Sentences with phrase «private water companies»

Front groups bankrolled by private water companies frequently run attack ads or host misleading websites alleging widespread inefficiency, inadequate financing, and lax quality control in public water, all while presenting privatisation as a silver - bullet cure.

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Advocacy group Food & Water Watch says private companies charge 59 percent more than public utilities, or $ 185 more per year, per household.

Not only is it true that «a full 20 percent of CEOs on Inc. magazine's 500 fastest - growing private companies list indicated that they continued to work a paying job long after founding their organization,» Raffiee explains in a write - up of the research, but many of our entrepreneurial icons actually waded into starting up slowly, keeping a corporate job for quite awhile while they tested the waters.

According to Petrie, the company is poised for an unusually long period of success, driven primarily by its purchase of private U.S. water distributor DS Services (DSS).

Six Flags operates approximately 20 theme and water parks in North America and signed an agreement with a private Ho Chi Minh City based company in March to open two parks in Vietnam.

From easing the sale of water utilities to private companies to telling transgender students which bathroom to use, many high - profile — and controversial — legislative proposals have little chance of passage after the Assembly last week completed what leaders say was the final major floor session day.

Ray co-engineered and placed the first private transaction secured by California Water Contracts and placed $ 400 Million in Non-Performing and Re-Performing commercial real estate loans for Security National Mortgage Company.

CCA has launched more than half a dozen new products in the last few months, including Barista Bros iced coffee, Zico coconut water, Grinders coffee pods, Perfect Fruit — a frozen fruit whip — and new bottled water brands that sell at a discount to Mount Franklin's, and enable the company to compete against the cheap private - label water filling supermarket shelves.

Throughout the following decade, Niagara's significant developments in vertical integration, innovative bottle design and high speed manufacturing positioned the company as the industry leading private label bottled water supplier in the Western United States.

There is also a shopping center, a bank, an antique shop, a laundry, an elementary school, a shrub nursery growing all sorts of rare tropical flora, a skeet range, tennis courts, 70 windmills pumping water from 420 wells, 500 building lots, a company of private guards and a Church of England chapel donated by Taylor himself.

I'm hardly a rabid anti-corporate activist, but when Nestle showed up in my small northern California town and tried to intimidate legal opponents of its proposed water bottling plant by subpoenaing their private financial records, I started investigating the company, and what I saw was not very encouraging.

Regions which have their water administered by private companies experience more expensive bills in every occasion but one.

Plesh Contract Packaging, a manufacturing company that makes oil - and water - based products under branded and private labels, will expand and improve its East Side facility.

The proposal came the same week the state Senate released a report revealing the discovery of «potentially dangerous contaminants» in the water supply in Newburgh, Orange County, and as the village of Hoosick Falls weighs a legal settlement with a private company over carcinogenic chemicals in their drinking water.

Cuomo is not happy that the City of Newburgh is threatening to sue the state along with federal agencies and two private companies over the toxic chemical that has shut down the city's primary water supply for nearly two years.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is not happy that the City of Newburgh is threatening to sue the state along with federal agencies and two private companies over the toxic chemical that has shut down the city's primary water supply for nearly two years.

10 of the 23 regional water companies in England and Wales are foreign - owned, and a further 8 are owned by private equity groups.

Nassau's sewer and storm - water district saved no money during the first year the county's sewer system was run by a private company, according to the county's Office of Legislative Budget Review.

Adam, a $ 10,000 - a-month consultant for AbTech, eventually lost his job with the firm when he couldn't help expedite payments to AbTech from the Nassau contract, despite assurances his father was pushing legislation on public - private partnerships and a potential $ 800 million clean water fund that would have helped the company's bottom line.

That day, according to state records, Gerrity gave $ 4,000 to the New York State political action committee of United Water, the private company that recently had received a 20 - year, $ 1 billion contract to manage Nassau's sprawling sewage treatment system.

The Legislature would be wise to put the brakes on a proposal reportedly moving quickly that would make it easier for private companies to buy and operate municipal water systems in Wisconsin.

The State is considering allowing private companies to begin drilling for natural gas in upstate New York, while the City is shelling out more than $ 630 million between now and 2017 on «filtration avoidance» by protecting the Cat / Del watershed, where 90 % of our water comes from.

The Senate President said, «His tour of duty included but not limited to his appointment at barely 23 years of age as a Commissioner for Economic Development in Lagos State in the 60s and as chairman of several private companies and government agencies, which included but not limited to Ragolis Water Ltd., AIICO Pension Managers, Lucky Fibres Nig.

He left for the private sector in 1980 and later launched a giant environmental services company, Air & Water Technologies Corp..

