Water utilities see no need to panic, but consumers seem determined to take precautions.
Several British water utilities have recently made provisions for foreign deals that have gone sour.
The only players are the French and the British water utilities and a handful of American firms.
Buy water utilities, companies that serve water utilities, and companies that desalinate water.
While sorting through arcane water rules out West, he realized water utilities were undervalued and started investing in 1980.
Veolia Environnement, a holding of Chung's Alger LargeCap Growth and MidCap Growth funds, consults for, builds and manages water utilities.
The Spanish company sells traffic-control systems, as well as programs to reduce energy usage in water utilities and weather-monitoring software.
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For example, one ETF may be composed of water utilities and the competitor will have infrastructure stocks as the top holdings.
Other cities, such as Indianapolis and Milwaukee, have reduced such taxes by privatizing things like airports or water utilities, but not Syracuse.
The French have been contracting out their water systems since the 19th century, and the British privatised their water utilities in 1989.
Sullivan's group is a nonprofit organization representing the nation's largest publicly owned water utilities, which provide drinking water to about 160 million people.
If Ofwat sticks to its preliminary findings announced in July, water utilities will be forced to reduce their bills between 2010 and 2015.
Separately comes a report that municipal bonds backed by water utilities may also be heading toward a crisis due to stress on water tables around the nation.
There are two types of water investments: water utilities, which provide the stuff, and water industrials, which service the utilities with engineering, construction, pumps, pipes and filters.
California won't allow public water utilities to use water containing MTBE with concentrations higher than 5 parts per billion, a standard cheered on by greenies and ethanol makers.
The ratings will cover eight broad categories: education, health care, water and waste water utilities, energy utilities, cities, counties and states, transportation, ports and airports, U.S. Treasuries and agency debt.
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The disappearance of fuel, especially petrol, followed an announcement on Tuesday by the Energy and Water Utilities Authority (Ewura) to reduce retail pump prices of petrol by 9.17 per cent.
John Sullivan of the Boston Water and Sewer Commission testified that since September 11 the nation's drinking water utilities have been on a heightened state of alert to protect against the potential disruption of water service and biological or chemical contamination of drinking water.
While municipal water utilities are required to provide public reports of test results, bottled-water makers are not. (On the other hand, well water, which is found in many rural areas, isn't regulated as water provided by towns and cities is.) So although you may fork over a pretty penny for bottled water, that doesn't mean it's any better than what's coming out of your faucet.
For water customers, utilities calculate the surcharge by applying a percentage increase to billed revenues.
The angling campaign group Fish Legal is bringing an appeal in a case involving three private water companies, Southern Water, Yorkshire Water and United Utilities.
The assumption is that the poor have limited or no access to goods as well as limited access to services like education, healthcare, clean water and basic utilities, and they only strive to survive, with much fewer social incentives compared to their wealthy counterparts.
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Summy represents 90% or so of the 140 municipalities, public utilities and water companies that have filed suit.
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.
Like other utilities, American Water Works enjoys a government-sanctioned monopoly in most of its markets.
Stuart Atkinson, regional water network manager for United Utilities, apologised for the disruption caused.
Water, sanitation and other utilities are usually absent, making the incredible overcrowding even harder to bear.
There are also listed utilities in the water and energy sectors that offer funds the kind of secure dividend-payers they seek.
Unlike other utilities, French water is already a model of private enterprise.
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