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H2O Aqua Resources

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Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Aqua Resources LSE:H2O London Ordinary Share GG00B39T7V85 ORD NPV
  Price Change % Change Share Price Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  0.00 0.00% 0.325 - 0.00 00:00:00
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
0 0 N/A 0

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DateSubjectAuthorDiscuss
09/6/2008
07:01
Stock list in header now updated - with clickthru links to advfn web page per each stock. Please let me know of other UK-listed water related stocks that should be included.
m.t.glass
08/6/2008
07:24
Water crisis to be biggest world risk
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 11:56pm BST 06/06/2008

A catastrophic water shortage could prove an even bigger threat to mankind this century than soaring food prices and the relentless exhaustion of energy reserves...


...governments had been slow to accept the awful truth that usable water is running out. Fresh rainfall is not enough to refill the underground water tables. "Water is not a renewable resource. People have been mining it without restraint because it has not been priced properly,"

...A Goldman Sachs report said water was the "petroleum for the next century", offering huge rewards for investors who know how to play the infrastructure boom...

...Disputes over cross-border water basins have already prompted Egypt to threaten military action against any country that draws water off the Nile without agreement.

...Goldman Sachs said the best option is to spread investments across a basket of small "potential takeout candidates




See full article, and a long stream of (sceptical and non-sceptical) comments at


Some of the contributors make the point (as does this thread's header) that there is no global shortage of water - the oceans are full of it and maybe getting fuller. But desalination is an energy-intensive process and energy costs are soaring. It's a processing and distribution issue. And whipping up fear helps whip up business.

m.t.glass
23/5/2008
13:51
thanks I've read crash proof, you should go watch some of his videos on you tube if you haven't already from last year they are hilarious, seems to have been "dropped" by CNBC, unfortunately, comes over as anti American although he isn't, also read a few Jim Rogers books, just got " A bull in China", although haven't started it yet
Good luck

jonno1
23/5/2008
13:26
so who is "our" in your post?
jonno1
23/5/2008
13:08
That is the irony here,IG can buy it,but only as a short term (risky) spread bet,HSBC,Redmayme and Hoodless all can't buy it for me. The very fact that these brokers can't carry out a simple overseas stock purchase makes me want to buy it even more. 8% yeild from a growth stock,where am I going to get that in $ or £ ? I will try TDW,(have no account with them) Thanks very much for your help Jonno1
traderabc
23/5/2008
12:48
well IGINDEX even spreadbet it so it can't be that hard to buy it

seems to be at a 52W high

."Our first pick is a water treatment" who is "our"????, hope you haven't paid good money for an advice sheet, been there done that, just use stockgumshoe.com

TDW can buy them they tell me

jonno1
23/5/2008
12:29
jonno1 I think the company I'm refering to in post 10 is called Hyflux traded on the Singapore x change. Redmayne Bently cant buy it for me I'm trying to get it with a couple of other brokers I use but so far it isn't looking good. Shame as this should be a winner long term both the sector (water) and the curency (singapore$)should do well against the £.
traderabc
23/5/2008
12:22
sorry what company are you talking about?
jonno1
23/5/2008
11:36
I'm intrested in this company,does anyone here know who they may be? Any helpfull comments appreciated. Looking at the charts here sjw or pico look like possibilities,either of those two traded in Singapore?

Commodity investor Jim Rogers has said that on his trips around the world he has seen numerous cities and communities that were abandoned anciently. He said they collapsed because they did not have the one commodity necessary to maintain stability: Water. While raw materials rise and fall along with supply and demand and in many instances can be substituted, clean water is unique and will always be in demand.

Our first pick is a water treatment company headquartered in Singapore with sales worldwide. Currently, they earn 80% of their revenue from work in polluted, mainland China, cleaning both municipal and industrial waste water. The municipal and industrial segments produce equal amounts of revenue for the company. The company also builds desalination plants and runs them. This work is sought after in desert regions like the Middle East and North Africa. They also do business in India and Indonesia.

Recently the company won a contract to build the world's largest desalinization plant. The project will be in North Africa. The company will complete the plant in three years and has the contract to run it for 25 years thereafter. This order pushed the company's order book to over $1 billion dollars or to about 5 years worth of business. Without anymore orders, they will be busy for many years to come.