Upstate announced in 2011 that it would team up with a private company, COR Development, to redevelop 10 acres of the former Kennedy Square site, which is sandwiched between East Fayette and East Water streets.

Until now, work at WRC, the private company which became heir to the state - owned Water Research Centre when the water industry was privatised in 1989, has been protected by a five - year agreement with the 10 water compaWater Research Centre when the water industry was privatised in 1989, has been protected by a five - year agreement with the 10 water compawater industry was privatised in 1989, has been protected by a five - year agreement with the 10 water compawater companies.

«It was more of a preventive measure to make sure that we didn't have a problem,» says Scott Royer, general manager at Veolia Water North America's Milwaukee unit, the private company that manages the area's sewer system.

The Federal Government began the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in 1968 to counter the chronically high premiums for water damage and to cover consumers who either could not afford or were turned down for flood coverage by private companies.

In a separate, but somewhat related project, Cook is working with researchers from ORNL, Missouri University of Science and Technology, the University of Alberta, and private companies to develop coatings in high - pressure water jet cutting tools and severe service valves where parts are subject to abrasives and other extreme conditions.

Following the catastrophic hack that hit the company in 2015, the dating site for extramarital action is in hot water again - this time for exposing a large portion of its cheating clientele's private photos.

It also provides non-regulated water - related services under agreements with municipalities and other private companies.

The company also operates water and wastewater systems under contract on behalf of municipal and private clients in New Jersey and Delaware.

Travel with a company with over 28 + years of experience in this region and traverse boardwalks, enjoy a private wildlife cruise in the remote Cooper Inlet to hunt crocodiles, lunch in the rainforest and then its time for a swim in fresh mountain waters and try your hand at kayaking in the Blue Lagoon

The basic premise thus far seems interesting, with the focus being on private military corporations, such as the company formerly known as Black Water.

His recent work focuses on the power held by private companies that manage resources essential for humanity — like water, electricity, copper, and examines the questions of ownership and access that derive from this.

With grants from the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, and generous donations from private benefactors and small companies, students from all three schools in the Cooper Union continue to work on a range of projects that address energy, water and shelter in remote, rural regions in the less industrialized world.

Smoky Thanksgiving from Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private coal company, providing Americans with an ample dose of mercury, smog, acid rain, polluted drinking water, ocean acidification, fouled landscapes and global warming every day.

By preventing private companies from mining and burning coal from federal lands, BLM can better protect our climate and public health, the waters we use, the air we breathe, and the wild places we enjoy.

If measuring ice pack, tracking glacial melt, testing water quality, or monitoring wildlife refuges appeals to you, you're in luck — these are all jobs that need to be filled as both governments and private companies aim to do a better job at recording the changes in the world around us.

It is meant to be a practical tool for use by a broad range of stakeholders, including those in governmental agencies, water utilities, community water boards, non-governmental organizations, and private sector companies.

Today, as oil began flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and new revelations about DAPL's parent company, Energy Transfer Partners, hiring a private mercenary firm to run a counterinsurgency operation against water protectors in North Dakota and elsewhere, Rising Tide North America will continue to stand in solidarity with movements and people directly affected by the climate crisis.

In the end, preparing for rapidly changing ocean waters will require the shared effort of everyone, from fishermen to scientists, government agencies and private companies.

Last year, Kroger's Our Brands, the company's private - label portfolio, launched the new Bloom Haus floral line, which carries the Rainforest Alliance Certified seal, ensuring the product is grown on farms that meet social and environmental standards designed to protect forests, soil, water, wildlife, and the communities and people who live and work in these forests and farms.

The company «developed and continues to evolve one of the more sophisticated water stewardship programs in the private sector,» says a recent report from Business for Social Responsibility (BSR; see PDF here).

Across the country, communities are being aggressively courted to sell or lease their drinking water and wastewater utilities to private companies.

Private companies are no longer allowed to construct offshore sites in federal waters stretching from the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas in Alaska to New England and Chesapeake Bay in the Atlantic.

Italian law firm Picciau Sagramoso has advised Austep, an Italian engineering company specialized in Water & Wastewater Treatment (Wwt) and Waste to Energy (WTE), in the investment of the company by the private equity fund White Cloud Capital.

Controlled by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners, Germany's Elster Group is one of the world's largest metering companies for electric, gas, and water.

Clifford's clients include Water Companies, Local Authorities and private landowners, in fact anyone who finds themselves the victim of flooding.

CMS Prague has advised private equity - backed Waterlogic, a designer, manufacturer, distributor, and servicer of purified drinking water dispensers on the acquisition of Lux Aqua Czech s.r.o. and Lux Aqua Hungaria Kft., a Czech and a Hungarian company that provides drinking water solutions for B2B clients.