Food & Water Watch releases Biwater brief

US consumer and anti-water privatisation activist group, Food & Water Watch, has released a new brief on water multinational Biwater in its corporate profile series. This brief details the “failures” of Biwater’s global activity, giving particular reference to the recent Initial Public Offering (IPO) of their Cascal subsidiary. It provides a summary of Biwater’s canceled contracts (including the Dar es Salaam contract, Tanzania), challenges to existing contracts (e.g. Nelpsruit, South Africa) and the numerous withdrawal and rejection of project proposals (Philippines, Ghana, Ecuadaor etc.).

Other corporate profiles of water multinationals are available for:

American Water
Suez
Veolia
Bechtel
American International Group
Saur

The Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU), UK, maintains a database of companies involved in the private provision of public services, focusing on multinationals and their subsidiaries in water, energy, waste management, and healthcare.  Some of the information in the database is available to the general public. Full access is normally only available to trade unions affiliated to Public Services International (PSI).