EDGAR 10-K Filing

Company CIK: 928340
Filing Year: 2025
Filename: 928340_10-K_2025_0001558370-25-003137.json

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ITEM 1. BUSINESS
ITEM 1.
BUSINESS
Overview
Through our subsidiaries and affiliate, we provide the following services to our customers in the Cayman Islands, The Bahamas, the United States and the British Virgin Islands:
● Retail Water Operations. We produce potable water from seawater utilizing reverse osmosis technology and supply this water to end-users, including residential, commercial and government customers in the Cayman Islands under an exclusive retail license issued by the Cayman Islands government to provide water in two of the three most populated areas on Grand Cayman. In 2024, our retail water operations generated approximately 24% of our consolidated revenue.
● Bulk Water Operations. We produce potable water from seawater utilizing reverse osmosis technology and supply this water to government-owned distributors in the Cayman Islands and The Bahamas. In 2024, our bulk water operations generated approximately 25% of our consolidated revenue.
● Services Operations. We design, construct and sell water production and water treatment plants, and we manage and operate water production plants, and water treatment and reuse infrastructure, for third parties. We also provide water related consulting services. In 2024, our services operations generated approximately 38% of our consolidated revenue.
● Manufacturing Operations. We manufacture and service a wide range of specialized and custom water-related products and systems applicable to commercial, municipal and industrial water production, supply and treatment. In 2024, our manufacturing operations generated approximately 13% of our consolidated revenue.
● Affiliate Operations. We own 50% of the voting rights and 43.53% of the equity rights of Ocean Conversion (BVI) Ltd., which produces and supplies bulk water to the British Virgin Islands Water and Sewerage Department.
As of December 31, 2024, the number of water production and water treatment plants we and our affiliate operated in each country, and the production capacities of these plants, were as follows:
Water Production Plant Location
Plants
Capacity(1)
Cayman Islands
10.6
Bahamas
14.8
British Virgin Islands
0.8
Total
26.2
(1)
In millions of gallons per day.
Water Treatment Plant Location
Plants
Capacity(1)
United States
58.0
(1)
In estimated millions of gallons per day.
In addition to the above plants, as of December 31, 2024, our wholly owned subsidiary, Ramey Environmental Compliance, Inc., performed operations, maintenance, and monitoring services for 64 wastewater and water treatment plants located in the Rocky Mountain and Eastern Plains Regions of Colorado.
Strategy
We are a comprehensive water solutions company that serves a variety of customers through multiple product and service offerings. Presently, we:
● produce and sell potable water through the design, construction and operation of water infrastructure that employs reverse osmosis technology to produce potable water from seawater;
● design, construct, sell, operate and manage water production, water treatment and water reuse infrastructure tailored to meet the regulatory, environmental and commercial requirements of our clients;
● fabricate/manufacture specialized and custom equipment and products employed in the production and treatment of water for municipal, commercial and industrial purposes; and
● provide water-related management and consulting services.
We expect to continue to expand and diversify our products, services and markets to meet the ever-expanding global demand for clean water.
Key elements of our strategy include:
Market expansion. We continue to seek to expand our existing operations in the markets we believe have significant unfulfilled demands for desalinated potable water, water treatment and reuse systems and our other products and services. These markets include the United States and the Caribbean. We may also pursue business in other markets where we believe we can be successful.
Complementary products, services and businesses. We continue to pursue acquisitions or joint ventures that (i) complement and enhance our existing businesses; (ii) expand our product and service offerings and markets; and (iii) support our objective to be a comprehensive water solutions provider.
Our Company
We conduct our operations in the Cayman Islands, The Bahamas, the United States, and the British Virgin Islands through our subsidiaries and our affiliate. Our corporate organizational structure as of December 31, 2024 is as follows:
Retail Segment
Cayman Water Company Limited (“Cayman Water”). Cayman Water operates under an exclusive retail license granted by the Cayman Islands government to provide water to customers within a prescribed service area on Grand Cayman that includes the Seven Mile Beach and West Bay areas, two of the three most populated areas in the Cayman Islands. Cayman Water owns and operates three seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants. Cayman Water and the Water Authority-Cayman (“WAC”), a government-owned utility and regulatory agency, are Grand Cayman’s only water utilities.
