Montevideo Waterworks Company
The Montevideo Waterworks Company, Ltd. was a British company, operating in Montevideo, Uruguay.  Organized in 1879, its offices were at 61 Moorgate, London, England. The company was founded to take over a concession granted by the government of Uruguay for the construction of the necessary works for supplying the city with water derived from the Santa Lucía River. The point on that river at which the water was taken was  from the city, and after being treated with aluminoferric salt, the water was filtered and pumped through a steel main to the service reservoirs, , on a rocky eminence at Las Piedras, at an elevation of about  above the city. The company served nearly 35,000 houses, with the daily consumption averaging  per capita. There were six settling reservoirs, nine sand filters, two reservoirs, and five distributing reservoirs. The total extent of water mains was about . The company assets were sold to the Uruguayan government in 1948.

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Renewable resource companies established in 1879
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1879 establishments in Uruguay
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Renewable resource companies disestablished in 1948
British companies established in 1879