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Corporate Profiles of The Water Privatizers
Website References
Prepared by Janet M Eaton, SCC Liaison,
Corporate Accountability Committee
July 10, 2002
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A) General Profiles
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http://www.psiru.org/reportsindex.htm
The Water Multinationals
By David Hall
September 1999
Commissioned by: Public Services International (PSI)
Presented at: PSI conference on water industry, Bulgaria, October 1999; OTV
conference on water industry in Germany, Essen, October 1999
This paper provides an overview of the companies that dominate the world of water
privatisation including Suez Lyonnais des Eaux; Viviendi; Bouygues/SAUR; Azurix
(USA); English water companies - Anglian, Biwater, Hyder, Severn-Trent, Thames,
United Utilities; Spanish water companies- Aquas de Barcelona, Endesa, Iberdola,
Dragados; Italian Companies - AMGA (Azienda Mediterranea Gas e Acqua); German
companies - RWE, Veba, Berlin wasser Betriebe
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http://www.psiru.org/reportsindex.htm
Public Services International (PSI)
Enron: Corporate Conbtribution to global inequality
Kate Bayliss and David Hall
PSIRU, University of Greenwich
psiru@psiru.org
June 2001
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http://www.polarisinstitute.org/
Polaris Institute, Canada [Corporate Profiles ]
The Final Frontier: A Working Paper on the Big 10 Global Water
Corporations and the Privatization and Corporatization of the World's
Last Public Resource
Prepared by Gil Yaron for the Polaris Institute
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http://www.polarisinstitute.org/
Polaris Institute - Corporate Profiles
SUEZ - Corporate Profile
1. Organizational Profile
2. Economic Profile
3. Social Profile - Environmental Profile, Labour Questions, Corruption,
4. Political Profile
5. Quotations
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http://www.polarisinstitute.org/
Polaris Institute - Corporate Profiles
Bechtel - Corporate Profile
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Organizational Profile
Economic Profile
Social Profile - Environmental Profile, Labour Questions, Corruption,
Political Profile
Quotations
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http://www.polarisinstitute.org/
Polaris Institute -Corporate Profiles
Vivendi Universal – Corporate Profile
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Organizational Profile
Economic Profile
Social Profile - Environmental Profile, Labour Questions, Corruption,
Political Profile
Stakeholder Profile
Quotations
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http://www.canadians.org/blueplanet/pubs-fact1.html
The Blue Planet Project
Publications
Fact Sheet 1: Facts on the World's Top Ten Water Companies
..DID YOU KNOW? The World Bank estimates the global market for water to be worth
$800 billion. Ten corporate giants are vying for control - and they're looking to cash in.
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http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/crp/may02.htm
Corporate Research E-Letter No. 24, May 2002
Profits, Profits Everywhere – And Soon Not a Drop to Drink
Includes section on - Industry Titans profiles - Suez Lyonnais des Eaux and Vivendi
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http://www.canadians.org/blueplanet/publications/eng_bluegold-intro.html
BLUE GOLD: The Global Water Crisis and the Commodification of the World's Water
Supply Revised Edition Spring, 2001
By: Maude Barlow, IFG, COC
Ch . 3 The Water Privateers
Reference to Suez Lyonnais des Eaux, Vivendi and Aquas del Tunari - subsidiary of
Bechtel
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http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/cmep_Water/articles.cfm?ID=7094
Public Citizen Water Campaign
WEF’s Water Multinationals: A Background Check
… With a deepening global water crisis already imperiling the lives of hundreds of
millions of people, private companies are presenting themselves to governments around
the world as knights in shining armor who will save the day by purchasing or taking over
operations of water systems, whipping them back into shape, and ensuring that the tap
won t run dry. Knights in shining armor? Well, maybe not:
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Vivendi (Subsidiaries include U.S. Filter, Universal Studios);
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Suez (Subsidiaries include ONDEO, United Water Resources, Aguas Argentinas);
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RWE (Subsidiaries include Thames Water, Azurix; acquisition of American Water
Works Company is in the process)
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http://www.thewaterpage.com/int_companies1.htm#where
Private Water Companies - where do they operate?
