BOTS AND TOTS

* At the beano to celebrate his company’s stock market debut, Suez Environnement CEO Jean-Louis Chaussade was bemoaning the lack of build operate-transfer projects in the water sector over the past two years.

Where has he been? Certainly not China or the Gulf. He might want to take a look at Egypt, Mexico and India in PPP Tracker this month (see p49).

* Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia, the TOT model (transfer-operate-transfer – it sounds better than ‘brownfield BOT’ for wastewater projects) looks set to dominate the next stage of privatisation. The National Water Company has ...

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