Message
Utilizing our achievements, reliability, and technical capabilities
As a new agent responding flexibly and promptly to the needs of the times
Becoming a new player to support the development of water and wastewater utilities and to create rich water environment in Kitakyushu including surrounding area and abroad.
Kitakyushu Water Service Co., Ltd. was established in 2015 as a public-private partnership (PPP) jointly funded by the City of Kitakyushu, which has over a century of history in water and wastewater management and private enterprises. Thanks to your support, we have successfully marked our 10th anniversary.
As a company that combines public sector reliability with private sector management expertise, 24/7, 365 days a year, we are engaged in the sustainable operation of water and wastewater systems, the most vital infrastructure supporting human life and daily living. We achieve this through the safe, secure, and dependable management of water and wastewater treatment facilities.
Today, domestic water and wastewater utilities face unprecedented challenges that threaten their future sustainability, including a declining population, aging infrastructure, increasingly severe natural disasters, and a critical shortage of engineers. We are required to confront these issues and respond with flexibility and agility.
At this turning point, we have newly launched from fiscal year 2025 as a "Policy Alignment Organization" (Seisaku Renkei Dantai), a partner playing an integral role in Kitakyushu’s municipal policies. In this capacity, we will take on a more central role in public-private partnerships.
Ｗe will strive to support the strengthening of management foundations and to ensure the transfer of High-Level Technology and Know-How in the water and wastewater sector. Furthermore, We will leverage the knowledge we have cultivated in Kitakyushu to extend our regional support to water and wastewater utilities across northern Fukuoka Prefecture.
In abroad, based on the long-standing track record of international technical cooperation that Kitakyushu City has cultivated, exemplified by the "Miracle in Phnom Penh," we will support the promotion of overseas water businesses and take on the challenge of solving global water problems.
We will continue to work together as a company to move forward to the next stage, contributing to the realization of a sustainable society through water and wastewater management both domestically and internationally.
President
Kaneo Akitoshi
Management Vision
Corporate philosophy
Become a new agent that supports the development of water and sewer business operators and the creation of rich water environments in the city of Kitakyushu and at home and abroad.
Responsibilities to be fulfilled
Support the strengthening of the management base of Water and Sewer Bureau, City of Kitakyushu.
We will contribute to ensuring the sustainability and further development of water and sewer business for the City of Kitakyushu, which is facing to the challenges on the maintenance age, as an affiliated organization for the City of Kitakyushu.
Regional support for the water and sewer business operators in northern Fukuoka prefecture.
We will promote regional cooperation through diverse means together with Water and Sewer Bureau, City of Kitakyushu and provide regional support for water and sewer business operators in northern Fukuoka prefecture.
Promote overseas water business in the city of Kitakyusyu
We will promote overseas waterbusiness in the city of Kitakyusyu by taking advantage of the flexibility and promptness of management as a corporation.
Management Policy
- Ensure public responsibility
- We will contribute to the supply of safe and reliable water to improve the public health, and the conservation of water quality in public water area in cooperation with Water and Sewer Bureau, City of Kitakyushu, as a main maintenance operator of essential infrastructure.
- Ensure independent management
- We will maintain independent and sound management as a corporation.
- Conveying and developing water and sewer technology
- We will convert and further develop water and sewer technology as a bearer in the age of maintenance, and contribute to maintaining and developing the water and sewer technological capabilities of the entire country.
- Flexible and prompt management system
- We will build a management system that can respond flexibly and promptly to diversified social demands and business needs as well as changes in the management system.
- Focus on communication among water and sewer business operators
- We will actively listen to the voices of water and sewer business operators in the northernFukuoka prefecture and abroad, and provide various services suited to the specific management environment of each business entity.
Overseas project
Overseas Water Business Projects
We are forming official development assistance (ODA) projects and carrying out the projects mainly in Southeast Asian countries, based on the good intercity relations, human networks, and the experience of international technology cooperation have been developed individual overseas water businesses as Water and Sewer Bureau, City of Kitakyushu.
We will continue to contribute to the improvement on environmental sanitation and the achievement of SDGs in water and sewer expansion projects, particularly in Cambodia and Vietnam, through grant and loan assistance.
International Cooperation Projects
We cooperate with the Water and Sewer Bureau of Kitakyushu, the Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA) Kyushu, and the Kitakyushu International Techno-cooperative Association (KITA). We receive overseas trainees and dispatch experts to provide technical assistance.
Specifically, we have dispatched experts as instructors for the JICA’s Thematic Training Courses, as well as specialists for the JICA Partnership Program and other programs to contribute to the improvement of water environment in developing countries.