Companies operating water & sewerage services outside of their home countries
International Water Companies on the Continents
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B) Profiles and Documentation of Water Corporations operating in the
United States
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/us_campaign/neworleans/
Public Citizen
PDF File accessible from above page
(10/30/01) Water Privatization: A Broken Promise
Case Histories from throughout the United States [69 KB]
A Special Report by Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program,
Washington, D.C., October, 2001
Here are 13 case histories that should give any public official pause before handing over
a public resources to a private , for-profit corporation. Some of these experiences have
made local governments second-guess the wisdom of privatizing. The following
Municipalities' experiences with private corporations are profiled:
Lee County Floridas experience with ST Environmental Services, a subsidiary of Severn
Trent ; Atlanta, Georgia's experience with United Water, subsidiary of Suez Lyonnais des
Eaux ; New Orleans experience with Professional Services Group which transferred its
O&M operations to US Filter, which in turn was acquired by French conglomerate
Vivendi ; Jersey City, New Jersey's experience with United Water Resources; Charlston
West Virginia's experience with West-Virginia -American, a subsidiary of American
Water Works Co. largest private water company in the US; Chattanooga, Tennessee's
experience with Tennessee-American, subsidiary of American Water Works; Duval,
Nassau and St Johns Counties, Florida's experience with United Water Resources
(UWR); Hingham and Hull, Massachusetts experience with another American Water
Works subsidiary; Huber Heights, Ohio's experience with NJ giant American Water
Works ; Pekin, Ohio's experience with another subsidiary of American Water Works ;
Peoria. Illinois's experience with American water Work's subsidiary Illinois-American
Water; Washington Court House, Ohio's experience with Ohio Water Service Co.;
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http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/us_campaign/neworleans/
Public Citizen
PDF File accessible available from above page
(9/18/01) The Big Greedy: A Background Check on the Corporations
Vying to Take Over New Orleans' Water System
A Special Report by Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program,
Washington, D.C., September, 2001
The Big Greedy report , details the unseemly histories of three multinational corporations
likely to submit bids to operate the water and sewage systems for nearly half a million
people in New Orleans, in what would be the largest public works privatization in U.S.
history [Press release http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=683]
The report profiles the track records of : OMI Inc. of of Greenwood. Colorado; United
Water Resources of New Jersey -subsidiary of Suez-Lyonnias des Eaux and US Filter of
Warrendale, Pennsylvannia - subsidiary of Vivendi
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http://www.citizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/electricity/Enron/articles.cfm?ID=
Public Citizen
Liquid Assets: Enron's Dip into Water Business Highlights Pitfalls of Privatization
A Special Report by Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program,
Washington, D.C., April, 2002
The following report demonstrates how Enron’s brief tenure in the water business
highlights many risks of water privatization: poor contract performance, political
corruption and influence peddling, environmental violations, prospects of water
commodification, and uncertainty about the financial stability of private contractors.
It describes the failures and controversies of Enron's water subsidiary Azurix in the
following jurisdictions: Buenos Aires Province, Argentina; Madera County, California water bank project; Florida Everglades Project; Fulton County, Georgia; Houston, Texas;
Accra, Ghana.
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C) Profiles of Water Corporations Operating in Africa
http://www.challengeglobalization.org/ html/otherpubs/Ghana_Water.pdf
WATER PRIVATISATION IN GHANA?: AN ANALYSIS OF GOVERNMENT AND
WORLD BANK POLICIES
Jointly Produced by the Integrated Social Development Centre Accra, Ghana
And the Globalization Challenge Initiative, Tacoma park, Md , USA
See Part 5 - Five MNCs bid for Ghana's urban water services p. 15 -18
Provides profiles of five multinational corporations bidding for Ghana's water
services - SAUR - headquartered in Paris, International Water and United Utilities
- a UK based company and one of the largedt in the world; Biwater- a British led
consortium; Halliburton - Texas based company and one of the world's largest
provider of oil field services; Suez Lyonnais des Eaux- Paris based company
formed in 1997 by merger of Compagnie de Suez and water treatment and
engineering conglomerate Lyonnais des Eaux.
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