Risk of muncipal investments realized as public-private partnership

The article concerns selected aspects of municipality risk in investment activity realized as public private partnerships. Two aspects of partnership connected with risk were addressed. Firstly, it was emphasized that this form of cooperation is connected with transfer of risk from the municipality to a private entity. Secondly, it was pointed that in result of the municipality accession to the public-private partnership new areas of risk appear, so far unknown (without this type of cooperation) or assuming a different character. The proportions of municipal investment risk division between partners depend on the form of partnership. Once the private partner becomes more involved in various aspects of the whole investment project, various areas of risk are transferred to him by the public entity. Therefore, the transferred responsibility with the accompanying risk concerns design and construction works, acquiring sources of finances for the investment and its modernization, but also for providing services based on the infrastructure created. At the moment when such close cooperation is initiated and a private entity joins the sphere of public services, new risk appears in the municipality. It has a characteristic feature, i.e. it can be mostly avoided if all tendering procedures are carried out properly and ...

Selected issues of water supply risk management

The risk is an elementary category of safety of technical systems operation. The safety of water supply system (WSS) functioning should be examined interdisciplinary in the scope of drinking water health as well as quality and quantity of natural water resources. There are three basic safety barriers of water supply system: prevention, security and counteraction. These barriers make serial structure and reduce the risk associated with public water pipe. Compensation and reduction methodology of integrated risk in the safety-health-environment system has been presented. Based on this, the basic rules of critical management have been formulated to the effect of stocks and society preparation for the case of undesirable event occurrence which caused threat to life, restore, environment and infrastructure. ...