US$1.3 billion in market cap, dividend paid is twice what it was in 2003, but yield is slight at 0.5%. Since 2005, the high, and life-time high, was S$4.88 in July of 2005 and low was S$2.06 in August of 2006. Today the stock trades near S$3.70 or ~US$2.70.

traderabc
07/3/2008
20:55
The world's biggest water firm, french company Veolia, has announced a 22% rise in annual profits. Which wasn't enough to impress analysts who had expected more. Like most water companies, thety are not a pure play on water.

Forbes.com
7 Mar 2008

LONDON - Shares in France's Veolia Environnement, the world's largest water utility, fell to their lowest level in over a year on Friday as investors cashed in on a disappointing set of annual results.

Shares in Veolia Environnement (nyse: VE - news - people ) fell 9.9%, or 5.46 euros ($8.38), to 49.50 euros ($75.93), during morning trading in Paris on Friday. Rival Suez (nyse: SZE - news - people ) slipped 1.1%, to 40.83 euros ($62.63), in Paris.

Veolia Environnement said annual net income had risen 22.3% in 2007, to 927.9 million euros ($1.4 billion), from 2006. The environmental-services firm said this result proved that its geographic exposure and diversified business mix had weathered worsening macroeconomic conditions, but analysts were hoping for a profit figure closer to 948 million euros ($1.5 billion).

"The main issue is that they have not achieved what analysts were expecting," said Sebastian Zank, analyst with WestLB Research. He told Forbes.com that the results themselves were solid, but he believed that many analysts would be revising their estimates going forward.

"The main disappointment for us was the energy division," said Citigroup analyst Peter Atherton, adding that the business missed operating profit expectations by 8%. "Although the first half of 2007 had been weak due to unfavorable weather conditions, we were expecting a stronger second half."

Veolia Energy reported a 1.8% increase in operating income for the year at constant currencies, to 388.2 million euros ($595.0 million), by far the weakest growth of all of Veolia's divisions. "Operating income was impacted by the mild weather in the first months of the year in Europe," said Veolia, "as well as by the smaller contribution from sales of excess carbon-dioxide emission rights."

Veolia Environnement has long been seen as a defensive environmental play, with operations in water management, waste management, energy and transport. The company's emerging-market exposure, including contracts in China, Africa and the Middle East, also suggest an ability to offset a potential decline in investment in the West. (See "Ways To Play Water")

But the stock's obvious qualities have led to a high valuation premium relative to the utilities sector. WestLB Research's Zank said the premium was currently 42%, whereas a figure closer to 30% would be more sufficient.

Veolia Chief Executive Henri Proglio said that the company aimed to achieve growth of at least 10% in sales, cash flow and profits in 2008, "despite a more challenging economic environment." But these ambitious targets may not have been enough to keep investors on board.

Veolia's finance director, Jerome Contamine, said Veolia would invest at least 5 billion euros ($7.7 billion) in growth for 2008, compared with 6.9 billion euros ($10.6 billion) in 2007. He said the firm had a low exposure to the weak U.S. dollar, adding that 70% of Veolia's sales were generated in euros.


(Forbes.com)(Thomson Financial contributed to this article).

m.t.glass
07/3/2008
15:42
Interesting thread. There is a piece on cnbc now on water
qackers
07/3/2008
15:41
Thanks Henry. That link - despite the iH2o specific suffix - brings up the iShares home page. But I will add it up top with directions. May not be today though.
m.t.glass
07/3/2008
15:21
MT - been researching ETF's and came across this ishares iH20 link. There is a factsheet file that can be downloaded giving details of the funds make up. Hope it may be of use.
henryatkin
28/2/2008
16:53
Palisades Water Index (ZWI)

The Palisades Water Index is a modified equal-dollar weighted index comprised of U.S. exchange-traded companies engaged in the global water industry. The Index includes companies that are well-positioned to benefit from the inevitable increase in the value of water as the demands of the global population adjust to the inter-relationships between human health, economic development, ecological sustainability. The ZWI index was established with a base value of 1000.00 at the close on December 31, 2003.


