ABSTRACT
This chapter compares and evaluates the logics of sustainable governance in the water companies in Denmark with privatized companies in the UK, the US and South Africa. It also presents an empirically induced account of how sustainable governance is perceived and conceptualized as logic among practitioners in the water sector through their textual discourses in corporate reports and websites. The chapter explains that in the case of Denmark the empirical material is based upon interviews and participant-observation studies. This material is then compared to discourses in corporate texts from water companies' Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports and other public documents from websites from seven other water companies from the UK, the US and South Africa respectively. British water companies have existed since the late 1980s and have been economically regulated due to price cap mechanisms since then. The water companies in South Africa are met with many sustainable governance or CSR obligations and normative incentives from their regulators.
