French Go Into Japanese Sewers

[Mulboyne]

[floatr][/floatr]AFP: France's Veolia to fully enter Japanese waterworks market
France's Veolia Water, the world's largest water company, will fully enter the Japanese waterworks market by boosting its stake in a Japanese partner...Veolia Japan Water KK, a subsidiary of the French firm, has recently upped its stake in Nishihara Environment Technology Inc, a waterworks firm, to 51 percent...apan's waterworks market was liberalised in 2002 when a legal revision allowed local governments to outsource waterworks operations as part of the nation's structural reforms. Nishihara Environment is currently engaged in water-related business for municipalities, such as construction of waterworks facilities and human waste treatment plants...more...

In case you've forgotten, that's Sui-Sui, Japan's sewage system mascot.

[maraboutslim]

For what it's worth, Veolia runs the wastewater treatment plant in the city where I work. The city is currently being sued by a non-governmental environmental organization because the treatment plant has dumped sewage into San Francisco Bay several times over the last few years.

[IkemenTommy]

I wonder what the French is trying to accomplish here