Selling off Spain’s municipal crown jewels
- From: Vol 12, Issue 12 (December 2011)
- Category: General
- Region: Europe
- Country: Spain
- Related Companies: AEOPAS, Agbar, EMASA and Suez Environment
The formation of a new government in Madrid could catalyse a new wave of water privatisation in the country. Richard Weyndling investigates.
Spain’s private sector water operators are convinced that circumstances have gifted them a one-off opportunity to expand their business into some of Spain’s largest metropolitan areas, which have hitherto been the impregnable domain of long-established public sector water companies.
On the one hand, with public finances shattered by the collapse of Spain’s construction boom and savage cuts ...
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