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Towards the end of the webinar, a participant asked what is the minimum size of water system asset management is useful for. Heather answered that one person is the minimum size. She explained there is no size too small because she actually uses asset management thinking for her household and …
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Discussing on infrastructure asset management mandate in New Zealand towns and cities, Heather observed that the country was keen on achieving financial efficiency and flexibility of implementing agencies. She expressed that they would not want somebody to say, “You must use program X. You must …
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With reference to the crumbling water infrastructure of America, a participant asked the question "Why asset management hasn't been regulated in US towns and cities like in New Zealand?" Ross said that he doesn't know much about American politics and mentioned that New Zealand regulated quite …
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Ross discussed the importance of asset management in terms of saving money and preventing infrastructure breakdown that would affect normal utility operation and maintenance budget. Ross explains: Asset management is about committing a bit of thought up front, a bit of inspection and a …
Discussing how to institutionalize asset management in local authorities and utility organizations, Heather and Ross presented two ways this could be done. Celebrating your successes Heather observed that asset management thinking gets to be embedded by celebrating your successes. We’re not …
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The ongoing drought in the American West has been raising concerns about the nation's water use and supply. Water scarcity has both political and economical ramifications. The Hamilton Project has taken the recent water crisis seriously and has written a paper highlighting nine economic facts …
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Heather and Ross discussed how to deal with the “sawtooth” phenomenon in administering infrastructure asset management in the utility system. Heather maintained that having more leaders getting involved in the asset management process can help deal with the “sawtooth” problem. She said that when …
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Heather finds the "sawtooth" problem as a very interesting issue, which she experienced with utilities she has been working with. She concludes that Ross is right about the problem. She learned this from Ross when he came three years ago. She asked Ross to talk about the "sawtooth" …
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An asset system may gather data that needs to be sorted and presented to end-users. Heather and Ross provided some ideas. Heather said that one has to think about what is it you want to make decisions about. This will help set your outputs for your process, she said. It should answer the …
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For a small water utility that's manned by an all-volunteer board, there's a question on who will do the updating of inventory and asset management plan. Heather replied that once you've got the process in place, again looking at it as a very small utility that maybe now a lot is changing, it …
Knowing the frequency of updating asset inventory and asset management plan is important, whether or not you’re managing smaller utilities. Ross opined that once the original inventory has been made, things don’t change quickly. Unless you’re replacing some assets, in which case you know …
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In the previous post "How To Define Levels of Service with the Community", Ross shared their experience in New Zealand. He continued explaining the importance of determining the customer and technical levels of service levels. Ross explained: So when we first developed service levels, what …
