Cayman Water Company (CWC) Ltd will host the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce’s Business After Hours on Thursday, 29th August,2013 at the Abel Castillo Water Works Plant, Peninsula Way, Governors Harbour, just off the Esterley Tibbett’s Highway.

The event is to celebrate CWC’s 40th anniversary and will commence at 5:30pm and finish at 7:30pm.

Only Chamber members are invited to attend.

Business After Hours is open to Chamber members only and offers professional men and women a chance to network and develop new business contacts, showcase products and services and meet Chamber board members. The Chamber encourages members to bring their business cards and be ready to learn something new about hosting member business. Children are not permitted

Rick McTaggart, President and CEO of CWC said, “We are very pleased to have the opportunity to host the Business After Hours event on 29 August at the Abel Castillo Water Works, the site of Cayman Water’s original desalting equipment which was installed 40 years ago this month. Cayman Water and its international subsidiaries continue to be on the cutting-edge of desalination technology, having developed some of the most energy efficient desalination plants in the World, and I look forward to showing the public how seawater is transformed into high-quality drinking water.

“Of course we never would have reached this significant milestone without the foresight of Cayman Water’s founders, Clarence Flowers Sr., Phil Lustig and Bill Parkhurst, who recognised that Cayman’s budding tourist industry on the Seven Mile Beach needed an affordable, reliable and high quality drinking water supply to grow and flourish.”

Since 1973 Cayman Water has been supplying drinking water on Grand Cayman. The company initially began providing water and sewerage services to the Governor’s Harbour residential development and gradually expanded its operations to fully service the Seven Mile Beach and West Bay. The company supplies drinking water on Grand Cayman through a franchise agreement with the government for these areas, and also supplies bulk desalinated water to the Water Authority Cayman from three highly advanced seawater desalination plants in George Town and Frank Sound.

Cayman Water has grown internationally and now supplies desalinated water in the Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, and most recently, Bali, Indonesia. The company has also built and operated plants in Barbados and Bermuda, and is currently developing a mega-plant in Baja California, Mexico which will ultimately supply water to Northwest Mexico and Southern California.

Cayman Water’s other anniversary activities will include friendly 25km and 10 km bicycle rides on 31 August starting at 6:30 a.m. at the Abel Castillo Water Works