Cayman Islands

The history of Consolidated Water and the Cayman Islands are tightly intertwined. The Company was established in Grand Cayman in 1973, and the island is home to a large number of our plants as well as our corporate headquarters. The potable water supplied by our Company was integral to the development of the Cayman Islands as a tourist destination and international banking center. The Cayman Islands hold a unique place in our Company’s history and will continue to do so even as the we expand internationally.

The Company has been able to utilize its Cayman based operations to develop techniques and practices that have proven very successful in other markets, and to refine our processes into some of the most efficient in the world. The challenges of working in a fairly remote locale have required us to be creative. We operate a retail water utility that serves the Seven Mile Beach area of Grand Cayman, and we also produce water on a bulk basis for the other water utility on the island, the Water Authority-Cayman.

Our plants in the Cayman Islands display a diversity of techniques and approaches. Their efficiencies and longevity are testaments to the high quality of our operations.

GRAND CAYMAN, located 480 miles south of Miami, Florida, is one of the largest financial centers in the world with over $1.8 trillion on deposit in more than 250 banks. A British Overseas Territory, the Cayman Islands are comprised of three islands: Grand Cayman, the country’s capital and commercial center with approximately 56,000 residents, and the more sparsely populated “Sister Islands” of Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, located 80 miles to the northeast.

The other “economic engine” of the islands is tourism which in 2013 attracted approximately 1.7 million visitors to Cayman’s beautiful beaches, botanical gardens and wildlife, which include the blue iguana, an endangered species of lizard endemic to Grand Cayman. Consolidated Water ‘s corporate offices are located on the famous Seven Mile Beach, where the Company’s subsidiary, Cayman Water, has been providing drinking water since 1973 and operates one of the two water utilities on Grand Cayman Island. Consolidated Water ‘s other Cayman subsidiary, Ocean Conversion Cayman, provides drinking water to the other utility on Grand Cayman, the Water Authority-Cayman.