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Strategies & Market Trends : Mr. Pink's Picks: selected event-driven value investments

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To: Bear Down who wrote (18282)12/11/2005 4:51:45 PM
From: dimez2dollarz  Read Replies (2) of 18998
 
Esyy water ipo i like my opinion
Wow bear down, i guess you had a bad child hood or something

Some facts i found

_Global water consumption rose sixfold between 1900 and 1995—more than double the rate of population growth—and continues to grow rapidly as agricultural, industrial, and domestic demand increases (WMO 1997:9).

• New estimates of water scarcity calculated by the World Resources Institute in collaboration with the University of New Hampshire show that some 41 percent of the world's population, or 2.3 billion people, live in river basins under "water stress,"

More than 50% of Americans drink bottled water

• From 1988 to 1998, the sales of bottled water tripled to about 4 billion annually, according to the Beverage Marketing Association (LA Times, 4/23/98

How much water do people drink? Nestle Waters North America, Inc.’s revenues jumped from $1 billion in 1997 to $2.6 billion by 2003, only 30% of the market, over $8 Billion dollar industry.
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