Demo Network #1 Municipalities Lower Danube Key challenges The Danube River is the second longest river of Europe, but our focus is on Lower basin, consisting mainly of 4 countries with very different cultural and economic backgrounds. The water sectors in Lower Danube river is public, meaning that all organizations in water sector (including several hundred of water utilities) are owned by public bodies as the local or regional councils. Their main challenge is to consider working together, as the current legislation and past activities do not support such common activities (including innovative technology implementations of the digital solutions). Being public bodies, the interaction with their market (mainly citizens) is very low and inconsistent. The services offered to the citizens are at the minimum, including only constant water delivery at certain quality, but not considering citizens as potential market partners. Support from Fiware4Water and digital water Digital water is a hot topic for all water utilities. Considering my understanding, for example in Romania, the digital services provided to contractors, market partners and citizens are at low quality, reflecting the low performance of the departments in the water organizations all over the market (not only the water utilities, but also river basin administrations, local governments, etc.). Introducing digital services like priority topic in water Ciprian Nanu BGD Demo network 1 leader Back to the list of Demo networks Back to content
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