Like other utilities, American Water Works enjoys a government-sanctioned monopoly in most of its markets.
Now it has offered 37% over the market price for American Water Works' shares.
Hastings Water Works, a Brecksville, Ohio, pool-maintenance and lifeguard-staffing firm, uses Twitter and Facebook to find and hire summer employees.
In press Journal of the American Water Works Association August 2003 issue.
Shares of American Water Works currently trade at 16.89x 12-month forward earnings, an 8.8% discount to the peer group average of 18.53x.
Dickerson does not believe either private equity investors or any other water utility companies would be interested in American Water Works because of the potential high price.
And in the first merger announcement made since the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, American Water Works, an investor-owned water company, has agreed to be acquired by German-based utility company RWE.
American Water Works reported third quarter earnings per share of 86 cents on November 7, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 82 cents by 4.9% and the year-ago earnings of 71 cents by 21.1%.
However, a spokesman for the Denver-based American Water Works Association said 85% of its 4, 200 members -- which are responsible for 67% of the drinking water available in the U.S. -- had completed their Y2K remediation efforts by July.
Dickerson says an initial public offering for American Water Works would help bring down inflated multiples of smaller U.S. utilities which is the reason Dickerson moved most of his funds outside the U.S. Better valuations would mean more investment options.
He says only General Electric would be large enough to swallow American Water Works whole, but companies like GE, ITT Industries and 3M have not shown previous interest in water utility assets, preferring to stick to water industrial assets--e.g. filtration, desalination and instrumentation markets.
Thames Water said the works at Abingdon would ensure the quality of the water in the River Thames was "exceptionally high".
But visitors found paintings including Monet's Water Lilies and works by Picasso, Klimt and Henry Moore replaced by the message, while the details of some rooms would not load at all.
The company said its customers thought reusing water from wastewater treatment works made sense.
And a bid to require Parliament to approve the terms and conditions of any financial assistance for major water and sewage infrastructure works was defeated by 300 votes to 231.
The "high-water mark" provision works this way: If the manager gets an incentive fee for taking the fund up X%, he doesn't get additional incentive fees until the fund tops a cumulative X% return.
Maybe it was a great hank of river weed turning below in the cold current, maybe it was just the way gravity works in water, but it felt like something that matched me exactly, the same shape and weight and volume, and it always seemed as if that something came to life the moment I stepped into the water.
The in flight-wifi with T-Mobile works over water (as opposed to the GoGo system used on TransCon flights), and I was not only able to stay on top of the story, but be able to work on a new editorial article with a good few hours of lead time (compared to waiting and hearing about the news when I landed).
This works by injecting water into a reaction chamber, where it achieves plasma state through a high-intensity electrical field.
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But Irvine-born Robb, who works as a water bailiff and sometimes gamekeeper, is keen to pick up the pieces of his career after being assured by a doctor specialising in the condition and his family GP that he is fit to resume boxing.
"It works on Boston Harbor water, on Charles River water, anything, " says Metcalfe.
But it says ministers are still failing to produce a long-term, sustainable approach which works with our natural water systems.
Cooperating institutions: Environmental Management Authority, Meteorological Office, Institute of Marine Affairs, Forestry Department, Water and Sewerage Authority, Ministry of Works, Town and Country Planning Department, various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and public communities.
As part of the scheme, Wessex Water will also enlarge its existing treatment works at Littledown, Codford, Wylye and Camp Hill and create new sites at Monkton Deverill and Summerslade Down.
Phil Sheppard, Highways Agency asset manager, said works would reduce the likelihood of standing water on the carriageway, which is prone to flooding during heavy rainfall.
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That's why scientists are so interested in water at poles, and the fact Moon dust works well with microwaves and could theoretically be used to make a paved surface if you created roads.
The hydrogen home refuelling station works via an electrolyser which produces the gas from water and electricity.
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