A few local authorities still run their own water supply system, but they consider creating their own regional commercial utilities or to join existing ones.

At this time the current sector structure, consisting of regional commercial utilities and a national regulatory agency, gradually evolved.

The other was put together by a regional utility whose props consisted of a lectern, an easel and a cardboard poster.

It is the third time in six months that the company, a regional utility, has been sought by a potential bidder.

Eastern Electricity is the largest of Britain's 12 regional utilities, serving 2.9 million customers.

The station was later bought by a regional utility and linked to one of the first hydroelectric systems in the country.

They are to be privatized next year, as are the Scottish regional utilities.

Each regional utility covers between one and three of the country's 23 states.

Later, regional utilities were created and sold electric service to the factories.

However, regional utilities still did not have sufficient resources to expand wastewater treatment.