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...committed 10 penalties, resulting in 10:30 of box time for the team and suggesting that the losing streak has also resulted in a bit of mental fatigue. “The effort was not an issue,” Flood said. “We just needed to maintain composure. We’re making mistakes as a team.” —Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
Whatever their strategic differences, both Suez and Veolia turn water into cash in the same basic way: securing long-term concessions from public authorities to run, maintain and, if necessary, build water and sewage systems, but not buy them. Both reject the notion that they are privatizing water. "We're delegated providers of a public service," insists Frrot. The idea is to stay "asset light" and profitable while running publicly owned facilities. "In France we've developed over many years a kind of partnership between public and private that works well in the water sector," says Chaussade...
...Some 40% of the world's population does not have adequate water and sewer systems, according to the U.N. And it's not just the developing world that needs to ramp up investment. The U.S. will have to spend as much as $41 billion a year until 2019 to maintain its water infrastructure, according to one Congressional Budget Office study--that's almost twice the $21.6 billion invested in 1999. "We've got thick pipes from the 19th century becoming obsolete at the same time as thinner ones laid after World War II," says Peter Cook, executive director...
...Polish success story is feeding the labor debate as the E.U. continues to expand to the east and new countries such as Romania and Bulgaria join. Despite their positive experience with immigrants, both Britain and Ireland decided to maintain labor restrictions on Romania and Bulgaria for the time being. And countries such as Germany and France are keeping the labor door shut to new member states--E.U. law permits them to do so until...
...ancient institution,” the possibility of his having gotten a “raw deal” never arose; the small annoyances associated with Oxford have not impacted his experience. He indicated, in an e-mail, a faith in the ability of high-achieving university students to maintain a balanced perspective: “When the guy who sat on the plane next to you coming here is a [Rhodes] scholar from Zimbabwe, it’s hard to complain about a stipend that lets you travel as well as live. It would be like saying Harvard...