Bulk Segment
Consolidated Water (Bahamas) Limited (“CW-Bahamas”). We own 90.9% of CW-Bahamas, which provides bulk water under long-term contracts to the Water and Sewerage Corporation of The Bahamas (“WSC”), a government agency. CW-Bahamas owns and operates our largest desalination plant and one other desalination plant.
Ocean Conversion (Cayman) Limited (“OC-Cayman”). OC-Cayman provides bulk water under long-term contracts to the WAC, which distributes the water to properties located outside our exclusive retail license service area on Grand Cayman. OC-Cayman operates three seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants owned by the WAC.
Services Segment
PERC Water Corporation (“PERC”). In October 2019, we purchased, through our wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary, Consolidated Water U.S. Holdings, Inc. (“CW-Holdings”), 51% of the equity in PERC, a U.S. company headquartered in Fountain Valley, California. In August 2020, we purchased an additional 10% ownership interest of PERC, increasing our ownership of this subsidiary to 61%. In January 2023, we acquired the remaining 39% ownership interest in PERC. PERC designs, constructs, sells, operates and manages water, wastewater and water reuse infrastructure in the United States.
Ramey Environmental Compliance, Inc. (“REC”). Effective October 1, 2023, we purchased, through our wholly-owned subsidiary PERC, a 100% ownership interest in REC, a Colorado company headquartered in Frederick, Colorado. REC operates and maintains water and wastewater treatment facilities and provides technical services to clients throughout the Rocky Mountain and Eastern Plains Regions of Colorado.
DesalCo Limited (“DesalCo”). A Cayman Islands company, DesalCo provides design, management, engineering and construction services for desalination projects as well as management and engineering services relating to municipal water distribution and treatment. Serving as a subcontractor to OC-Cayman, DesalCo designed and constructed the four reverse osmosis plants that OC-Cayman currently operates for (and previously sold to) the WAC.
Kalaeloa Desalco LLC (“Kalaeloa Desalco”). In September 2021, Kalaeloa Desalco was formed to pursue a project encompassing the design, construction, operations and maintenance of a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Oahu, Hawaii. In June 2023, Kalaeloa Desalco signed a definitive agreement with the Honolulu Board of Water Supply to design, build, operate and maintain a 1.7 million gallons per day seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Oahu, Hawaii. Development of this plant is currently underway.
Manufacturing Segment
Aerex Industries, Inc. (“Aerex”). Aerex, a U.S. company located in Fort Pierce, Florida, is an original equipment manufacturer of a wide range of specialized and custom products and systems applicable to desalination, municipal water treatment and industrial water and wastewater treatment. Aerex’s products include reverse osmosis desalination equipment, membrane separation equipment, filtration equipment, piping systems, vessels and custom fabricated components. Aerex also offers engineering, design, consulting, inspection, training and equipment maintenance services to its customers.
Corporate
Aquilex, Inc. (“Aquilex”). Aquilex, a U.S. company located in Coral Springs, Florida, provides financial, engineering, information technology, administrative and supply chain management support services to all our subsidiaries and our affiliate. The expenses incurred by Aquilex to support the operations of our business segments, along with other various general and administrative expenses incurred by our company, are reported as “Corporate” in the segment information included in Item 7. Management’s Discussion of Results of Operations and in Note 14 of the notes to our consolidated financial statements.
Affiliate
Ocean Conversion (BVI) Ltd. (“OC-BVI”). We own 50% of the voting stock of OC-BVI, a British Virgin Islands company, which sells bulk water to the Government of the British Virgin Islands Water and Sewerage Department. We own an overall 43.53% equity interest in OC-BVI’s profits and certain profit-sharing rights that raise our effective interest in OC-BVI’s profits to approximately 45%. OC-BVI also pays our subsidiary, DesalCo, fees for certain engineering and administrative services. We account for our investment in OC-BVI under the equity method of accounting.
