MEIF Team

 The project was awarded to a consortium comprising three organisations: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the IOW (International Office for Water), the BIPE Administrations and Environment Sector.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is the consortium leader and coordinator for this project. PwC has substantial financial experience in structuring projects in the water sector for both private operators and local authorities. The firm has also a substantial experience in financing projects with outstanding transactions in the European water sector both for local authorities and private operators. The company is also in the heart of strategic thinking regarding water infrastructures financing at an international level.
Within MEIF, PwC will act as a leader for all aspects linked to financing strategies.

BIPE is an independent consulting firm specialized in forward-looking economic analysis and forecasts. The BIPE's environmental department works especially on water and waste economic issues for both public authorities and water producing and distributing companies. BIPE's core expertise includes: benchmarking in France and Europe, identification of water pricing factors, comparison of water management systems in Europe and their economic performances, proposal of a water pricing system that identifies key factors, analyses of industrial water uses and the calculation of the cost recovery between different water uses.
Within MEIF, BIPE will be responsible for the economic aspects and will lead the work package dealing with water pricing.

The different working areas of the International Office for Water (IOW) are the institutional development of water management, water management data, water day release training, water documentation and information. Three centres of competence intervene and have different missions. The National Training Centre for Water Professions provides training courses regarding the administration of water resources, the management of public services, drinking water supply and sewerage at a local level, process water and the decontamination of industrial effluents. The International Institute for Water Administration offered institutions and countries to work with them in order to build their own capacities for administrative organization and training. The aim is to ensure an integrated water management. The National Centre for Water – related Information and Documentation is in charge of the projects related to data collection, data management, and data spreading in the water area. The mission of data and information management of the Centre covers especially the National network on water related data and the National Water database.
The « Studies and international projects » team belongs to the National Centre for Water- related information and documentation and has already participated and even lead various projects regarding economy or public/private partnerships, in particular:

• The Aqualibrium project that established a state of the art regarding Public/Private Partnerships in the 15 European Union member states;
• The study « inventory of the water and sanitation network » that provides a physical and estimated inventory of the patrimony infrastructure in water and sanitation and to suggest a first evaluation of the needs in communities renewal.

For further information or any comments, please do not hesitate to contact our consortium at the following address : meif@fr.pwc.com.

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