In-depth assessment of specific aspects
Focused Analyses
Specialized tools to assess specific aspects of water and sanitation service management, providing detailed analyses and targeted recommendations.
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To date, more than 140 focused analyses have been carried out, providing a better understanding of an operator's current situation in its organizational transformation efforts.
Non-revenue water losses
At AquaRating, we understand that focused analysis of water losses is an essential tool for strengthening operational management. This process makes it possible to identify, measure, and reduce both real losses (such as leaks or network deterioration) and apparent losses resulting from metering errors, fraud, or inefficient administrative processes.
Benefits
- Improve system efficiency
- Optimize operating costs
- Increase actual billing revenue
- Promote more responsible and sustainable use of water resources
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Corporate integrity
At AquaRating, we know that protection against corruption is fundamental to your company's security and sustainability. Our focused analysis identifies the processes, decisions, and critical areas where risks may arise at any hierarchical level, establishing controls, procedures, and monitoring mechanisms that make it possible to prevent, detect, and correct potential irregularities before they affect the organization.
Benefits
- Build a stronger, more reliable, and more resilient organization while minimizing legal, financial, and reputational risks
- Ensure that every action and decision is made with integrity and transparency
- Protect your company, strengthen management, and build trust among users and the community
Elements for the focused analysis
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Innovative culture
At AquaRating, we know that innovation does not happen by chance—it is built every day through culture, people, and the way an organization thinks and acts. This system seeks to understand the organization's internal reality in order to identify strengths, detect weaknesses, and define actions that drive change and continuous improvement through three key elements:
- Conceptual and methodological framework
- Diagnosis that captures staff perceptions at every level
- Analysis that turns those perceptions into comparable results
Benefits
- Character: values, attitudes, internal structure, business context, and the environment that drives or holds back innovation
- Execution: resources, processes, and results
Innovation management
At AquaRating, we understand that innovating is not only about creating something new, but about a way of thinking and acting that helps water and sanitation companies better fulfill their commitments to the community by adapting to the changes, challenges, and opportunities that arise every day.
Innovation combines three forces:
- Creativity: new ideas and solutions
- Experimentation: new practices and technologies to test their effectiveness
- Smart adaptation: the ability to adjust and improve solutions with a sustainable vision
Benefits
- Respond with agility to sector challenges
- Optimize resources and strengthen public trust
- Ensure a more efficient, resilient, and sustainable service
Elements for the focused analysis
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Digital transformation
At AquaRating, digital transformation is not the future—it is the present. That is why going digital does not simply mean using new tools; it means changing the way we work, make decisions, and serve better.
Digital transformation involves reviewing how processes, resources, and information are managed so they become more efficient, transparent, and sustainable, considering areas of responsibility, technologies, consolidation, integration, maintenance, and updates.
Benefits
- Improve service quality
- Optimize resources, reduce losses, and strengthen the relationship with users
- Enable smarter, more agile, and more resilient decision-making
Gender, diversity, and inclusion
For AquaRating, a more diverse and inclusive company is synonymous with strength, innovation, and humanity. That is why it is essential for organizations to assess how far they have progressed in incorporating equality and inclusion into the way they work, decide, and lead.
It measures the degree of institutionalization of the gender and diversity approach, identifying opportunities for improvement and training needs through policies, strategies, promotion, and professional development of talent.
Benefits
- Promote more balanced teams
- Foster fairer work environments and more inclusive decisions
- Strengthen internal trust and social commitment
| Practice lists | 3 |
| Individual practices | 49 |
| Indicators | 16 |
| Variables | 30 |
Positioning in the face of climate change
At AquaRating, we understand that climate change is a reality that is transforming the way we manage water and sanitation. Variations in temperature, rainfall, and extreme events are already affecting the availability, quality, and security of water resources, demanding new ways of planning, designing, and operating the systems that guarantee this essential service.
It recognizes the current and future impacts of climate change, encouraging organizations to review their methods, update their infrastructure, and strengthen their response capacity and resilience.
Benefits
- Anticipate risks
- Optimize resources
- Ensure service continuity and quality in changing climate scenarios
Elements for the focused analysis
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Business continuity
For AquaRating, ensuring service continuity is at the heart of management in water and sanitation companies, as it keeps the organization running in the face of any adverse situation, ensuring that water continues to arrive with quality, quantity, and timeliness, and that sanitation operates safely and sustainably.
It identifies risks, anticipates interruptions, and strengthens response capacity from capture, treatment, and distribution to collection, drainage, treatment, commercial management, and environmental protection, establishing realistic goals based on current and future risks.
Benefits
- Promote preventive management capable of minimizing impacts
- Protect public trust and strengthen operational resilience
- Ensure operational sustainability even in the face of crises, disasters, or failures
Objectives
Achieve an assessment focused on a specific aspect of management.
Identify actions and potential improvements.
Analyze processes and their ecosystem with greater precision in order to optimize management in every detail.
Facilitate benchmarking exercises on specific aspects and the factors that condition them.