Index Components as of: 02/27/08

Company Name (Symbol) % Weighting

Lindsay Manufacturing Co. (LNN) 4.04%
Itron Inc (ITRI) 3.96%
Calgon Carbon (CCC) 3.85%
Veolia Environnement (VE) 3.83%
Itt Indus (ITT) 3.68%
Pall Corp (PLL) 3.68%
Ameron International Corp (AMN) 3.66%
N.A. (ACM) 3.65%
Millipore Corp (MIL) 3.59%
Pentair, Inc (PNR) 3.59%
Badger Meter (BMI) 3.58%
Agilent Technologies A 3.52%
Nalco Holding Co. (NLC) 3.51%
Danaher Corp (DHR) 3.49%
Valmont Industries Inc. (VMI) 3.38%
Tetra Tech (TTEK) 3.26%
Emerson Electric (EMR) 3.03%
Genl Electric (GE) 2.98%
Urs Corp (URS) 2.89%
Siemens Ag Ads (SI) 2.88%
Insituform Technol'a' (INSU) 2.87%
Roper Indus (ROP) 2.85%
Watts Water Technologies'a' WTS 2.81%
Gorman-Rupp (GRC) 2.74%
Idex Corp (IEX) 2.65%
Mueller Water Products Inc (MWA) 2.55%
Franklin Electric (FELE) 2.49%
Layne Christensen Co. (LAYN) 2.33%
Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo (SBS) 1.37%
Calif Water Svc Grp (CWT) 1.32%
Aqua America (WTR) 1.30%
Southwest Water Co. (SWWC) 1.26%
Consolidated Water Co. Inc. (CWCO) 1.20%
Amer States Water (AWR) 1.14%
Sjw Corp (SJW) 1.09%

m.t.glass
28/2/2008
16:49
This from a US article last summer:

"..there are three water related ETFs on the market: PowerShares Water Resources Portfolio (ASE: PHO), First Trust ISE Water Index Fund (ASE: FIW) and the Claymore S&P Global Water ETF (ASE: CGW)..."

m.t.glass
28/2/2008
16:18
Have now started listing stocks in Post No 2 via a link at the foot of the header.
m.t.glass
28/2/2008
16:11
April 2007 -- re CHINA

"..While investors throw money at any stocks remotely associated with China, they have overlooked the most basic requirement for sustainable growth of the Chinese economy: adequate water and sanitation facilities. China has more than 20% of the world's population and only 7% of its water. Per-capita water reserves are only about one-fourth of the global average. Of China's 669 cities, 440 regularly suffer moderate to critical water shortages and most have no centralized sewage treatment facilities. Half of the rivers and lakes and one-third of the aquifers are classified as polluted. The mighty Yangtze River is now a shadow of its former self -- absorbing nearly half of the country's (untreated) waste water.

China has become dependent on grain imports from the West directly as a result of its water shortages. The Chinese government is pumping over $128 billion into water related investments between now and 2010. Companies that can help solve the massive water problems in China are set to make a mint..."


(seekingalpha.com)

m.t.glass
28/2/2008
16:07
How about HYD -good thread.
davebowler
28/2/2008
15:21
Thanks. Keep them coming. I will begin displaying them in a header-linked list this weekend. Including links to Praipus threads.
m.t.glass
28/2/2008
14:12
The four shares that are related to water purification are below.

Country & Currency Company Invested Value Now
Nov. 2006
France EUR Seche Environnement
Denmark DKK Novozymes
Japan JPY Kurita Water Industr.
Singapore SGD Hyflux Ltd

sheeneqa
28/2/2008
13:56
Hi M.T.

AFS is a UK listed water share.

I don't think it is of a high quality but the shares have been running up recently.

simon gordon
28/2/2008
13:47
"..The ABN AMRO Water Index Total Return Certificate tracks the performance of a dynamic index of stocks of companies with at least 45% turnover derived from water related business.."
m.t.glass
28/2/2008
13:42
NEW YORK -- The International Securities Exchange (NYSE:ISE) announced.. that it is launching the ISE-B&S Water Index (Ticker: HHO), a new sector index option and benchmark for this emerging industry which was developed with Boenning & Scattergood (B&S), one of the oldest, independently operated securities firms headquartered in the Mid-Atlantic region.

The ISE-B&S Water Index was developed in response to growing interest in water as a scarce resource and comprises companies in the water infrastructure, filtration, distribution, purification and treatment industries. The index currently contains 20 stocks that trade in the U.S. market,...

m.t.glass
28/2/2008
13:36
Water Indexes

ABN AMRO Water Index
Bloomberg World Water Index
Dow Jones U.S. Water Index (DJUSWU)
ISE-B&S Water Index (HHO)
MSCI World Water Index
Palisades Water Index (ZWI)
Palisades Global Water Index (PIIWI)
S&P 1500 Water Utilities Index
S&P Custom/ABN AMRO Total Return Water Index


Water ETFs

PowerShares Water Resources Portfolio (PHO)
PowerShares Global Water Portfolio (PIO)
Claymore S&P Global Water (CGW)
First Trust ISE Water Index Fund (FIW)


(source - WaterWorld, Sept 2007)

m.t.glass
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