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WATERTOKSafe water for a healthy nationEdition 40 | Your Friday News Flash | Friday 22 July 2016

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Inside this Edition

GM’s Remarks

Inspirational Quote

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Personal Mastery06

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Weather Update

HoniaraSun 24 July 2016Thunderstorm

HoniaraFri 22 July 2016Mostly Sunny

HoniaraSat 23 July 2016Showers

PMW & Training

Joke Corner & Watch this Space

Amazing Water Facts

Inspirational Quote

Our Values

Scada Setup

Our Mission

“To provide reliable and safe water supply and sewerage systems within our area of operations in Solomon Islands, while working in partnership with the community to plan, deliver and operate infrastructure in a manner that seeks to minimize the social and environmental impacts of our activities.”

Purposeful: Everything we do is aimed at delivering a better service.

Challenging: We strive for contin-uous improvements.

Customer Focused: We aim to excel the expectations of our customers.

Ethical: We are open and honest about performance and meet our commitments in a reasonable Manner.

One Team: We strive to work together as one team to achieve our corporate objectives

Hi Everyone

Our thoughts are with our colleague

Cathy Palmer in Noro whose husband

was very badly injured in a car acci-

dent this week.

We have had some successful pro-

vincial visits with the Hunter H2O

consultant looking at our various

facilities. I think the Strategic Plan is

an exciting time and will help us map

out the future for Solomon Water.

We also visited Gizo to see if we can

assist them with many problems they

have in managing their

water supply.

I am going to be away from Tuesday

for a little holiday and then attend-

ing the Pacific Water Association

conference in Tonga with Scravin

and Frank. It should be very inter-

esting and help us to get a better

understanding of how things work

in other countries in the pacific as

well as meet many of our suppliers

and colleagues from other nations.

I will be back mid to late August.

Debbie will be acting GM and

please give her your full

support and co-operation.

Lukim u

Ian

Smith and Pritchard configuring the Scada setup

H2O IT Consultant here for SCADA Setup

Our Values

Our Mission

This week has been a busy week for the IT Team as the commissioning of SCADA Remote Terminal Unit is fast approaching. SCADA acronym for Supervisor Control and Data Acquisition System is a technology to monitor and regulate water flow, track reser-voir levels and pipe pressure. HunterH2O IT consultant Mathew Pritchard was here this week to assist Telekom IT engineers and Solomon Water IT Team for the configuration of the SCADA server and client to prepare for the actual commissioning of the Remote Terminal Unit (TRU) onsite, a device to trans-mit data through to the main system. SW IT Coordinator, Smith Daffe said “we are expect-ing another consultant from HunterH2O next week for final analysis and approval of the

current set up before we engage a electrical contractor to do the final installation of the RTU onsite on our water system. After the completion of the set up, our team will ensure staff responsible is given client access to the SCADA monitoring and reporting.

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Amazing Water FactsPure Water (solely hydrogen and oxygen atoms) has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither acidic nor basic.

Performance management for all team leaders, supervisors and co-ordinators has commenced today.Speaking at the opening of the training today Joe Sanga, HR & Communications Manager said “today marks a milestone in the history of Solomon Water that a performance management system is being developed and will now be implemented”. “This is a critical link between Company strategies and individual performance of staff. With the system in place, all staff will be able to align their work with corporate goals of the business. At the end of an appraisal period, individuals will be able to see how they add value to Solomon Water. It is also easy to see what areas they have not been able to complete and the hurdles that block progress”. The young managers were encouraged to concentrate hard in order to fully

understand the system and help align their respective team’s objectives to their own. In this way the alignment will be complete and line of sight clear. This is a project fully endorsed by management and has the Board’s support. We are grateful to Augustine Waétara who is the external consultant helping us out with the system. We also appreciate the HR team, Leon-ard Meleibla and John Konofilia for the support service they provide to the workshop.

Performance Management Workshop Training begins today

Performance Management Training for SW Team Leaders, Coordinators and Supervisors

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Watch this SPACE!

JOKE CORNERA bank robber pulls out gun points it at the teller, and says, "Give me all the money or you're geography!" The puzzled teller replies, "Did you mean to say 'or you're history?'" The robber says, "Don't change the subject!"

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