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ABSTRACT: The organisation of water services was thoroughly reshaped in Lithuania after the country regained her independence in 1990. The responsibility for water supply and sewerage transferred from the state to municipalities.
In Finland municipalities are also responsible for water and wastewater services, but the state has never had any significant role. The practice of producing these services is quite different in the two countries. In Lithuania municipal companies operate water and wastewater systems with their own staff, while in Finland municipal utilities commonly outsource most of the work and the services on 1-3 year contracts, and perform only key operations with their own staff.
This is one of the reasons why the number of people employed directly by Finnish water utilities is substantially lower than that of their Lithuanian counterparts.
The full report can be found at: http://www.ewaonline.de/journal/2004_05.pdf
About the EWA
The European Water Association (EWA) is an independent non-governmental and non-profit making organisation dealing with the management and improvement of the water environment. It was founded on 22 June 1981 as the European Water Pollution Control Association. The scope of the Association was enlarged in 1999 with the change of name to the European Water Association.
It is one of the major professional associations in Europe that covers the whole water sector, wastewater as well as drinking water and water related waste. With member associations from nearly all European countries EWA consists of most European Union Member States, including all countries from Central and Eastern Europe which joined the European Union on 1 May 2004. Other European countries represented within the EWA are Croatia, Romania, Ukraine, Serbia and Montenegro, Norway, and Switzerland.
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