WATER ONLINE

BY MONICA DOBIETHE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the development of an international utility Internet service, which will allow water companies to reduce their procurement costs by calling in bids from a wide range of suppliers.Ondeo Nalco, a subsidiary of the French group Suez, and RWE's Thames Water are co-operating to form a joint-venture that will offer electronic procurement, as well as information and bid management services to companies in water-related sectors.Brussels concluded that the company's provisionally-named Water Portal will not break ...


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