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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEED for greater openness in the management of scarce water resources in Europe, north Africa, the Middle East and central Asia is required, to better highlight the growing costs of ensuring reliable supplies and persuade the public that more investment is needed to guarantee them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE has been a lot of talk about water in international meetings and organisations this year. Report after report has spelt out a gloomy message: we are all using too much water and if reforms do not make systems more sustainable, then a thirsty future beckons.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE GERMAN plastic container caps producer Loeffler Kunststoffwerk has announced plans to open a new plant in Russia to create greater capacity for its major clients n the region, which include Proctor & Gamble. Loeffler Kunststoffwerk, a unit of US Seaquist, will open the new plant in Vladimir, just outside Moscow, in the late autumn.…

BY MARK ROWE
DANISH confectionary giant Dandy’s Dirol-Cadbury has won an injunction to continue operating its plant in the Russian town of Novgorod despite government efforts to close it down for alleged unspecified breaches. Russia’s National Resources Ministry said it had decided to suspend Russia’s largest chewing gum manufacturer for what it described as “the unauthorised release of harmful agents into the atmosphere” at the US$100 million factory.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA’S Natural Resources Ministry has ordered the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, the world’s largest chewing gum producer, to stop work at its St. Petersburg factory for unspecified ecological violations. Ministry officials have not disclosed what regulations Wrigley has allegedly violated but the company vigorously denies any wrongdoing and is continuing to operate.…

Keith Nuthall
FRANCE is giving Euro 40 million to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to help it fund Russia’s cleansing of the radioactive contamination in the Barents Sea caused by its aging decommissioned nuclear fleet. The money will be channelled through the nuclear-related budgets of the EBRD-managed Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) Support Fund, the principal financing arm of European Union policies aimed at cleaning up pollution in its neighbours to the north.…

Keith Nuthall
FRANCE is giving Euro 40 million to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to help it fund Russia’s cleansing of the radioactive contamination in the Barents Sea caused by its aging decommissioned nuclear fleet. The money will be channelled through the nuclear-related budgets of the EBRD-managed Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) Support Fund, the principal financing arm of European Union policies aimed at cleaning up pollution in its neighbours to the north.…

BY MARK ROWE
AUSTRALIAN specialised technology firm Ausmelt has signed a US$9.5 million contract to provide its technology to modernise the Karabashmed copper smelter in Russia’s Urals region. Work on an engineering design for a new Ausmelt furnace and an electric settling furnace will begin immediately and the new plant is set to commence operations in the second half of 2004.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ROYAL Dutch/Shell Group has said its US$1.16 billion joint venture with Sibir Energy to tap west Siberian oil fields was told by Russia to halt work because of alleged breaches of licence conditions and Russian objections to changes in the companies’ development plans.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA’S Vsampo-Avisma Group, Europe’s top titanium producer, is planning to sell as much as 27 per cent of its stock at an initial public offering on foreign exchanges. Moscow-based Troika Dialog brokerage will advise on the sale, according to Vsmpo-Avisma’s deputy general director Vyacheslav Bresht.…