Sentence examples for water firm from inspiring English sources

Take Highland Spring, a Scottish bottled water firm.

The water firm United Utilities issued the public health warning after discovering "low" traces of cryptosporidium in its water supply.

The water firm is advising the customers to boil their water for all drinking, food preparation and teeth brushing as a precaution until further notice.

Here, surely, was proof that Thatcher was right: Britain's largest water firm is still enjoying bumper profits after 25 years in private hands.

Big in construction, the firm also owns a British water firm, Wessex Water, operates hotels and upmarket shopping malls, runs a high-speed rail link from central Kuala Lumpur to the city's airport and owns a chain of power stations.

Privatisation in particular has become deeply unpopular: privatisations of a water firm in Bolivia in 2000, and of an electricity generator in Peru last year, were scrapped after riots.

In Western Europe, water firms typically employ two or three people for every 1,000 water connections.

Ofwat said it cross-referenced Thames Water's cost demands with information from other water firms.

Water firms have abandoned plans to set up hose hotlines enabling customers to shop their neighbours.

Private water firms beat the public sector on all counts.What's gone wrong?

Britain privatised its water firms in 1989 and French municipalities have been contracting out water services since the 19th century.