Until Ofwat stopped it, Kelda, the Yorkshire water business, hoped to hive off its water assets into a consumer-owned mutual.
On November 4, however, RWE announced it would divest its water assets and focus on electricity and gas markets in Europe.
SA. Other Asian players also have shown interest in European water assets.
"In many parts of the country, water is absolutely more valuable than gold, " says fish habitat and water consultant Shannon Skelton, who runs CFI Global Fisheries Management, a company that helps landowners manage their water assets.
He says only General Electric would be large enough to swallow American Water Works whole, but companies like GE, ITT Industries and 3M have not shown previous interest in water utility assets, preferring to stick to water industrial assets--e.g. filtration, desalination and instrumentation markets.
The disposition of water utility assets in the U.S. is absolutely not an indication that this is a bad business that should be avoided by investors.
He had a house and a rental condominium, both seriously under water, and no other appreciable assets.
The British public have not done well in recent years from privatisation of what we thought were national assets, energy or water.
Smaller rural agencies can also access the data to maintain assets in the field like water lines, fire hydrants, trails, vegetation, wildfire mitigation areas, and more.
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Number two, we're getting assets in to pump as much water out as possible.
As well as poor road and rail links, an unreliable water supply and nationalist opposition to the sale of state assets to foreigners, at the top of most people's lists is the lack of a legal system capable of passing good laws and enforcing them.
Another way in which regulators have tried to keep banks' heads above water is to force them to match a proportion of their risky assets (ie, loans) with capital, in the form of equity or retained earnings.
Every WMD incident will require a multi-agency response, and there will be a session on the capabilities and capacities in water, food, and agriculture sectors, which will focus on the assets available at the federal, state, and local levels.
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We obviously have response assets ready for deployment should we receive reports of pollution in the water.
Just last month the company bid to increase its stake in deep water through the purchase of several fields from a BP (BP) eager to shed assets, a deal that Stone hopes will close next month.
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