Sicily battles against the odds

• From: Vol 6, Issue 4 (April 2005)
• Category: General
• Region: Europe
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With the exception of Veolia, private water companies have steered clear of Sicily. Nadia Spaccarotella examines what has been keeping them away.

The much-delayed reform of the Italian water sector continues to confound expectations and frustrate potential investors more than 10 years after legislation introducing the new system, the so-called Galli Law, was passed. Repeated attempts to assign water and wastewater management services in the southern Italian island of Sicily, home to a population of more than five million, have so far ...