Palisades Water Index
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The Palisades Water Index (ZWI) is a modified equal-dollar weighted stock market index. It is designed to track the performance of companies engaged in the global water industry such as pump and filter manufacturers, water utilities, and irrigation equipment manufacturers. The index was set at 1000 as of December 31, 2003.
As of February 2006, the components of the index included the following companies:
- Calgon Carbon Corporation NYSE: CCC 4.91% (filtration)
- Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. NASDAQ: CWCO 4.37% (water utility)
- Insituform Technologies Inc. NASDAQ: INSU 4.34% (pipeline installation and repair)
- Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo NYSE: SBS 4.26% (water and wastewater utility)
- Pentair, Inc NYSE: PNR 4.24% (pumps, motors, filtration, water tanks)
- Southwest Water Co. NASDAQ: SWWC 4.13%
- California Water Svc Grp NYSE: CWT 4.08%
- Pall Corporation NYSE: PLL 4.07% (filtration)
- Watts Water Technologies 'a' NYSE: WTS 3.97% (valves)
- Amer States Water NYSE: AWR 3.93%
- Aqua America NYSE: WTR 3.92%
- Millipore Corporation NYSE: MIL 3.87% (filtration)
- United Utilities PLC NYSE: UU 3.86%
- ITT Industries NYSE: ITT 3.82% (pumps)
- Franklin Electric NASDAQ: FELE 3.80% (pumps and motors)
- Nalco Holding Co. NYSE: NLC 3.55%
- Layne Christensen Co. NASDAQ: LAYN 3.49%
- Danaher Corp NYSE: DHR 3.16%
- Idexx Laboratories NASDAQ: IDXX 3.14%
- Lindsay Manufacturing Co. NYSE: LNN 2.51% (center pivot irrigation systems)
- Badger Meter AMEX: BMI 2.41% (flowmeters)
- Synagro Tech NASDAQ: SYGR 2.21%
- Veolia Environnement NYSE: VE 2.18%
- Tetra Tech NASDAQ: TTEK 2.13%
- Urs Corp NYSE: URS 2.09%
- Valmont Industries Inc. NYSE: VMI 2.05% (center pivot irrigation systems)
- Itron Inc NASDAQ: ITRI 1.16%
- Flowserve Corp NYSE: FLS 1.08% (pumps)
- SUEZ-ADR NYSE: SZE 0.98%
- Ashland, Inc. NYSE: ASH 0.96%
- Idex Corp NYSE: IEX 0.96%
- Roper Industries NYSE: ROP 0.93% (appliances, pumps, industrial controls)
- Emerson Electric NYSE: EMR 0.92% (pump motors and flowmeters)
- Siemens AG Ads NYSE: SI 0.90%
- General Electric NYSE: GE 0.81% (appliances, motors)
- 3M Co. NYSE: MMM
The PowerShares Water Resources Fund (PHO) is based off of this index.