Wet dreams - dry realities: lost opportunities for an Australian presence in the global water services industry

Title: Wet dreams - dry realities: lost opportunities for an Australian presence in the global water services industry
Creator: Nadolny, Andrew
Relation: International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment Vol. 3, Issue 3-4, p. 195-211
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJEWE.2007.019279
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: Urban water provision, traditionally a local activity, has since the 1990s been drawn into the orbit of global capital accumulation. The largest private water companies that are internationally active are several vertically integrated French and the UK firms. This article dicusses reasons for this dominance and contrasts the situation with Australia where the domestic water services industry has only achieved a minor international presence. Some domestic firms were earmarked in the 1990s as representatives of a potentially prosperous expoding environmental technology industry. However, these global aspirations have largely failed, due to destructive inter-firm rivalry and uncoordinated industry assistance programmes.
Subject: Australia; exporting environmental technology; global water services industry; industry policy
Identifier: uon:4947
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/42781
Identifier: ISSN:1741-8437
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