organization:ministry of water

Water bottler sets sights on growing Cambodian market

A $2 million company hopes to cash in on the growing local bottled market by using modern technology and local natural resources.

A NEW player in Cambodia’s purified drinking water market has seen early signs of success with a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant and production facility in #Kampot province, and expects to distribute nationwide in 2009, the company said.

#TADA_Bokor Natural Spring Drinking Water began operations in early November with a US$2 million capital investment from the T-DA Import Export Co Ltd, which distributes the brand in Kampot province, Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh.

Company owner and first deputy president of Cambodia’s National Committee for Disaster Management, Nhim Vanda, said TADA Bokor was licensed by the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy in 2006 following a study conducted with foreign partners to determine the suitability of mineral water from Kampot province’s Bokor mountain.

A bottling factory was built at the base of the mountain in Makprang district, Nhim Vanda said.

“Our factory was built to rigid technical standards and equipped with the latest technology imported from abroad to meet all hygiene requirements,” he said.

“We have been evaluated by our national laboratory at the Ministry of Industry and the Pasteur Institute of Cambodia at the Ministry of Water Management, as well as by consultants from South Korea.”

Nhim Vanda said the company also manufactures its own plastic bottles and has taken steps not to adversely affect the province’s natural environment, which has become the focus of nascent efforts to create an ecotourism industry in the Kingdom.

OUR FACTORY WAS BUILT TO RIGID TECHNICAL STANDARDS ... [WITH] THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY.

TADA Bokor employs 35 workers and produces an estimated 1,200 to 1,500 cases of water each day.

“We purify the natural spring drinking water through reverse osmosis and ozone processes, as well as ultraviolet purification technology, to make it better than other brands,” he said.

“I will enlarge our distribution to other provinces nationwide next year,” he said.

Chheng Uddra, bureau chief of the Product Licensing Department at the Ministry of Industry, said TADA Bokor has complied with all ministry regulations and requirements.

“I have sent my experts last month to check the quality of the water, the bottling and the factory to ensure it was built to proper standards,” he said.

There are more than 130 pure drinking water companies operating in Cambodia, but only 20-including TADA Bokor-operate within health parameters set by the government, Chheng Uddra said.

He added that because the ministry has not always implemented existing laws, it imposes three-month evaluations on companies to test the quality of the water.

If standards are not being met, then companies risk losing their license, Chheng Uddra said.

▻https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/water-bottler-sets-sights-growing-cambodian-market
#eau_en_bouteilles #eau #privatisation #Cambodge

Un article de 2008, que je mets ici pour archivage...

@simplicissimus: en lien avec le post sur le #Bokor, dont je viens de terminer un petit texte:
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/715554

The #Corruption Revealed in the #Panama_Papers Opened the Door to #Isis
▻http://www.unz.com/pcockburn/the-corruption-revealed-in-the-panama-papers-opened-the-door-to-isis

Three years ago I was in Baghdad after it had rained heavily, driving for miles through streets that had disappeared under grey-coloured flood water combined with raw sewage. Later I asked Shirouk Abayachi, an advisor to the Ministry of Water Resources, why this was happening and she said that “since 2003, $7bn has been spent to build a new sewage system for Baghdad, but either the sewers weren’t built or they were built very badly”. She concluded that “corruption is the key to all this”.

Anybody discussing the Panama Papers and the practices of the law firm Mossack Fonseca should think about the ultimate destination of the $7bn not spent on the Baghdad drainage system. There will be many go-betweens and middle men protecting anyone who profited from this huge sum, but the suspicion must be that a proportion of it will have ended up in offshore financial centres where money is hidden and can be turned into legally held assets.

There is no obvious link between the revelations in the Panama Papers, the rise of Islamic State and the wars tearing apart at least nine countries in the Middle East and North Africa. But these three developments are intimately connected as ruling elites, who syphon off wealth into tax havens and foreign property, lose political credibility. No ordinary Afghans, Iraqis and Syrians will fight and die for rulers they detest as swindlers. Crucial to the rise of Isis, al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan is not their own strength and popularity, but the weakness and unpopularity of the governments to which they are opposed.

Kipling was right in believing that there has always been corruption, but since the early 1990s corrupt states have often mutated into kleptocracies. Ruling families and the narrow coteries around them have taken a larger and larger share of the economic cake.”

“#Élites” #kleptocraties

Jordan : Water demand to increase by 16% in 2013 — ministry
▻http://jordantimes.com/water-demand-to-increase-by-16-in-2013----ministry

The rise in demand for water is slightly due to economic and agricultural factors, Ministry of Water and Irrigation Spokesperson Omar Salameh said, stressing that the influx of Syrian refugees into the Kingdom played a major role.

“The average annual rise in water demand in Jordan is around 6 per cent, while the water deficit usually ranges around 400mcm. This year, demand has almost tripled to 16 per cent and the deficit will reach a record 600mcm,” he told The Jordan Times over the phone.

So far, demand for water has exceeded 1.1 billion cubic metres, Salameh said, noting that as demand for water has increased, water per capita in the northern and central regions has dropped by 50 per cent this year.

“The country’s population has swelled by around 20 per cent this year, as more Syrian refugees are arriving in the country. Pressure over water networks and available resources is magnifying,” the ministry’s spokesperson noted.

Sur le même sujet, un autre article plus détaillé : ▻http://jordantimes.com/authorities-brace-for-unprecedented-water-demand-in-summer-across-jorda
#Jordanie
#Syrie
#réfugiés
#eau

Water shortages driving growing thefts, conflicts in #Kenya - AlertNet
►http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/water-shortages-driving-growing-thefts-conflicts-in-kenya

NAIROBI (AlertNet) – As droughts become more frequent and water shortages worsen, Kenya is seeing an increase in water thefts and other water-related crime, police records show.

The most common crimes are theft, muggings and illegal disconnections of water pipes by thieves who collect and sell the water. Many of the crimes occur in urban slums, which lack sufficient piped water.

“Since 2003, we have made piped water available to at least half of the slum residents in the entire country, but we are faced with severe hurdles as populations continue to grow and demand for the commodity continues to increase,” said Peter Mangich, acting director of water services in the Ministry of Water

#eau #bidonvilles