Abstract
The Water & Waste Utilities of the Report & Database Ed 7 2006
Introduction
- The need for investment in the water and waste industry are escalating as
environmental directives multiply, especially in the USA and the EU
- Privatisation in the water sector continues, but a growing number of
concessions have being revoked by dissatisfied governments, encouraged by
activists
- The devolution of water and waste utilities from state ownership to
municipalities has continued worldwide, placing an enormous investment burden
on these local institutions
- In many countries, especially in the CIS, the EU accession states, and
countries in South America, governments are short of cash and are unable to
subsidise municipalities to improve their water and waste infrastructure
- Much of the investment has already taken place in the original EU
countries, but it is a problem in the EU accession countries, which now have
to meet the many environmental directives pouring out of Brussels
- This can only mean a continued need for PSP
- Foreign investors have been slow to invest in water and waste in Russia
but a new bred of infrastructural investor has arisen in Russia in the last
two years, investing in Vodokanals throughout the CIS
- The largest of these is a partnership between the electricity and gas
giants, RAO UESand Gazprom.
- Others are being formed by the oligarchs
The Report & Database
- This product consists of a report & database
- The hard copy report contains an introduction to the global water and
waste industry, profiles of the largest water companies in the world, and a
section for each of 184 countries in the world, outlining the water and waste
sector.
- The country sections contain water and waste statistics, an outline of the
infrastructure, details of the composition of the water and waste services
utility industry, descriptionsofthemajorutilities
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