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From 16/11/09 to 20/11/09, Bernard Barraqué (research director at the CNRS and teacher at the ENGREF-AgroParisTech) and Jean-Luc Trancart (teacher at the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech) organised a course on the sustainability of european water and sanitation services. This course took place during the European ATHENS[1] Week, a training programme created in 1997 to bring together a network of 23 European higher education institutions. This year, the ATHENS week proposed more than 100 courses, and was aimed at 3500 students from all Europe.Experts from seven European countries – United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy and France – gave at talk during the course co-organised by B. Barraqué and JL. Trancart. As operators – public or private – and academics, they shared with the students their experience and perception of the challenges rising for the water and sanitation services, regarding their sustainability.If the organisation of this European week was not directly part of the EAU&#38;3E research project, it tackled the same questions and discussions: debate on public vs private, local (municipal) vs more centralised systems, sector-based (unbundling) vs integrated-transversal services, etc. Thus it seemed pertinent to present on this blog what was said during the course.You will find on this page the programme of this course, the presentations of all the speakers (published here with their permission), and the papers written by the students for their evaluation at the end of the course.PROGRAMMEEuropean Water and Sanitation Services vs Sustainable DevelopmentPRESENTATIONS TO DOWNLOADMonday 16th of November:morning: Jean-Luc Trancart: Position of the European Union; Glossary and definitionsafternoon 1: Thomas Zabel: The provision of the water services in the UK: presentation and draft notesafternoon 2: Gaetane Suzenet:The long term sustainability of the UK water industryTuesday 17th of November:morning 1: Helmut Herdt: Städtische Werke Magdeburg GmbH morning 2: Jens Libbe: Sustainable Urban Water Infrastructure: Discussion in Germany afternoon 1: Thomas Van Waeyenberge: Private Sector Contributions to sustainable water and wastewater services &#38; Some thoughts on Belgiumafternoon 2: Henk Loijenga: Water governance in the NetherlandsWednesday 18th of November:morning 1: Alejandro Vega Blesa: Management experience of AGBAR Water: Part 1 and Part 2morning 2: David Sauri: Strategies for sustainable water management in the face of scarcity and drought: the case of BarcelonaThursday 19th of November:morning 1: Jean-Patrice Poirier: Veolia Water in Eastern Europemorning 2: Jean-Luc Trancart: Politique de l’eau et organisation des services en Francemorning 3: Bernard Barraqué: Presentation of the EAU&#38;3E research projectafternoon 1: Andrea Mangano: Water services in Italyafternoon 2: Antonio Massarutto: Water services and regulation in Italy; issues and way forwardOthers:Enquête réalisée en 2008 par la FP2E sur la comparaison des prix de l’eau et de l’assainissement dans l’Union EuropéenneThe situation of water and sanitation services in PortugalBernard Barraqué: Evolution of average French water prices and the bill’s compositionBernard Barraqué: The French Agences de l’eauSTUDENTS’ PAPERSGroup 1: Yuan GUAN, Maria-Eleni MITZITHRA, Ambroise PASCAL and Giulia SACCANI: Conflicts of use in ItalyGroup 2: François DUCLOZ, Marc LOTTEAU, Arnauld MARROU and Andres POCH: Effectiveness of urban wastewater treatment policies in selected countriesGroup 3: César BOURGEOIS, Jeanne GUILLEMINOT, Clara SHEER and Jan SYKORA: Decentralization of waste water systemsGroup 4: Mathieu MOSLONKA-LEFEBVRE, Lydie POINTUD, Alexandra SILVA and Xiaozhong WANG: Water and sanitation services in PortugalGroup 5: Laura BEL FRANQUESA, Esther BLANCO GARCIA, Jean-Rémi DUPRAT and Maëlle LEPOUTRE: Water Affordability in EuropeGroup 6: Anna COCHON, Sarah DOUET, Claire DELAMARE and Etienne JOSNIN: Which scale for a sustainable management of drinking water?Group 7: Mehdi AHMADI, Jean-Baptiste ANDRE, Manuel HARMSEN and Christophe SCHELLENS: Change driven design in water and sanitation systemsGroup 8: Hafsa BAKRI, Amir Abbas KARIMI, Pierre MACHER and Jing WANG: Potable Water Services in Morocco – China – Austria – Iran[1] Advanced Technology Higher Education Network, Socrates