David Lloyd Owen - Beyond financing: utilities can make their limited funding go further

• From: Vol 10, Issue 12 (December 2009)
• Category: Analysis
• Region: None
• Related Companies: Agbar, Aguas Andinas, IFC, Ofwat, Sabesp, Thames Water and Yorkshire Water

There is one golden rule in financial publishing: just before your book goes to press, a wonderful new study comes out.

So, as I bade farewell to ‘Tapping Liquidity: Financing water & wastewater to 2029’ (Thomson Reuters) I downloaded the new IFC/McKinsey study ‘Charting Our Water Futures’.

Depending on the capital spending scenario used, a gap between anticipated expenditure and revenues of $1,049 billion to $2,297 billion between 2010 and 2029 was identified in my report. A survey of ...