Discontinued Operations - Mexico Project Development
Consolidated Water Cooperatief, U.A. (“CW-Cooperatief”), N.S.C. Agua, S.A. de C.V. (“NSC”) and Aguas de Rosarito S.A.P.I. de C.V. (“AdR”). CW-Cooperatief is a wholly-owned Netherlands subsidiary incorporated in 2010. CW-Cooperatief owns 99.9% of NSC, a Mexican company. NSC owns 100% of AdR. NSC and AdR were formed to pursue a project encompassing the design, construction, ownership and operation of a 100 million gallon per day seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant which was to be located in northern Baja California, Mexico and accompanying pipeline to deliver water to the Mexican potable water system (the “Project”).
In August 2016, the Public Private Partnership Agreement for the Project (the “APP Contract”) was executed between AdR, the Comisión Estatal del Agua de Baja California (“CEA”), the Government of Baja California as represented by the Secretary of Planning and Finance and the Public Utilities Commission of Tijuana (“CESPT”).
In June 2020, the Director General of CEA and the Director General of CESPT terminated the APP Contract. As a result of the cancellation of the APP Contract, we discontinued all development activities associated with the Project and in June 2024 we sold the land NSC purchased for the Project. Accordingly, the assets and liabilities of CW-Cooperatief, NSC and AdR, as well as all expenses we incurred in connection with our international arbitration with the Mexico government to obtain reimbursement for the costs we incurred in connection with the Project are reported as discontinued operations in our consolidated financial statements. We are presently in the process of liquidating CW-Cooperatief, NSC and AdR.
Our Operations
For fiscal year 2024, our retail water, bulk water, services and manufacturing segments generated approximately 24%, 25%, 38% and 13%, respectively, of our consolidated revenue. For additional information about our business segments and geographical information about our operating revenue and long-lived assets, see Note 14 to our consolidated financial statements at ITEM 8 of this Annual Report.
Retail Water Operations
For fiscal years 2024, 2023, and 2022, our retail water operations accounted for approximately 24%, 17%, and 27%, respectively, of our consolidated revenue. This business produces and supplies potable water to end-users, including residential, commercial and government customers in the Cayman Islands.
We sell water through our retail operations under a license issued in July 1990 by the Cayman Islands government (the “1990 license”) that granted Cayman Water the exclusive right to provide potable water to customers within its licensed service area. Pursuant to the 1990 license, Cayman Water has the exclusive right to produce potable water and distribute
it by pipeline to its licensed service area, which consists of two of the three most populated areas of Grand Cayman: Seven Mile Beach and West Bay.
The 1990 license was originally scheduled to expire in July 2010 but was extended several times by the Cayman Islands government in order to provide the parties with additional time to negotiate the terms of a new license agreement. The most recent express extension of the license expired on January 31, 2018. From that date until February 18, 2025, we continued to operate under the terms of the 1990 license, providing water services to the level and quality specified in the 1990 license and in accordance with our understanding of its legal obligations, treating those obligations set forth in the 1990 license as operative notwithstanding the expiration of the express extension. We continued to pay the royalty of 7.5% of the revenue we collected as required under the 1990 license.
In October 2016, the Government of the Cayman Islands passed legislation which created a new utilities regulation and competition office (“OfReg”). OfReg is an independent and accountable regulatory body with a view of protecting the rights of consumers, encouraging affordable utility services and promoting competition. OfReg, which began operations in January 2017, has the ability to supervise, monitor and regulate multiple utility undertakings and markets. Supplemental legislation was passed by the Government of the Cayman Islands in April 2017, which transferred responsibility for economic regulation of the water utility sector and the negotiations with us for a new retail license from the WAC to OfReg in May 2017. We began license negotiations with OfReg in July 2017 and such negotiations are ongoing. We have been informed during our retail license negotiations, both by OfReg and its predecessor in these negotiations, that they seek to restructure the terms of our license in a manner that could significantly reduce the operating income and cash flows we have historically generated from our retail license.
Under the new regulatory legislation passed in October 2016, Cayman Water must first be granted a concession by the government before obtaining a new (or renewing the old) retail operations license. On February 18, 2025, Cayman Water received a new concession from the government that authorizes and maintains the terms of the 1990 license until a new license from OfReg is negotiated and enacted.
See also ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS and ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS - Material Commitments, Expenditures and Contingencies - Cayman Water Retail License.
