Introduction to water utility regulation

For the first time ever, in February 2015 REKK and ERRA organised a one-week water utility training course. The training was aimed at both new and practicing water utility regulators. Following the tradition of REKK/ERRA common courses, presentations were mixed with case studies and group assignments. 26 participants from 13 countries...

World Bank - IAWD - GIZ 2014 Danube Water Conference

At the World Bank - IAWD - GIZ 2014 Danube Water Conference on 9 May 2014 Mr. Péter Kaderják, the director of REKK gave the introductory presentation before the panel discussion of the Hungarian water utility sector reform. Mr. Kaderják reviewed the problems that triggered the reform in the late 2000's, described the reform initiative of...

Developing and applying a water utility tariff modell for Hajduviz, a Hungarian water utility serving 64 municipalities.

With the help of the model we assisted the utility in distributing the central costs of the company among municipalities, devising cost recovering tariffs, experimenting with various tariff designs (combinations of fixed and variable tariffs) and assessing the impacts of changes in the service area.&nbs...

Linking water management to economic growth

REKK provided Hungary specific policy advice and analysis to the multi-country project of the Regional Environmental Centre, culminating in a study prepared to the European Commission on the possibility of a water policy that also contributes to economic recovery...

Natural Water Retention Measures

It is one of our ongoing projects Aqua.Rekk contributes to. Natural Water Retention Measures (NWRM) are measures that aim to safeguard and enhance the water storage potential of landscape, soils and aquifers, by restoring ecosystems, natural features and characteristics of water courses, and by using natural processes. They are green infrastructure...

EPI-WATER

Evaluating Economic Policy Instruments for Sustainable Water Management in Europe 2011-2013 A sustainable management of water resources has a potential to tackle water-related natural hazard and climate risks, and at the same time alleviate communities from poverty. In this context, Economic Policy Instruments (EPIs) can help...

GHG emission pathways of wastewater management

In this project we analysed the current and forecasted future emissions of the wastewater sector of Hungary based on trends of wastewater collection and treatment, as well as the projected generation and utilisation of biogas from sewage sludge. Our research was part of a larger REKK project on GHG emission scenarios of the Hungarian econom...

Danube - waterway development CBA

How to step forward? By 2006, the Hungarian-Slovak intergovernmental negotiations, aimed at implementing the 1997 ruling of the International Court of Justice on the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project, appeared to reach a stalemate. As a last resort, on 5 October 2006 the parties agreed to prepare a Mutual Environmental Study. Over the course...

WFD implementation in Hungary

In the preparation phase of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Hungary Aqua.REKK contributed to the work of the Economics Task Group that developed the national WBMP. In a multidisciplinary team of experts our role was the development and test of a methodology and a related decision-support system to develop a cost-effective programme of measures  in...

Benchmarking Club of Mavíz

The Benchmarking Club of the Hungarian Waterworks Association was founded in 2007. While water and wastewater service providers had for some time already been planning to start process benchmarking in Hungary, the impetus came after the IBNET benchmarking survey was successfully completed and participating companies could start to compare their performance to that of their peers. The feedback...

REC Priority Environmental Investment Project in CEE

Within this project we assessed the financial and operational reform options of water and wastewater utilities in the Western Balkan (Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania). In collaboration with the experts of REC a manual of reform options as well as workshop presentations were delivered. The manual can be downloaded from the following link:  http:/...