Press Release from hkc22.com (Helmut Kaiser Consultancy) Beijing and Tuebingen
www.hkc22.com and http://www.hkc22.com/chinawater.html Water and wastewater investment in China over US$200 billion in government’s Five-year Plan. Experts warn water crisis impending. China’s market for water and wastewater treatment will increase to US$22,7 billion in 2005 from US$18,7 billion in 2004 and is expected to reach US$33.2 billion by 2010. Residential water market reached US$1.46 billion in 2004 and will increase to US$3.3 billion by 2010, US$5.48 billion by 2015. (hkc22.com) China, with the polulation of 1.3 billion, is now confronted with severe problems of water shortage as well as water pollution. As a price for economic growth in recent ten years, 77% of effluent is currently untreated, 70 percent of the population has no access to safe drinking water and 400 in 600 cities face water shortage. Contamination and lack of supply capacity are leading factors for water shortage. The government vows to solve water problems by 2015 and has constituted and improved a series of laws and regulations such as opening water industry to civil and foreign investors under certain conditions. The Tenth Five-year plan of the Ministry of Construction determines that sewage treatment facilities must be built in all cities by 2005, and sewage treatment rate should increase to 45% by 2005 and up to 90% by 2010. Massive investment (over US$ 200 billion) over the next ten years is needed in both water supplies and wastewater treatment. The wastewater treatment of “Three Lakes and Rivers” scheme alone is a US$150 billion project. Thanks to large market volume and increasing growth rate, the market for water treatment and water treatment equipment presents high profit margin and profit potential, although relatively low drinking water price hinders some investors from entering water industry. More than 350 medium and large sized companies are currently active in the field of water, wastewater treatment and drinking water. Since 1990s, more than 50 international water giantshave entered China’s water industry and capital market since the 1990s. More than 70 percent of large or medium sized water and wastewater treatment equipment is imported. Foreign companies are now active in every facet of China’s water market, among which two French companies, Suez and Véolia Water, and a UK company, Thames Water, are the best-know and most successful foreign companies in this growing market. Companies such as Nestlé is establishing its leading position in the highly competitive but also highly lucrative bottled water market in China. With opening up of the water market for private and foreign capital, 5000 more water companies are predicted to emerge in several years. Innovations and new technologies will be of special interest and profit-promising. China’s membership in WTO opens further opportunities for international co-operation in global water affairs and attract more foreign companies to participate in the dramatically expanding market. China Water, a comprehensive study of water market, technology and projects in 34 Provinces in China 2003-2015, is just released and can be purchased. For more information please see http://www.hkc22.com/chinawater.html China will be soon the biggest single market in water worldwide pls see http://www.hkc22.com/watermarketsworldwide.html Responsible for this: www.hkc22.com, Helmut Kaiser Consultancy, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany Tel: +49 7071 67001, Fax: +49 7071 68086 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Internet and Democracy Across Asia: MAY 2001 Online Trends in Governance, Civil Society and Media More information at: http://www.e-democracy.org/do Rule: No more than two posts a day per participant. To SUBSCRIBE, send e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/do-asia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
