A word from the Editor

Welcome to the January 2002 edition of Global Water Intelligence. Our main focus this month is on the Newly Independent States (NIS). High-level representatives from NIS water authorities and international private water companies met in Kiev last year as part of the OECD’s Environmental Action Programme for Central and Eastern Europe.

The overriding conclusion to emerge from the meeting was that legal and institutional weaknesses in the water sector were reducing the prospects for PSP. Of particular concern was the lack of a regulatory framework between water utilities and local governments. Our analysis of the market reveals that there are only two private sector projects of note – Vivendi’s concession in ...

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