Australia

Boil-Water Alerts in Australia's Largest Metropolis
2/14/2003 - For two months in 1998, more than 3 million residents of Sydney were forced to boil their drinking water to kill parasites. While blame for the contamination was never established, a government-commissioned probe showed that a private water company's operational practices had risked the safety of the water supply, and critics accused the company of cost-cutting. Both claims were denied by the company, Australian Water Services, a consortium of the French utility Suez and Australian real esta... 

The Big Pong Down Under
Fifteen months after Adelaide signed a contract turning over its waterworks to a private consortium controlled by Thames Water and Vivendi, the city was engulfed in a powerful sewage smell, which became known as “the big pong.’’