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 environment in Cebu, as part of the JICA grant aid project: a pesquisa Preparatória para o projeto de administração de septage para Metro a área de serviço de Cebu Água Distrito. 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. A Cidade de Yokohama continuará contribuindo a desenvolvimento sustentável em Metro Cebu que utiliza suas tecnologias e experiência que apóiam a expansão de negócio de sócios de YWBA em Cebu.

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

The chief executive meeting of the YWBA was held in late November. The City of Yokohama shared the activity reports and future plans with the YWBA chief executives.

The Asia Smart City Conference is an international conference that brings together city leaders in Asia and representatives from international organizations, academic institutions and private companies, aiming at establishing a knowledge hub for Smart Cities. At the conference, 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. O tema da conferência deste ano estava Nutrindo uma Feira para Co-inovação."
On the day before the conference, 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.
A barraca caracterizada cartazes e showcasing de vídeos as iniciativas da água de Yokohama e wastewater trabalha inclusive YWBA atividades de promoção junto com YWBA sócio companhias lá.
In the technical seminar, we made a presentation about international technical cooperation through Public Private Partnerships in Yokohama.

Uma YWBA sócio companhia assistiu ao seminário contido Ho Chi Minch Cidade, Vietnã no tema de "fazer uso de ISTO tecnologia na "rede de provisão de água, baseado no memorando com um consórcio de cinco organizações de sistema hidráulico vietnamitas. 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 from November 2018.
In the new memorandum, toward safe and sustainable waterworks business in Vietnam, Yokohama will accept Vietnamese trainees in Japan and hold seminars in Vietnam. A cidade introduzirá produtos e tecnologias de YWBA que contribui para melhorar ambiente de água no Vietnã e apoio a expansão de negócio de YWBA sócio companhias no Vietnã. This will lead to strengthen ties with the YWBA.

As one of the biggest conferences organized by IWA, the IWA WWCE made its debut in Japan, with 9,815 visitors from 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 Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Yokohama Water Co., Ltd., the Yokohama Waterworks Bureau accepted seven waterworks engineers from six African countries for training.

[Inception report]
Each of the African trainees reported on the situations and issues faced in each of their countries and shared information and exchanged opinions to provide the latest update on the waterworks situations in African countries. Eight staff members from four YWBA member companies participated in the event.

[Facility tour]
Os aprendizes visitaram a Planta de Keiyo de Kubota para ver os processos industriais integrados de elenco flexível tubos férreos: 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 process 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 Japanese engineering is. This tour also produced some robust opinion exchanges, serving as a great opportunity for YWBA member company employees to get to know the African trainees.

Experts from 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 environment 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 from the local stakeholders.
Eles também pagaram uma chamada de cortesia no Presidente de Comitê das Pessoas de Hanói junto com seis YWBA sócio companhias * (2) como também levando uma excursão de local e segurando um seminário para apoiar sócio-companhias para expansão empresarial ultramarina.

*(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. SIWW 2018 attracted some 24,000 visitors from 110 countries. 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 process 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).
Enquanto os sócios de DOC estavam em Yokohama, nós seguramos "o Sistema de esgoto Seminário Técnico" onde quatro YWBA sócio companhias * explicou como a coragem técnica deles/delas e knowhow poderiam contribuir concebivelmente a esforços melhorando o ambiente de água de Hanói.

*Tsukishima Kikai Co., Ltd, Pasco Corporation, Yokohama Water Co., Ltd, JFE Engineering Corporation

City officials from 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. Isso era uma parte do programa de apoio de negócio ultramarino de JICA para empreendimentos pequenos e médio-de tamanho que Hinode Sangyo Cia., Ltd. estava implementando.

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.