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The climate action plan for the water sector emphasises the message that Danish water technology can help find solutions to global climate challenges. The ambition of the political parties behind the agreement is for the water companies in Denmark to be energy and climate-neutral. The key figures for the water sector show that the water companies are already well on the way to achieving this.

This report sets out to illustrate the growing relevance of the urban water cycle due to the current situation, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, since it becomes an essential element in guaranteeing the health and hygiene of citizens, promoting sustainable growth that helps improve the environment, as well as contribute to economic recovery by creating quality employment and strengthening the welfare state.

The overall goal of this study is to understand the renewal of investment needs concerning the urban water cycle in Spain. To achieve this objective, three specific goals were identified:

1. Performing an inventory of special infrastructures and networks that make up the integrated urban water cycle, in its current actual configuration.

2. Calculating the as-new replacement value of the cost resulting from setting up all that capital.

3. Estimating the annual cost of renewal investment to sustainably maintain the capital, stemming from different scenarios based on their renewal period.

The scope of this project covers the analysis of urban water cycle investment needs, distinguishing between water supply and sanitation services. In turn, each part of the integrated water cycle is broken down into networks and special infrastructures.

The scope of application of this study encompasses those infrastructures that support local and regional water supply and sanitation services; thus, regulation infrastructures that are a matter of water basins’ competence are not covered.

This seventh edition of the BIPE-BDO/FP2E overview of public water and wastewater services in France comes amid the reaffirmation of a political will in France to reinvest in the sector. This, together with a drive to improve performances through contractual arrangements between actors, was clearly in evidence at the sector's national conference, the Assises de l'Eau. The ambition to achieve greater efficiency of services is reflected in the extensive use of strategic planning and the trend towards greater data transparency. Achieving the good status of water bodies remains a priority objective – an objective reinforced with the revision of the European Water Framework Directive. Indeed, adapting to the effects of climate change is now an imperative that cannot be ignored.

Les services publics d’eau et d’assainissement en France 7ème édition Données économiques, sociales & environnementales