Our retail operations in the Cayman Islands produce potable water at three seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants in Grand Cayman located at our Abel Castillo Water Works (“ACWW”) and West Bay sites. We own the land for our ACWW and West Bay plants. The current aggregate production capacity of the two plants located at ACWW is 3.0 million gallons of water per day. The production capacity of the West Bay plant is 1.0 million gallons of water per day.
Electricity is supplied to our plants by Caribbean Utilities Co. Ltd., a publicly traded utility company. We maintain diesel engine-driven standby generators at all three retail plant sites with sufficient capacity to operate our distribution pumps and other essential equipment during any temporary interruptions in electricity supply. Standby generation capacity is available at our ACWW plants and West Bay plant to operate a portion of the water production capacity as well.
Our distribution system is connected to the distribution system of the WAC. From time to time, the WAC has purchased water from our retail plants.
Our pipeline system on Grand Cayman covers the Seven Mile Beach and West Bay areas and consists of approximately 100 miles of potable water pipeline. We extend our distribution system periodically as demand warrants. We have a main pipe loop covering the Seven Mile Beach and West Bay areas. We place extensions of smaller diameter pipe off our main pipe to service new developments in our service area. This system of building branches from the main pipe keeps construction costs low and allows us to provide service to new areas in a timely manner. Developers are responsible for laying the pipeline within their developments at their own cost, but in accordance with our specifications. When a development is completed, the developer then transfers operation and maintenance of the pipeline to us.
We bill our customers on a monthly basis based on metered consumption and bills are typically collected within 30 to 45 days after the billing date. Receivables not collected within 45 days subject the customer to disconnection from water
service. The provision for credit losses has historically represented less than 1% of our total annual retail sales. In addition to their past due invoice balance, customers that have had their service disconnected must pay re-connection charges.
Demand on our water production and pipeline distribution varies throughout the year. Demand depends upon various factors, most notably rainfall amounts and the number of tourists visiting Grand Cayman during any particular time of the year. In general, the majority of tourists come from the United States during the winter which is also the dry season in the Cayman Islands. The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting cessation of tourism to the Cayman Islands significantly reduced demand for our water. In August 2022, the Cayman Islands government lifted the COVID-19 pandemic related travel restrictions that had eliminated tourist travel to the Cayman Islands since March 2020.
Bulk Water Operations
For fiscal years 2024, 2023, and 2022, our bulk water operations accounted for approximately 25%, 19%, and 35%, respectively, of our consolidated revenue. These operations produce potable water from seawater and sell this water to government-owned utilities in the Cayman Islands and The Bahamas, which then distribute the water to end users.
Bulk Water Operations in the Cayman Islands
Through our wholly-owned subsidiary OC-Cayman we provide bulk water to the WAC, a government-owned utility and regulatory agency, under two agreements. The WAC in turn distributes that water to properties in Grand Cayman outside of our retail license area.
The water we provide to the WAC is produced at three seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants in Grand Cayman owned by the WAC but designed and built by DesalCo and operated by OC-Cayman: the North Sound, Red Gate and North Side Water Works (“NSWW”) plants, which have production capacities of approximately 1.6 million, 2.6 million and 2.4 million gallons of water per day, respectively. The plants we operate for the WAC are located on land owned by the WAC.
Our agreement with the WAC for the North Sound and NSWW plants expires in 2026. Our agreement with the WAC for the Red Gate plant expires in 2034.
Bulk Water Operations in The Bahamas
We sell bulk water in The Bahamas through our majority-owned subsidiary, CW-Bahamas, to the WSC, which distributes the water through its own pipeline system to residential, commercial and tourist properties on the Island of New Providence.
We supply bulk water in The Bahamas from our Windsor and Blue Hills plants.
Our water supply agreement with the WSC for our Windsor plant, which has a capacity of 2.8 million gallons per day, expires in August 2033 and requires us to deliver and requires the WSC to purchase a minimum of 16.8 million gallons per week.
We supply water from the Blue Hills plant, our largest seawater reverse osmosis desalination facility with a capacity of 12.0 million gallons per day, under the terms of a water supply agreement with the WSC that expires in March 2032 that requires us to deliver and requires the WSC to purchase a minimum of 63.0 million gallons of water each week.
