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Asia

BEWG ramps up M&A in China as global growth slows: M&A in China and wastewater reuse upgrades are key to Beijing Enterprise's strategy to reach its 2018 targets. Facing overseas project setbacks, the company has opted to be aggressive at home and conservative abroad. COO Zhou Min talks to GWI.

Middle East & North Africa

Rwanda extends PPP hopes to the hinterlands: Kigali scored a coup last year with one of the most high-profile PPP deals on the continent, supplying water to the capital city. Plans to wield private finance in order to expand water supply to rural areas could prove to be a harder sell.

Americas

Peruvian government pushes PSP in municipal water: The authorities in Peru are looking to place increasing reliance on the private sector in order to achieve universal water and wastewater coverage by 2030.

Europe

Spanish water sector reels under new corruption scandal: Allegations of corrupt practices in the awarding of key infrastructure contracts have resulted in the arrest of several key figures in the Spanish private water industry.