Water and Waste Utilities of the World (7th Edition) Report & Database

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