Water Operator Partnerships Europe:

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Water Operator Partnerships Europe
Moving WOPs Forward
Paul Reiter IWA
Executive Director

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Pressing Next Steps

• Empowerment of the network -- mobilizing the
  national committees - Steen Bjergaard
• Financing -- Work to better understand the
  interests, needs and options for donors/banks
• Best practice business/legal models for WOPs
  (bilateral) highlight successful alternative
  approached
• Enabling national legislation catalog existing
  models and expand on possibilities
• WOP ebay Data and systems to help in the
  matching process

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Follow Up Events

• Part Two of this event political and
  stakeholder emphasis
• Water Utility Leader Forum
• Vienna Sept 2008
• Global WOPs rollout with UN-Habitat Vienna
  Sept 2008
• 2nd IWA European Utility Conference WOP Paris
  Dec 2008
• IWA Development Congress
• Mexico Sept 2009 (South-South Focus)