2018年12月15日

What is the best way for municipal offices to handle the water supply?

Topic1: TED TALKS & the coming Golden Week

---TED TALK---
Q1
I know many of Hoosiers menbers have watched Ted talks. I have been wanting to ask you,this questions:What are your best Ted talk?
Please explain the detail of your favorite presentation briefly.

---The coming Golden Week---
The coming Golden Week could be 10 day consecutive holidays starting from 27 April to 6 May, since Emperor is scheduled to abdicate on 30 April 2019, and Crown Prince Naruhito will ascend the throne on 1 May.

I am planning now what I want and I could for the next Golden Week.
Q2
If you could get 10 days off from work, what do you want to do during this big golden week, the holidays which would never occur at least to me in near future?

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Topic 2:Privatizing the water supply
Title: What is the best way for municipal offices to handle the water supply

The amendment of the water supply law has been enacted by the Diet on 5 December.
Now municipal offices have choice of entrusting their operation to private-sector companies.
It seems there are more negative opinions on privatizing more than positive. Please let me hear your opinions!

Q1:
The price of water service would be very different, depending on the area you live in.
How much do you pay for the water supply a month?

Q2: What motivated the government to change into privatizing the water supply?

Q3: What are the merits and demerits of privatizing the management of water supply?

Q4:What is the best way for municipalities to provide water to citizens?

**Material**

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/12/08/editorials/privatizing-water-supply/#.XAzecdz7TtQ