The project is funded by the European Union Interreg, Heritage Lottery Fund and Veolia Environmental Trust.
Grameen Danone Foods, a yogurt-maker, and Grameen-Veolia, a water company, are joint ventures with French giants.
Veolia Equipment, which has facilities in Louisiana, has offered to make its water management resources available.
The winner of this year's competition, sponsored by French company Veolia Environnement, will be announced on 21 October.
Developers Veolia have stopped moving forward with the plans until Secretary of State Eric Pickles makes a decision.
Mr Borloo has denied that he wants to become Veolia's chief executive, but has admitted meeting board members.
ECONOMIST: What a row over a water company says about French capitalism
Veolia Environmental Services is appealing against the collection times specified by Lewes council.
As political pressure grew, Mr Proglio decided to forgo his pay from Veolia.
Veolia Environnement, a holding of Chung's Alger LargeCap Growth and MidCap Growth funds, consults for, builds and manages water utilities.
The RSPB secured funds for the project at Langstone Harbour from the European Union Interreg, Heritage Lottery Fund and Veolia Environmental Trust.
However, Mike Pocock, water resources manager at Veolia Water Central, struck a note of caution and urged customers to continue to use water wisely.
Smith (water heaters), Badger Meter (water meters), Kohler (faucets and toilets), Siemens (water filtration), Veolia (sewage filtration) and Pentair (flow management and filtration).
Veolia is required to sample water from the surrounding area regularly.
Mr Proglio's continuing sway over Veolia is merely an extreme example.
ECONOMIST: What a row over a water company says about French capitalism
Even airlines are getting in on the act, with Franco-Dutch carrier Air France-KLM currently in talks with Veolia Environnement's transport subsidiary over a possible joint venture in rail.
Veolia began negotiating with Chinese bureaucrats in the early 1990s, winning its first contract in 1997, a 20-year deal to operate water production in the eastern Chinese city of Tianjin.
The owner, Veolia Environnement, one of the giants of the industry, has built an underground wall of similarly waterproof clay around the site which extends deep enough to reach the natural barrier below.
Veolia, a private train-operator, pulled out of bidding for a contract in Stuttgart in February, complaining that DB, which was also in the running, would not provide the information needed to prepare its bid.
While Viridor started building its energy-from-waste plant in Trident Park in Cardiff last March, Veolia's planning application for a site near the Llanwern steelworks, close to Newport, was turned down last July, and its appeal will be heard next July.
Even airlines are getting in on the act, with Franco-Dutch carrier Air France-KLM (other-otc: AFLYY - news - people ) currently in talks with Veolia Environnement (nyse: VE - news - people )'s transport subsidiary over a possible joint venture in rail.
Veolia Environmental Services was the other firm fighting to run the incinerator, and whose spokesperson said it believed it was "sympathetic with the local environment and represented a unique opportunity to use the residual waste to provide a secure source of sustainable energy and heat to the neighbouring Tata Steel steelworks - a major source of employment in the area".
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