Suez

411 articles about "Suez"

PEOPLE/TECHNOLOGY Vol 4, Issue 1 (January 2003)

Australia: Suez appointed Russell Cooper as head of its local services division.

Which side of the napkin? Vol 3, Issue 12 (December 2002)

The slowing of the rate of expansion of the international private water sector is primarily due to the demand side, but the supply side has also faltered.

Bear market ravages water industry Vol 3, Issue 10 (October 2002)

September concluded one of the worst quarters in the last 50 years. Ending on a particularly sour note, several major blue-chip companies issued profit warnings that sent a shockwave through US markets.

Egypt gripped by wave of pessimism Vol 3, Issue 9 (September 2002)

The Egyptian government’s ambitious plans to open up new areas of the country to its rapidly expanding population are meeting with mixed success. A contract in the Suez Special Economic Zone (SEZ) involving Canadian firm SNC Lavalin has been suspended amid fears of far lower than predicted water demand. Meanwhile, plans to develop an independent water and power project (IWPP) in Sinai appear to have been put on hold.

South Africa’s new water strategy Vol 3, Issue 9 (September 2002)

The South African government has finally set out its plans for the water sector over the next decade and beyond. Much of the theory of the government’s strategy was set out in the 1998 National Water Act but it has taken four years to put the meat on the bones. Although the publication of the National Water Resource Strategy (NWRS) explains the means by which the nation’s water can most effectively be used, it does little to settle the debate over public versus private control of the water sector.

Gelsenwasser on the block Vol 3, Issue 8 (August 2002)

Companies seeking a position in the German water industry are likely to have rubbed their eyes in surprise when Gelsenwasser, Germany’s largest water supplier, appeared on a ‘must-divest’ list for energy conglomerate Eon last month.

Messier restrained by French president Vol 3, Issue 5 (May 2002)

A controversial project to reduce the Vivendi group’s stake of 63% in Vivendi Environnement (VE) to below 50% has been abandoned by the group’s chairman Jean-Marie Messier following intense pressure from the French president, Jacques Chirac, and directors of Vivendi Universal.

Ondeo and Vivendi in command in Morocco Vol 3, Issue 4 (April 2002)

Most concessions in Morocco have linked water and wastewater services to power provision. Such a policy has provided a host of opportunities for Suez and Vivendi Environnement (VE) because of the disparate nature of their businesses. The two French companies are now firmly established in the North African country. Government water policy in the past has lacked an overall strategy but now seems to centre upon private sector participation in the main cities, and a number of major contracts have been offered over the past few years.

Suez to help with Volga river project Vol 3, Issue 3 (March 2002)

CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF SUEZ GÉRARD MESTRALLET, and Mikhail Gorbachev, president of Green Cross International (GCI) have signed a partnership agreement under which Suez will contribute its technical and financial support to a Volga river basin project carried out by GCI and UNESCO.

A word from the Editor Vol 3, Issue 2 (February 2002)

Welcome to February’s GWI. The global water industry continues to perform steadily, if unspectacularly.