ERSAR)
on key information about water and
waste services in each of the 278
Portuguese mainland municipalities
(since 2014)
Tariff-information sheets used in
Rhineland-Palatine, Germany
(since 2012)
Source: http://www.ersar.pt/website/viewcontent.aspx?name=appERSAR
http://wasser.rlp.de/servlet/is/8646/
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Are Benchmarking and transparency compatible?
Benchmarking is a management tool
Link does exist already in the sector
Tools need to be combined meaningfully
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E.G. Tariffs – Does publishing tariffs on international
level empower citizens?
Source: https://tariffs.ib-net.org/Compare?page=4&offset=30
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Why? On which level? For whom? What information?
Open or confidential?
Source:
http://www.salga.org.za/documents/download/app/webroot/assets/files/Research_Results/MBI2013AnnualReport_final3_6_2014%20(3).pdf
http://www.wasserbenchmarking-rp.de/27.projektmaterialien-dokumente.html
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Local information via internet or tariff bill: Household
size, cost allocation and context information
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Different costs – according to different households
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Cost allocation according to benchmarking data
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Additional information is given in internal „Tariff-
Benchmarking“
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Abgabenbereinigte Umsatzerlöse Öffentliche Abgaben
Erträge Auflösung Ertragszuschüsse Erträge Auflösung Fördermittel und Zuschüsse
Aufwandsdeckungsgrad
Utility
Revenues (without Transfers)
Public Transfer and Subvention
Cost recovery
Public levies
(Private) subsidies
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Participants are proud of such benchmarking activities
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Benchmarking and transparency - possible way forward
Support or participate in industry based benchmarking
Complete picture of existing tools
Combine (existing) tools meaningfully (and define goals of communication)
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International search for best practices - invitation
• Invitation to practice:
• Clear ownership
• Learning not ranking
• Focus
• Communication
• Confidentiality
• Benchmarking Wastewater treatment
plants (start in 2016)