WOTA Signs Agreement with Miyagi Prefecture to Strengthen 'Wide-Area Mutual Assistance Platform for Water Recycling Systems Among Municipalities'

WOTA Corporation (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director & CEO: Yosuke Maeda; hereinafter 'WOTA') has signed the 'Agreement on Wide-Area Mutual Assistance for Daily Water Equipment During Disasters' with Miyagi Prefecture.

This agreement is part of an initiative to promote the establishment of a wide-area mutual assistance platform based on prefectural units. It strengthens the system for securing domestic water during disasters through collaboration between the prefectures and JWAD (Japan Water Association for Disaster), which organizes and operates the platform.

<Overview of the Agreement>

The purpose of this agreement is to establish a mutual support system for domestic water equipment among prefectures to ensure sanitary conditions and water supply at evacuation centers during disasters.

The specific details of the collaboration are as follows:

- Agreement Name: Agreement on Wide-Area Mutual Assistance for Daily Water Equipment During Disasters - Purpose: To establish a mutual support system among municipalities to secure domestic water and sanitary conditions at evacuation centers during disasters. - Main Collaboration Details: - Provision of domestic water equipment (such as 'WOTA BOX', 'WOSH', etc.) from unaffected municipalities to affected municipalities during a disaster. - Rapid information sharing among stakeholders during a disaster (damage status, needs for domestic water equipment, schedules for installation, operation, and removal of equipment, etc.). - Consolidation and optimal distribution of equipment centered on prefectures. - Establishment of systems such as training and advance distributed deployment during peacetime. - Coordination support among municipalities through the JWAD secretariat.

<About the Inter-Municipal Wide-Area Mutual Assistance Platform>

The wide-area mutual assistance platform is a mechanism for mutual support among municipalities that enables the rapid delivery of domestic water equipment to disaster-stricken areas on a nationwide scale during a disaster, through a consolidation and deployment system with prefectures acting as hubs.

Equipment distributed and held across various municipalities is tracked and organized by prefecture during peacetime, and consolidated to the affected prefecture when a disaster strikes. By assessing water demand and making optimal allocations, the goal is to deliver necessary support 'within one week of the disaster outbreak'.