Chapter 354 Impossible Condition
Sure enough, during the final bidding, a representative from Umbrella arrived at the scene, which immediately aroused a flurry of whispers.
This time, Mexico’s water system bidding is not purely based on the highest bidder, but requires detailed planning and commitment.
At the same time, a cap on water prices was imposed.
In the past, water companies could directly use the original contract and existing assets as the basis for bidding.
Several water companies in Mexico have also received briefings and information in advance at this time, and have already met and reached a certain consensus.
You have to fight, but Umbrella is not easy to offend. Most of the first quotations and plans are a kind of trial, which will leave a lot of room for discussion, and will also give a second opportunity for negotiation.
Before that, all we need to do is meet and discuss things together.
Anyway, what is being squeezed out is the interests of the Mexican people here. Whoever makes a profit will make a profit. You can't lose money, right...
The preparation materials of all parties are complete, and the same is true for the quotation.
Because it has been in operation for so many years, it can be said that the first plans proposed by these water oligarchs are all similar.
To some extent, they have made certain price reductions and profit concessions, and have put forward their own technical advantages, factory advantages, employee advantages, etc.
and found out the reason for the high water prices.
"It's not that we want to maintain this kind of water price, but now that the environment in Mexico is deteriorating and costs are rising, we have to do this. The specific cost estimates are also in the data..."
Kauri said to a reporter who came in at the scene in a regretful and helpless tone.
The impact this time was too great. With such a big move, reporters were naturally allowed in, and some representatives of the demonstrations were also here.
After all, to some extent, Mexican officials had forcibly interfered with the already concluded contract, and they had to find a reasonable excuse.
Safety, people's livelihood, and the representatives present can allocate enough pressure for them.
"So what do President Kaori think about Umbrella's entry? You can see that many representatives at the scene are very excited and seem to believe in Umbrella."
The reporters were just watching the excitement and asking serious questions.
This made Kaori curse in his heart and say with a smile
"Umbrella is a great company. The current security our company enjoys today is all related to Umbrella. We all like them."
He complimented him first and then continued
"However, there are specialties in the industry. Umbrella has no experience in water affairs at all. If they want to join the game, it may be better to start with some simple places first. Our environment in Mexico has seriously deteriorated and water resources are depleted. Groundwater pollution is very difficult and challenging. This technical threshold cannot be reached in a short time. Even if they eventually acquire all our factories, water pipes, and machines, they will not be able to do better than us..."
Because the target was Umbrella, Kaori's words remained quite restrained and polite.
If this were any other little Karami, he would probably have ridiculed her directly in front of the camera.
Do you know what you are facing?
The world's top water company!
In a water-scarce environment like Mexico, we are the professionals!
This time it can be said that the entire event was broadcast live, and Kauri's words reached many people's ears.
Although many people in Mexico now have a sense of blind worship for Umbrella, but what Kauri said here is that this is indeed reality!
The earth is a planet covered by water, and Mexico is surrounded by seas. However, the actual fresh water that can be used is quite scarce.
Yes, there are means of desalination.
But even those oil guys in the Middle East cannot rely solely on desalination to maintain water supplies! Cost and efficiency are both here!
If you are alone, you can survive by relying on some distillation equipment or building a small desalination device.
However, for a country's consumption that requires this kind of production capacity and this quantity, the overall cost and demand are too high.
Fortunately, the environment in Mexico is much better than that in the Middle East, and it still has lakes and reservoirs.
However, in recent years, due to environmental deterioration, these water resources have been rapidly depleted.
In addition, the sewage deliberately not treated by the water company polluted the groundwater, making the already tight water source even more scarce!
Water outages have become a common occurrence in some slums, especially during drought periods. They can only survive by relying on water trucks to transport some yellow water.
However, some of their beverage manufacturers own private wells and rely on higher technology to occupy clean groundwater.
Correspondingly, the same is true for some companies controlled by Western capital.
Moreover, they are indeed more experienced in all aspects of water source dispatching and arrangement.
Unless Umbrella spends all their money and takes all their private resources, it will be impossible to maintain operations, and the supply will even be worse than it is now!
The number of resources itself is here. You can't appear out of thin air. It doesn't mean that it will be useful just by throwing money at it.
So what if you give money to lower the water price to one cent? Where did you get so much water?
By then, the humanitarian crisis caused by water shortage is no joke!
This is why they are so confident.
Forcibly take back their private well?
Not to mention how bad it is to do this, I am really worried. The well has collapsed and the price of water will continue to skyrocket!
At that time, it won’t be about their pricing, but people who have no water to drink will raise the price until they can’t afford it...
It’s not like they have never done this before, this is a game of capital!
For example, Mexico's Aca Continental Group is the second largest producer and distributor of Coca-Cola in Latin America and also has a large number of private wells.
But even when there was a drought and Mexican officials called on beverage factories to suspend production, they remained indifferent and would never part with the water from their private wells. If you want water, you can just buy our Coke!
This is the cost of resources related to people's livelihood being completely controlled by capital.
The bitter pill I swallowed after being deceived in the first place.
Even when encountering such droughts and natural disasters, it is actually a time for capital to harvest wildly, which is no different from the land annexation in ancient times.
There is nothing new under the sun, only replicas with new skins.
The more natural and man-made disasters occur, the more likely the capital of top players will expand in reverse and faster...
But then, Mexican officials successively released many commitments and quotations from several major companies.
The previous established companies have indeed reduced prices to a certain extent and made some commitments, and their quotations are based on their previous shares in the contract.
It is equivalent to simply reducing some profits and unit prices to give an explanation for this crisis.
If it is normal, this is actually enough.
After all, the facts are here, and there is nothing they can do about it!
But with the subsequent announcement of Umbrella.
The scene suddenly erupted into an uproar!
Promise that residents of Mexico City will receive 15 pesos per ton of water!
The water quality is guaranteed to be drinking water level, it’s enough!
Calculating this, the price is less than a dollar!
It also ensures a gradual increase in production and will be able to supply sufficient quantities of water within half a year, including even industrial water!
Due to water shortage in Mexico, factories have quotas for water use and will not be provided if it exceeds the limit.
This is such a big promise! Even unrealistic!
"This is impossible!"
"You will definitely lose money."
"And how can there be so much production? Water cannot appear out of thin air!"
"How do you pump out so much contaminated groundwater!"
Even if Mexico, the parallel world next door, bought back its own water service at the beginning of the new century, due to the overall harsh environment, the national average water price is still US$0.007 per gallon, which is equivalent to nearly two US dollars per ton. This is an average and there are government subsidies. case!
In this world where private companies still want to make profits, water prices will naturally be much higher.
In some water-scarce areas, the cost is far more than that. Plus transportation, dispatching, and operation, isn’t it true that you lose as much as you sell?
And the question is where does the water come from?
Desalination? Can the desalination efficiency keep up with the needs of such a large population in Mexico?
————Second update~
(End of chapter)