The high-pressure pumps at our Windsor and Blue Hills plants in The Bahamas are powered by diesel engines. Electricity for the remainder of our plant operations is supplied by Bahamas Power and Light Company (“BPL”). We maintain a standby generator with sufficient capacity to operate essential equipment at our Windsor and Blue Hills plants and are able to produce 100% of the production capacity with these plants during temporary interruptions in the electricity supply from BPL.
Services Operations
For fiscal years 2024, 2023, and 2022, our services operations accounted for approximately 38%, 54% and 31%, respectively, of our consolidated revenue.
We provide design, engineering and construction services for desalination infrastructure projects through DesalCo, an original equipment manufacturer of seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants. DesalCo also provides management and procurement services for desalination plants and engineering services relating to municipal water production, distribution and treatment. DesalCo sometimes tests new components and technology offered by suppliers in our business and, at times, collaborates with suppliers in the development of their products. Presently, DesalCo is providing engineering, management and purchasing services to our affiliate OC-BVI in the British Virgin Islands. In the past, DesalCo has provided consulting services to the WSC and constructed the desalination plants sold by OC-Cayman to the WAC.
In October 2019, we acquired 51% of the common stock of PERC, a U.S. company headquartered in Fountain Valley, California, which commenced operations in 1998. In August 2020, we acquired an additional 10% of PERC, increasing our ownership of this subsidiary to 61%. In January 2023, we acquired the remaining 39% ownership interest in PERC. PERC designs, constructs, sells, operates and manages water, wastewater and water reuse infrastructure. PERC also provides management services for water, wastewater and water reuse infrastructure under long-term operations and maintenance contracts. PERC’s primary markets are California and the Southwest U.S., but it conducts business in other areas of the U.S.
Effective October 1, 2023, we purchased, through our wholly-owned subsidiary PERC, a 100% ownership interest in REC, a Colorado company headquartered in Frederick, Colorado. REC operates and maintains water and wastewater treatment facilities and provides technical services to clients throughout the Rocky Mountain and Eastern Plains Regions of Colorado.
Manufacturing Operations
For fiscal years 2024, 2023, and 2022, our manufacturing operations accounted for approximately 13%, 10% and 7%, respectively, of our consolidated revenue. Our manufacturing operations consist of Aerex, an original equipment manufacturer and service provider of a wide range of specialized and custom products applicable to desalination, municipal water treatment and industrial water and wastewater treatment. Aerex’s products include reverse osmosis desalination equipment, membrane separation equipment, filtration equipment, piping systems, vessels and custom fabricated components. Aerex’s manufacturing facility and headquarters are located in Fort Pierce, Florida and substantially all of its customers are U.S. companies.
Affiliate Operations
Our affiliate, OC-BVI, sells water to the Government of the British Virgin Islands Water and Sewerage Department (“BVIW&S”). We own 50% of the voting shares of OC-BVI and have an overall 43.53% equity interest in the profits of OC-BVI. We also own separate profit-sharing rights in OC-BVI that raise our effective interest in OC-BVI’s profits from 43.53% to approximately 45%. Sage Water Holdings (BVI) Limited (“Sage”) owns the remaining 50% of the voting shares of OC-BVI and the remaining 55% interest in its profits. Under the Articles of Association of OC-BVI, we have the right to appoint three of the six Directors of OC-BVI. Sage is entitled to appoint the remaining three Directors. In the event of a tied vote of the Directors, the President of the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association, a regional trade association comprised primarily of government representatives, is entitled to appoint a junior director to cast a deciding vote.
Through DesalCo, we provide certain engineering and administrative services to OC-BVI for a monthly fee and a bonus arrangement which provides for payment of 4% of the net operating income of OC-BVI.
We account for our investment in OC-BVI using the equity method of accounting.
OC-BVI sells bulk water to BVIW&S, which distributes the water through its own pipeline system to residential, commercial and tourist properties on the islands of Tortola and Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands.
OC-BVI owns and operates a desalination plant located at Bar Bay, Tortola with a capacity of 720,000 gallons per day. Pursuant to a water supply agreement with the BVI government, OC-BVI is required to supply up to 600,000 gallons per day to the BVI government. This water supply agreement expires in March 2031.
