Performance Indicators: There’s More to it Than Just Capacity Building
Prior to the expert panel discussions, I did not fully appreciate the complexity and diversity of water performance indicators for benchmarking and evaluation. While it is commonly recognized that what you do not measure cannot be managed, selecting what you measure and how you measure can often be a very difficult task to accomplish. The [...]
Alexander Danilenko is Like a Torpedo Speeding Through the Water Sector Towards your Comfortable Preconcieved Notions
Mention the words “human rights” at a conference dedicated to water and sanitation and utility managers, and bankers and development financiers begin to shift uncomfortably in their seats. Begin a sentence with “costs and revenues,” and many aid-focused NGO workers line up for a turn at the post-presentation Q&A mic to point out the tragedies [...]
Watershed Moment: One Water Commissioner’s Plan to Revolutionize Urban Water Management and Rewrite the Future of America’s Cities
Howard Neukrug is a busy man. The spectacled and barrel chested visionary behind Philadelphia’s “Green City, Clean Waters” plan presides over a massive network of 2,000 employees, three water purification plants, three sewage sanitation plants, and a sprawling and ancient collection of over 3,000 miles of water of sewer line. Neukrug is personally responsible for [...]
