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Subject: for belindalevez-ga - Waste Water Treatment
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Asked by: blucken-ga
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Posted: 13 Mar 2005 18:35 PST
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Question ID: 494134
I need similar info on the Waste Water treatment as you provided on
well water ground water treatment systems
including:
Volume of wastewater in the US, Europe and Asia
What % of the waste water is not treated
What % is treated
Growth of treatment by region
Examples of contracts by region $/ gallon for waste water treatment
Name of service providers by region (europe, asia, US)

Big tip if help!
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Subject: Re: for belindalevez-ga - Waste Water Treatment
Answered By: belindalevez-ga on 14 Mar 2005 08:19 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
<Volume of wastewater in the US, Europe and Asia.

United States.
35 billion gallons each day. (Source: Sewage: Forests: Clean Water and
Cooling the Planet. By Daniel Wickham. Earth Island Journal.)
http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/winter99/fe_winter99sewage.html

Europe, North America and Asia.
In 1995 it is estimated that the volume of waste water was 326 km3 per
year in Europe and 431 km3 per year in North America and 590 km3 per
year in Asia. (Source: Unesco.)
http://www.unesco.org/science/waterday2000/safeguarding.htm

China.
Wastewater discharged in 2002 ? 63.1 billion cubic meters.
Industrial wastewater made up 61.5% and domestic wastewater made up
38.5 percent. (Source: The International Trade Administration.)
http://www.ita.doc.gov/media/Publications/pdf/chinawater2005.pdf

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Percentage of waste water that is treated/not treated.

In North America 10% and in Europe 34% of wastewater is not treated
(Source: WHO, 2000b. World Water Day 2001.)
http://www.worldwaterday.org/wwday/2001/thematic/control.html

China
Municipal wastewater treatment rate (2002) ? 39.9 %.  (Source: The
International Trade Administration.)
http://www.ita.doc.gov/media/Publications/pdf/chinawater2005.pdf

Less than 40 percent of wastewater in urban China is treated. (Source:
The Professional Association for China?s environment.)
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:WPwE3qmBfT0J:www.chinaenvironment.net/sino/sino8.pdf+%22percent+of+wastewater+is+treated%22&hl=en

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Growth of treatment.

US, Europe and China.
The water treatment business is fairly mature in the developed world,
especially the U.S. The market for water treatment chemicals is
experiencing annual growth of about 2.5% in the U.S. and 2.7% in
Western Europe. Growth in China is 7 to 8%.

Year on year growth for the US water and sewerage market is expected
to expand between 1.8% and 2.6%. (Source: Euromonitor.)
http://www.euromonitor.com/Water_and_sewerage_in_USA_(mmp)

Globally.
Wastewater treatment is growing at about 7% globally per year.
(Source: Turning on the Tap. Alexander H. Tullo, C&EN Northeast News
Bureau. November 18, 2002.)
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/8046/8046water.html

China.
The treatment rate of city municipal wastewater is estimated to
increase to 45 percent by 2005 and the wastewater treatment rate in
the cities with populations greater than 500,000 will increase to 60
percent. (Source: The International Trade Administration.)
http://www.ita.doc.gov/media/Publications/pdf/chinawater2005.pdf

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Contracts

United States.
1.
City of Richmond - $0.67 per 1000 gallons.
Contract with Veolia.
18 years $70 million
(Source: Pennet.com)
http://ww.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&ARTICLE_ID=221279&VERSION_NUM=1&p=41

Richmond treatment plant - 16 million gallons per day wastewater
treatment plant. (Source: Veolia.)
http://www.veoliawaterna.com/project/project.asp?stateName=&ID=206

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2. Gary Indiana - $0.46 per 1000 gallons.
(Source: United Water.)
http://www.unitedwater.com/gary.htm

10 year contract, $100 million. (Source: United Water.)
http://www.waternunc.com/gb/lyon4gb.htm

Gary Wastewater Treatment plant capacity is 60 million gallons a day.
(Source: Earthtech.com)
http://www.earthtech.com/news/12062001Gary.htm

