Activities (FY2021)

* YWBA: Yokohama Water Business Association

Murata Keisokuki Co., Ltd. a YWBA member company, received approval แบบ JICA ' s SDGs business support program for small and medium-sized enterprises. The title of the project is " SDGs Business Verification Survey with the Private Sector for Da Nang Industrial Wastewater Management Project in Vietnam."
The project will provide real-time monitoring การต้อนรับ utilizing the environmental monitoring system developed by Murata, which will ร่องรอย to the improvement of industrial wastewater management.
Murata exhibited together with the City of Yokohama at Vietwater 2019 which is an annual water-related event held in Vietnam. On top of that, the company joined the Da Nang Urban Development Forum, where it made presentations on its technology that can provide solutions to urban issues in Da Nang. Murata is promoting overseas การขยายตัว in cooperation with other Yokohama-based companies.

years. Based on a friendly การแลกเปลี่ยน agreement between cities of Yokohama and Shanghai, The Yokohama Waterworks Bureau (YWWB) and Shanghai Water Authority (SWA) have developed their partnership over the course of nearly 40 In most years, mutual visits or training programs in Yokohama have been conducted on a yearly basis. However, due to COVID-19 pandemic, since 2020 the YWWB and SWA held online seminars instead. At the seminar in 2021 the participants had an active discussion after the presentations on issues and initiatives related to water purification systems in both Yokohama and Shanghai. The seminar was open to member companies, and eight participants แบบ seven companies joined as observers.

WASA-F and the YWWB signed an MOU on technical การแลกเปลี่ยน in October 2019 on the การขอร้อง of WASA-F, which had evaluated the activities of YWWB through a previous Yokohama Water Company project. Exchange between the two local governments leads to the promotion of activities by YWBA member companies.
In เดือนกันยายน 2021 the YWWB hosted an online seminar, inviting not only WASA-F but also Water and Sanitation Agency Lahore (WASA-L), which is the capital of Punjab จังหวัด where WASA-F is located. The participants had a discussion on four themes: design drawing management, usage fees/customer management, safe water supply plans, and water demand forecasts.
Five people แบบ five YWBA member companies observed the seminar. Also, three companies made presentations to a total of twenty-seven executives แบบ WASA-F and WASA-L. Pakistani เอกชน companies also participated in the seminar and joined the discussion.

The YWWB has been accepting trainees แบบแอฟริกา for the past several years, a program that was inspired by the Fourth Tokyo International Conference on ชาวแอฟริกา Development held in Yokohama in May 2008 Since 2009 the YWWB has hosted training courses for waterworks engineers แบบชาวแอฟริกา countries every year, in cooperation with JICA and Yokohama Water Co., Ltd. The YWWB has accepted 133 waterworks engineers แบบ 30 ชาวแอฟริกา countries by the FY 2019
The YWWB has provided online training courses consisting of video material and a webinar including Q&A sessions for the trainees since 2020
In 2021 the online training course was held in เดือนกันยายน to October. During the course, promotional videos of two YWBA member companies introducing การทำแบบญี่ปุ่น technology were shown. In addition to the existing contents, a new online live stream of water purification plants was also shown.

The YWWB has participated in the JICA Technical Cooperation Project "Project of Capacity Building on Non-Revenue Water Prevention Measures in Lilongwe City, Republic of Malawi" since June 2019
The YWWB has dispatched a long-term expert ( Chief Advisor ) to the Lilongwe Water Board (LWB) and strived to improve water supply business in Malawi as " Team Yokohama," in collaboration with Kyowa Engineering Consultants Co., Ltd. and Yokohama Water Co., Ltd. members of the YWBA.
In FY 2021 the YWWB held a technical training course online. It was streamed for four YWBA member companies to observe.
Additionally, the YWWB held a business matching session where two member companies presented their business, technologies, and services to the LWB.

The YWWB gave a lecture on non-revenue water prevention measures to the Republic of เซาท์แอฟริกา executives, in cooperation with Yokohama Water Co., Ltd.
แอฟริกา This lecture was held for DWS, IBTC, SALGA, and the จำนวนบุคลากร of waterworks สำนักงานบริการข้อมูล in the Republic of เซาท์
Also, this training course was held online by streaming video material and holding a webinar including Q&A sessions for the trainees, and speakers provided a valuable opportunity for เซาท์ชาวแอฟริกา members to participate in important lectures virtually.
During the training course, promotional videos of three YWBA member companies were streamed.