The company name Veolia may not mean much to you today amongst the vast array of private companies leaching off of the Irish Water farce. But these are the sharks amongst the gold fish. HAS A DEAL BEEN DONE ... Veolia Environnement S.A. is a French transnational company with activities in four main service and utility areas traditionally managed by public authorities – water supply and management, waste management, energy and transport services... Veolia Water North America, headquartered in Chicago, Ill., is the top private water services contractor in the United States. With $546 million in revenue from 166 government clients, it dominatedthe country’s water outsourcing market in 2009. Despite the company’s predominance, its track record includes privatization failures in communities large and small. After several of its largest contracts — including India napolis, New Orleans and Puerto Rico — ran into serious snags, Veolia was forced to reconsider its strategy for turning water provision into a private, profit-making venture TO READ MORE Notable Failures ON VEOLIA globalexchange.org/…/defau…/files/ACloserLook.pdf
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