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Water Industry Database Methodology Team

France

PARIS, February 4, 2003 — France is the birthplace of modern water privatization, but its leading companies have been rocked by scandals and allegations of influence-peddling. >>

Defending the Internal Water Empire

PARIS, February 4, 2003 — While peddling the benefits of free-market privatization abroad, France carefully guards its own borders against foreign companies, claiming water is too important to be controlled by outsiders. >>

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