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Singapore on 1- 3 July 2009

Saimone Helu

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Location – South West Pacific and to the

East of FijiLand Area – about 700m2 made up of 

about 69 small scattered islands.There are four (4) main group of islands

- Tongatapu where the capital is at;

- Vava’u- ‘Eua and Ha’apai

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Established in 1966 as quasi-

government bodyTWB Act – 92 of 1972

TWB Act of 2000Public Enterprises Act of 2002

Propose amendments to some of the2002 Act are under consideration

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Board of Directors composition and

their rolesBoard quorum

 Accountable to the Minister of Finance

More commercial like than the 1972 Act

CEO on contract and set guidelinesto work on1/7/2009Tonga Water Board

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Board of Directors composition and

their roleTerm of Directors

 Accountable to the Minister of PublicEnterprises

More of commercial• cost recovery

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 Act of 1995

- Village Water Schemes- Committees, chair by the Village Town

Officer- Town Officer is elected every year and

the committee members has no set term

and mainly selected by the Town Officer- Operation and maintenance are not well

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Draft Integrated Water Resources

Management (IWRM) under the Ministryof Lands, Survey, Natural Resources and

Environment

- Main function is control over the use of 

resources

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Under review by Asian Development

Bank to be more commercialised andbusiness focus

Emanated from Ministerial meeting earlythis year between Water Ministers of Fiji,

Tonga and Samoa.

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Water policies is being changed from

time to time as need arises especiallyfor:

• Betterment of the operations eg: performance

assessment; staff leave etc.

• To meet the strategic development goal

• Political demand•  Very little policy is being done as a result of 

direct demand from public

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