Spectator Business

Thirst is a threat – and a business opportunity

Elliot Wilson

Elliot Wilson says that scarcity of clean water will soon be as big an economic issue as scarcity of carbon fuel, and explores how global corporations such as Coca-Cola are addressing it

Unloved but worth holding

Alex Brummer

Consumers may be irritated by the performance of water utilities, says Alex Brummer, but their solidity and growth potential make them sound investments

Science of supply and demand

Janice Warman

Janice Warman talks to British entrepreneurs who are developing innovative solutions to address water shortages around the world and reduce water consumption at home

Opening the tap of private capital

Katrina Manson

Katrina Manson looks at the mixed record of international companies in projects to improve water supply for some of the world’s poorest countries

Wall St Watch

Oversexed, over-stressed, overpaid: the road to hell for hedgies and traders

Felix Salmon

Comment

After the bail-out – a wish list for a brave new world of better banking

Spectator Business Diary

Free markets are dead. Long live New Capitalism

Fraser Nelson

United States needs divided government

James Forsyth

In The City

Chris Blackhurst

Counterpoint

Globalisation got us into this mess

Neil Collins

Features

A parable of management folly

Matthew Lynn

Strategist

Need to Know

Need To Know

Laura Staples

Bankers behaving badly: the politicians’ view

Martin Vander Weyer

Martin Vander Weyer talks to Conservative shadow business minister Alan Duncan and LibDem deputy leader Vince Cable about City excess – and whether more intrusive regulation is the only cure

Putting the brakes on the gravy train

Lisa Buckingham

Stratospheric bonuses have fuelled excessive City risk-taking, but the remedy lies firmly in the hands of institutional shareholders as well as regulators