Yet billions of people lack basic water services, and millions die each year from water-related diseases.
In December, it said it will acquire a 20% stake in Maynilad Water Services Inc.
In addition, official departments like Water Services and the Post Office could be privatized too.
Earlier this year Folkestone and Dover Water Services said it planned to apply for "water scarcity status".
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But 41 homes ended up withdrawing, said Sonia Harvat, spokeswoman for Metro Water Services, the city's water utility.
It can end up in artificial water supply systems, including air conditioning systems, water services and cooling towers.
The private sector's impact on urban water services can thus be dramatic.
Severn Trent claims that WPD, the winner of the four-month takeover battle, plans to contract out some of Hyder's water services to United Utilities.
Although many infrastructure projects are being placed in private hands, the government is pushing through reform bills designed to safeguard transport, telecoms and water services.
Kelda Water Services and its sister company Yorkshire Water are supplying the council with the biogas, which is produced at their sewage treatment works in Sheffield.
The Consumer Council for Water South West (CCWater South West) said the rebate was good for customer relations, but consumers were still paying a "disproportionate" price for water services.
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The Lopezes control and run Meralco, the electricity distribution monopoly on Luzon island (other interests: the ABS-CBN broadcasting network, the country's largest, as well as toll expressways and water services).
They asked Gordon Brown, the prime minister, to pay for winter-fuel grants for Northern Ireland's pensioners, and for water services so that they can postpone the introduction of water rates.
The potentially massive capital expenditures needed to update and maintain the world's water infrastructures are likely to encourage cash-strapped municipalities all over the planet to privatize and consolidate their water services.
Habitat, 62% of the urban population in Sub-Saharan Africa lives in slums, which it describes as being typically characterized by deplorable living conditions, a feeling of insecurity and inadequate infrastructure for basic energy, sanitation and water services.
The health and safety of individuals is priority first and foremost, followed by the recovery of critical infrastructure services (power, water, hospital services, transportation etc.).
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The reservoir production group offers well services, completions and artificial lift technologies, subsea, water and carbon services activities.
Systems of banking, energy, transportation, food production and delivery, water, emergency services, and even cyberspace would collapse.
In the Philippines, the city of Manila recently awarded contracts to run the city's water and sewerage services to two private consortia.
The firm, which provides water and wastewater services across Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, also plans to further tackle leakage.
Its main business provides water and sewerage services to 2.6 million people in Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and parts of North Yorkshire.
Mr Rumsfeld insisted that Mr Garner and his team were already at work, and that water and electricity services were being restored in southern Iraqi towns.
These core uses (what they refer to as direct water and steam services in the commercial, residential, industrial and power sectors) eat up 12.3 quadrillion BTU per year.
Water For People believes this inability to move the needle towards a world where everyone actually has water and sanitation services requires a fundamental rethink in sector practice.
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The board of Welsh Water has full and final responsibility for providing safe and reliable water and sewerage services, and this will not change nor be compromised in any way.
Your work with the Haitian government, our military, the U.N. and NGOs helped feed nearly 3 million Haitians, and provide water and sanitation services to much of the affected population.
The workshop will be held at the Cultural Center Bernardino Rivadavia in Rosario, Argentina, as part of the activities of the Ministry of Water, Public Services and Environment (MWSE) and Habitat Secretariat in the framework of World Habitat Day.
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Thanks to the generosity of the British and American people, our nations led a significant humanitarian response that helped save hundreds of thousands of lives in Somalia alone, and reached millions of people across the region with food, health care, and water and sanitation services.
It wants to know how much you make in salary and dividends, the time you leave for work, the number of bedrooms in your house and whether there is a toilet, how much you pay in electricity bills and for water and sewer services, whom you work for, whether you have trouble walking or lifting things and on and on.
The PHO fund invests in companies that provide potable water, the treatment of water, and the technology and services that are directly related to water consumption.
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