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Teleconference: U.S. Water & Sewer Utilities April 15 at 2 p.m. EDT
Fitch Ratings will hold a teleconference to discuss Fitch's municipal
water and sewer utilities in the U.S., an extremely creditworthy debt
sector with virtually no default history during the past quarter century.
Press Release_ 4/13/04
Fitch rates Garland, Texas $77.5 million water and sewer revenue bonds 'AA'
The Rating Outlook is Stable. Press Release_ 4/13/04
March, 2004
The rating reflects the Imperial Irrigation District water system's essential role as the major recipient and holder of California's share of Colorado River water. Press Release/Business Wire 3/22/04
December, 2003
Fitch rates Utah's Mountain Regional Special Service Water District $33 million bonds 'BBB.' Business Wire 12/16/03
Moody's downgrades Atlanta's water and sewer bonds to Baa1 from A2. Outlook negative. Actions affect $1.72 billion in Water and Sewer Revenue Bonds. Atlanta Business Chronicle 12/3/03
November, 2003
Moody's changes rating outlook of Southern California Water Co. and its parent American States Water Co. to negative from stable. Reuters 11/26/03
Moody's drops rating of SUEZ subsidiary United Waterworks Inc. from stable to negative. Reuters 11/26/03
Moody's reviews the ratings of American Water Capital Corp., for possible downgrade. American Water Capital is a subsidiary of American Water Works, which is owned by Germany's RWE AG. Reuters 11/26/03October, 2003
Fitch upgrades Mansfield, Texas $31.4 million water and wastewater revenue bonds to `AA-'. Business Wire 10/22/03
Fitch Ratings assigns 'A+' to Lehigh County, Pennsylvania authority's $3.9 million water bonds. Business Wire 10/13/03
Fitch rates $329.8 milion Massachusetts Water Abatement Trust bonds 'AAA.' Business Wire
Orange County, Florida's $122.7 million public service tax refunding and improvement revenue bonds get Fitch 'AA-' rating. Outlook stable. Business Wire
Dover, Delaware's $7.96 million water and sewer revenue refunding bonds rated 'A' by Fitch. Outlook stable. Business Wire
Renton, Washington's $8.2 million water and sewer bonds rated by Fitch at 'AA-.' Outlook stable.
Central Utah Water Conservancy District gets a Fitch 'AA' rating for its $9.1 million general obligation refunding bonds. Outlook stable. Business Wire
Stamford, Conn. water authority to issue bonds for first time. Rating is 'AAA' for the $12.8 million sewer bonds. The Advocate
Fitch rates Miami $275 million water and sewer bonds 'A+.' Outlook negative. Largest water utility in SE may face rate increases. Business Wire
Fitch rates New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority's $225 milion water and sewer revenue bonds 'AA'. Business Wire/Yahoo
Fitch rates Nassau County, Florida's approximately $18.5 million water and sewer system revenue bonds 'A-'. County took over in March from Florida Water Systems.
August
Fitch
Ratings assigns 'AA' rating to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California's approximately $105.6 million water revenue bonds.
Negotiated sale next week. Business Wire
The
Denver Board of Water Commissioners' planned sale of $77.2 million in
water revenue bonds, set for Sept. 10, gets "AA+" rating by
Fitch Ratings of San Francisco. Denver Business Journal
Northumbrian Water under pressure to improve its credit rating. Standard & Poors drops it two notches to triple B after takeover by a consortium of institutional investors. ITV.com
AA+ rating for Hillsborough, Ca. water bonds.
