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Article: Wastewater project stalls as Cairo revises pricing model: government seeks to balance end user tariffs and operator incentives.(WATER: EGYPT)
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- MEED Middle East Economic Digest
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- October 3, 2008
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Talks on the New Cairo wastewater treatment project have stalled, with companies close to the project telling MEED that Cairo is having problems in finalising the pricing model under which the new plants will operate.
Companies selected to bid for the country's first ever public private partnership (PPP} scheme in the wastewater sector have been told by the Housing, Utilities & Urban Development Ministry that the scheme is facing delays.
However, the ministry has not given a mason for the delays, nor has it given a date when the process will be resumed.
A request for proposals had been due to be issued this mouth, but developers say there is ...