Shanghai growth overshadows risks

China’s largest city needs $5bn of investment in its water by 2005. Seungho Lee looks at where it might come from.

Having sold a 50 per cent interest in its Pudong water company to Veolia last year, the city of Shanghai is now preparing the remaining three city water supply companies for private investment, in a bid to meet its ambitious investment targets for the water sector.

With a population of 16million, Shanghai is the largest city in China and the ...

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