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Public-private Partnerships:<br />
Exploring Synergies in the U.S. and Canadian <strong>Water</strong> Markets<br />
By Bob Bailey and Peter Nicol<br />
Public-private partnerships (P3s) in the water sector are used increasingly as<br />
a means for addressing infrastructure around the globe. In fact, government<br />
agencies have been created in the United Kingdom, Australia, across Europe<br />
and in Canada to support various forms of P3 implementation. Currently,<br />
Canada is seeing particularly strong growth in P3s. While P3s have been<br />
implemented in Canada for years, in 2009 the federal government created a<br />
the $1.25 billion P3 Canada Fund, which has contributed to increased use of<br />
P3s for infrastructure delivery. To date, the Canadian P3 model has been<br />
used for successful delivery of many health care, transportation, transit and<br />
building projects, and several water P3s are in the planning stage.<br />
32 <strong>Water</strong> <strong>Utility</strong> <strong>Infrastructure</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />
November/December 2011