Paris Water public at the end of 2009
When the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë was relected in March 2008, the vote gave him a mandate to return Paris’ water services to a public-run service. The electoral promise came after a broad campaign, triggered by rising prices, and following his re-election, the Mayor’s office announced in June 2008 that the remunicipalisation would go ahead. Water services in Paris, privatised in 1985, will be run as a single public-owned and managed company, Eau de Paris, from 2009. Read more