On November 21 - 23, the closing workshop of the fourth cycle of the Utility Benchmarking Program in the Ukrainian Benchmarking Hub took place in Lviv with the support of the Danube Water Program. The event was attended by 65 participants, i.e. representatives of 15 enterprises of the water supply and sewerage sector of Ukraine, the International Association of Water Supply Companies in the Danube River Catchment Area (IAWD, Austria), European Benchmarking Cooperation (EBC, the Netherlands), Ministry of Regional Development, Building and Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine, Bavarian Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection (Federal State of Bavaria), Chamber of Commerce “Polish Waterworks” (Izba Gospodarcza "Wodociągi Polskie", Poland), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, WWTP of Nuremberg, specialists from Bulgaria, representatives of famous companies Huber and Siemens and others.

During the seminar the financial, economic and technical state of the participating enterprises was considered and each water utility recevied an individual report on performance indicators for water supply and sewage management.

One session of the seminar dealt with "International experience: Exchanging of experience of German experts with Ukrainian utilities representatives in order to find the best solutions for performance improvement according to benchmarking results" and enabled knowledge axchange between german and ukrainian utilities.