Activities (FY2018)

* YWBA: Yokohama Water Business Association

The signing ceremony along with the briefing took place in Cebu City, the Philippines, with regard to the survey contents including the large-scale facility building project to improve water สภาพแวดล้อม in Cebu, as part of the JICA grant aid project: area. the Preparatory survey for the septage management project for Metro Cebu Water District ' s การต้อนรับ The Governor of Cebu and the Director General of the Yokohama Environmental Planning Bureau, both attended the ceremony to witness the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) by JICA and Metro Cebu Water District.
The consortium including two YWBA member companies* are undertaking the relevant survey. The City of Yokohama will continue to contribute to sustainable development in Metro Cebu utilizing its technologies and know-how supporting YWBA members ' business การขยายตัว in Cebu.

* เป็น Ltd Yokohama Water Co., Ltd. Yachiyo Engineering Co

เดือนพฤศจิกายน The หัวหน้า executive การไปรับ of the YWBA was held in late executives. The City of Yokohama shared the activity reports and future plans with the YWBA หัวหน้า

The Asia Smart City Conference is an international การประชุม that brings together city leaders in Asia and representatives แบบ international organizations, academic institutions and เอกชน companies, aiming at establishing a knowledge hub for Smart Cities. การประชุม At the city leaders share their visions for growth as well as their current challenges and needs. They can also network and take part in cross-cutting discussions on urban development. The theme of this year ' s การประชุม was " Fostering a Marketplace for Co-innovation
การประชุม On the day before the the participants toured the Wastewater Treatment Plant in the northern district to view smart city development in Yokohama.

The City of Yokohama put up a booth at Viet Water 2018 which is the biggest water-related exhibition in Vietnam, and made a presentation in the technical seminar.
The booth featured posters and videos showcasing the initiatives of Yokohama ' s water and wastewater works including YWBA promotional activities together with YWBA member companies in there.
In the technical seminar, we made a presentation about international technical cooperation through Public Private Partnerships in Yokohama.

A YWBA member company attended the seminar held in Ho Chi Minch City, Vietnam on the theme of " making use of IT technology in the water supply network" เป็น based on the memorandum with a consortium of five Vietnamese waterworks organizations. The company gave a presentation about the products and exhibited at the seminar.
Since the memorandum will expire this year, the Yokohama Waterworks Bureau and the consortium of five Vietnamese waterworks organizations concluded a new memorandum to run for five years แบบเดือนพฤศจิกายน 2018
In the new memorandum, toward safe and sustainable waterworks business in Vietnam, Yokohama will accept Vietnamese trainees in ญี่ปุ่น and hold seminars in Vietnam. The city will introduce products and technologies of YWBA which contribute to improve water สภาพแวดล้อม in Vietnam and support YWBA member companies ' business การขยายตัว in Vietnam. This will ร่องรอย to strengthen ties with the YWBA.

ญี่ปุ่น As one of the biggest conferences organized by IWA, the IWA WWCE made its debut in with 9,815 visitors แบบ 98 countries and regions. In the event we introduced the initiatives of the Yokohama Waterworks Bureau, the Yokohama Environmental Planning Bureau and the YWBA through panel displays as well as presentations in the business forum.

In cooperation with ญี่ปุ่น International Cooperation Agency ( JICA ) and Yokohama Water Co., Ltd. the Yokohama Waterworks Bureau accepted seven waterworks engineers แบบ six ชาวแอฟริกา countries for training.

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countries. Each of the ชาวแอฟริกา trainees reported on the situations and issues faced in each of their countries and shared ข่าวสาร and exchanged opinions to provide the latest update on the waterworks situations in ชาวแอฟริกา Eight จำนวนบุคลากร members แบบ four YWBA member companies participated in the event.

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The trainees visited Kubota ' s Keiyo Plant to see the integrated อุตสาหกรรมการผลิต processes of ductile cast iron pipes: melting, casting, pressure testing and coating. When told some of the background to how top quality is maintained in the production by strictly testing ductile pipes at each กระบวนการ stage, the trainees were astonished to hear that despite all the rigorous testing, only about one pipe a year fails the tests, realizing in their shock just how good การทำแบบญี่ปุ่น engineering is. trainees. This tour also produced some robust opinion exchanges, serving as a great opportunity for YWBA member company employees to get to know the ชาวแอฟริกา

Experts แบบ the City of Yokohama visited Hanoi, Vietnam, to implement JICA Grassroots Technical Cooperation Project ( Special Frame for Local Economic Development): Project of Capacity Building on Management of Sewage Works in Hanoi ( Phase 2 ) They provided technical cooperation to improve the water สภาพแวดล้อม in Hanoi.
The Sewerage Technical Seminar was held while they were in Hanoi, and the presentations provided by five YWBA member companies*(1) drew a great attention แบบ the local stakeholders.
การขยายตัว They also paid a courtesy call on the Hanoi People ' s Committee Chairman together with six YWBA member companies*(2) as well as taking a site tour and holding a workshop in order to support member-companies for overseas business

*(1) JFE Kankyo Corporation, Pasco Corporation, Hinode, Ltd., Yasuda Engineering Co., Ltd. Yokohama Water Co., Ltd.
*(2) JFE Engineering Corporation, JFE Kankyo Corporation, PASCO Corporation, Hinode Ltd., Yasuda Engineering Co., Ltd. Yokohama Water Co., Ltd.

Amidst even the big international water events around the globe, the Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) is a top-notch business-oriented one that focuses on technologies for water supply and sanitation. countries. SIWW 2018 attracted some 24,000 visitors แบบ 110 The YWBA exhibited at the event together with two member companies, showcasing their technical prowess as well as publicizing the initiatives of the YWBA, the Yokohama Waterworks Bureau and the Yokohama Environmental Planning Bureau.

We provided lectures and facility tours in Yokohama for project members of our counterpart, Hanoi City Department of Construction (DOC), in the กระบวนการ of implementing JICA Grassroots Technical Cooperation Project ( Special Frame for Local Economic Development): Project of Capacity Building on Management of Sewage Works in Hanoi ( Phase 2 )
While DOC members were in Yokohama, we held " the Sewerage Technical Seminar" เป็น where four YWBA member companies* explained how their technical prowess and knowhow could conceivably contribute to efforts in improving the water สภาพแวดล้อม of Hanoi.

*เป็น Ltd JFE Engineering Corporation Ltd Pasco Corporation Yokohama Water Co Tsukishima Kikai Co

City officials แบบ Cagayan de Oro, the Philippines visited the industrial wastewater treatment facility in Fukuura, the southern part of the city and the Sewerage Center in northern district. That was a part of JICA ' s overseas business support program for small and medium-sized enterprises, which Hinode Sangyo Co., Ltd. was implementing.

We publicized the initiatives of the YWBA and the Yokohama Environmental Planning Bureau at the Smart City Best Practice Workshop, which is one of the technical cooperation programs: ADB Future Cities Programs, implemented by the Asian Development Bank.