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3. 
Fort Dix $0.32 per 1000 gallons
5 years $2.7 million.
(Source: Southwest Water.)
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:dHZJJtuEZgwJ:www.southwestwater.com/ar03/presletter2.htm+%22southwest+water%22+wastewater+%22million+contract%22&hl=en

4.6 million gallons per day.
(Source: Utility Privatization of Water System at Fort Dix, NJ and
Wastewater Utility Systems at Fort Dix/McGuire AFB, NJ.)
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:LVWee0BdmAkJ:www.desc.dla.mil/DCM/Files/RFI%2520final%2520for%2520Utility%2520Privatization%2520of%2520Water%2520System%2520at%2520Fort%2520Dix.doc++%22fort+dix%22+%22million+gallons%22&hl=en

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4. 
Sioux City - $0.65 per 1000 gallons
American Water 20 year contract worth $114 million
24 million gallons per day 
(Source: American Water.)
http://www.amwater.com/awpr/news/news4015.html

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5.
Clarksville, Indiana $0.77 per 1000 gallons
5 million gallons per day.
The contact also includes operations and maintenance of the wastewater
collection system.
Contract management fee is $1,405,452 annually. (Source: American Water.)
http://www.amwater.com/awpr/news/news4045.html

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6.
Milwaukee - $0.12 per 1000 gallons
United Water Services, 10 years, $350 million
690 million gallons per day
$29.8 million annual fee.
Under the agreement, MMSD will retain industrial-waste pretreatment,
engineering, central-lab monitoring and research, Milorganite sales,
marketing and distribution, and field sampling and monitoring, in
addition to monitoring contract compliance. United Water Services will
provide operation and maintenance of the wastewater treatment plants
(with peak hydraulic capacity of 390 mgd and 300 mgd, respectively),
the collection system, Milorganite production (52,000 tons per year,
yielding over $5 million in gross revenue), and a 30 MW co-generation
plant now used to heat sludge. (Source: Privatization.org.)
http://www.privatization.org/database/policyissues/water_1997trends.html

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Europe
1.
Brussels - $0.73 per 1000 gallons.
20 year contract. 49.5 million Euros ($66.36 million) per year.  
Under a Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) contract, Aquiris will
design, build and finance the treatment plant and connecting
collection system. It will then operate the facilities for 20 years.
No details are given of the capacity of the plant but it is for 1.1
million people the same as Indianaapolis which processes 250 million
gallons of wastewater a day. (Source: Veolia.)
http://www.veoliaenvironnement-finance.com/press_release/press270601.htm?PHPSESSID=e1c49cf674ff163c369e6b857f6dabd2

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Service providers by region.

Global
Ondeo (Suez Environnement)
Veolia (Vivendi Environnement)
Thames Water (RWE-AG)
Saur (Bouyges Group
Bechtel
United Utilities.

USA 
American Anglican Environmental Technologies (AAET)
Azurix
Severn Trent Services
Vivendi Water
Suez Lyonnaise /Nalco
(Source : Consolidation and Industry Restructuring in Water and
Wastewater Treatment. By Chuck Brennan.)
http://www.awt.org/members/publications/analyst/2000/Winter/consolidation.htm
Leading Firms in Contract O&M.
http://www.awt.org/members/publications/analyst/2000/Winter/consolidation_fig3.htm

Europe
Ondeo (Suez Environnement)
Veolia (Vivendi Environnement)
Thames Water (RWE-AG)
Saur (Bouyges Group)
Bechtel
United Utilities.


China
Vivendi
Suez
Thames Water.
(Source: Note on Global Corporate Dominance in the Fresh Water Sector.)
http://jubileesouth.org/news/EpZZZZVEEEdDlvekyi.shtml
Ondeo
http://www.waternunc.com/gb/Ondeo_eng2002_08.htm
Vivendi 
http://www.veoliawatersystems.com/uk/CP_311001/shanghai.htm>


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