IN BRIEF – EUROPE

* Saur’s Stereau division has won a €14 million contract to build a treatment unit for the sludge and effluent produced by the drinking water plant at Méry-sur-Oise, which supplies 173,000m<sup>3</sup>/d of water to 800,000 inhabitants north of Paris.

The contract is the first to be signed between Saur and the Syndicat des Eaux d’Ile-de-France (SEDIF), one of Europe’s largest water utilities.

* Severn Trent is to cut 600 jobs over the next five years. The company blamed rising energy prices and leakage costs for poor first-half profits, and announced that PBIT for the water division in 2005-2006 ...

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