<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a63977eb-5487-4a7f-8e50-767cc3c23ce0/EE92BF45-6A43-4240-AF22-6F59759C5291/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.arabianbusiness.com/560610?tmpl=print&page=" href="http://www.arabianbusiness.com/560610?tmpl=print&page=" style="font-size: 11px;">www.arabianbusiness.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.arabianbusiness.com/560610?tmpl=print&page="><H1>Some GCC water treatment projects 'could be shelved'</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.arabianbusiness.com/560610?tmpl=print&page="><P><DIV> <STRONG>The market for water and wastewater treatment equipment in GCC has slowed during the global financial crisis with some projects likely to be postponed, a new report has said. </STRONG></DIV><BR /><DIV>While Gulf nations experienced rapid growth during 2008 driven by huge investments in infrastructure, real estate, petrochemicals, oil and gas and other sectors, the impact of the crisis has "changed the business climate and there was a considerable decline in demand for most commodities", according to Frost & Sullivan. </DIV><BR />The company said the decline in crude oil prices made investors wary of funding new projects. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.arabianbusiness.com/560610?tmpl=print&page="><SPAN class="small grey"> by <A href="mailto:andrew.sambidge@itp.com?subject=ArabianBusiness.com: Some GCC water treatment projects 'could be shelved'">Andy Sambidge</A><SPAN>This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it </SPAN> on Wednesday, 01 July 2009</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EE92BF45-6A43-4240-AF22-6F59759C5291/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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