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It has made international news, it has made an American dentist infamous and has left a country without one of its biggest tourist attractions. Cecil the lion was wounded by an arrow on the 1 July 2015 and later killed some 40 hours later. It is alleged that Walter Palmer, the American dentist, paid US$50,000 [...]

At the recent Water Week Latin America in Chile (April 2015), WE&B had the opportunity to interview Mrs Monica Porto. At the recent Water Week Latin America in Chile (April 2015), WE&B had the opportunity to interview Mrs Monica Porto the Deputy Secretary for Water and Sanitation in Sõa Paulo, Brazil. As had been widely [...]

Días mundiales los hay y para todos los gustos, y cómo no, hay un Día Mundial del Agua. Días mundiales los hay y para todos los gustos, y cómo no, hay un Día Mundial del Agua. Cuando muchos de nosotros disfrutamos de podernos lavar las manos o de beber un vaso de agua potable del [...]

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. For of those of you that are very familiar with Spaghetti Westerns, you will be well acquainted with the movie “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”. The movie, set in the old west, in my point of view, has a number of similarities to European water companies [...]

The number of SMEs working within the water industry in Europe is vast, according to EuroStat there are over 9000 active SMEs, that provide at least 600,000 direct jobs in the water sector in Europe... However, if we consider that large companies have a monopoly on the treatment and production of water services, it makes [...]