OC-BVI purchases electrical power to operate this plant from the BVI Electricity Corporation and operates diesel engine-driven emergency power generators which can produce 100% of the plant’s production capacity when the BVI Electricity Corporation is unable to provide power to the plant.
OC-BVI’s plant on the island of Jost Van Dyke has a capacity of 60,000 gallons per day. This plant operates under a 10-year contract with the BVI government that expired July 8, 2013. Pursuant to the contract, OC-BVI is operating the plant on a year-to-year basis until the BVI government informs OC-BVI of its intention to extend the existing contract or enter into a new agreement. We purchase electrical power to operate this plant from the BVI Electricity Corporation.
Reverse Osmosis Technology
The conversion of seawater to potable water is called desalination. The primary method of seawater desalination used throughout the world is reverse osmosis. Reverse osmosis is a fluid separation process in which the saline water (i.e. seawater) is pressurized and the fresh water is separated from the saline water by passing through a semi-permeable membrane which rejects the salts. The saline water is first passed through a pretreatment system, which generally consists of fine filtration and, if required, treatment chemicals. Pre-treatment removes suspended solids and organics which could cause fouling of the membrane surface. Next, a high-pressure pump pressurizes the saline water thus enabling approximately 40% conversion of the saline water to fresh water as it passes through the membrane, while more than 99% of the dissolved salts are rejected and remain in the now concentrated saline water. This concentrate is discharged without passing through the membrane, and the remaining hydraulic energy in the concentrate is transferred to the initial saline feed water with an energy recovery device thus reducing the total energy requirement for the reverse osmosis system. The final step is post-treatment, which consists of stabilizing the produced fresh water and/or removing undesirable dissolved gases, adjusting the pH and (if necessary) the mineral content, and providing chlorination to prepare it for distribution.
We use reverse osmosis technology to convert seawater to potable water at all of the desalination plants we construct and operate. We believe that this technology is the most effective and efficient conversion process for our markets. However, we are always seeking ways to maximize efficiencies in our current processes and investigating new, more efficient processes to convert seawater to potable water. The equipment at our desalination plants is among the most energy efficient available and we monitor and maintain the equipment in an efficient manner. As a result of our decades of experience in seawater desalination, we believe our expertise and experience with respect to the development and operation of desalination plants and similar facilities is easily transferable to locations outside of our historical operating areas as demonstrated by the recent award to us of a reverse osmosis desalination project in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Wastewater Treatment Technology
Our approach to wastewater treatment integrates advanced technologies and processes to ensure high-quality water reuse while addressing environmental and operational concerns. Typical technology uses include that of micro and ultra filtration, reverse osmosis, and ultraviolet advanced oxidation systems, often with sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide as oxidizers, to meet the stringent water quality parameters set by California. This is particularly relevant for applications like Title 22 reuse and Indirect Potable Reuse, where safety and quality are paramount.
We utilize Membrane Bioreactor (“MBR”) technology, which is a wastewater treatment process that has been used for several decades to produce high quality recycled water for non-potable reuse. MBR technology, which integrates micro or ultra-filtration membranes with biological wastewater treatment processes, offers several advantages. These include a reduced physical footprint, which is crucial in areas where space is at a premium, and the production of higher quality treated effluent, which is vital for ensuring the safety and reliability of water reuse. Additionally, MBR's capability to handle more challenging influent makes it a versatile solution for a variety of wastewater treatment needs.
We employ various methods to improve the aesthetic and environmental integration of our clients’ facilities. We conceal equipment and housing technologies in buildings that are both aesthetically pleasing and odor friendly, thereby addressing two of the common challenges in wastewater treatment facilities: odor and visual impact. This not only enhances the quality of life for nearby residents but also demonstrates a commitment to environmental stewardship.
Furthermore, the vertical integration of technology within our operations constitutes a strategic approach to improving efficiency in construction and operational phases. We believe this integration leads to cost savings, faster project completion times, reduction of raw material usage, and smoother operational processes.
Overall, our strategies and technologies reflect a holistic approach to wastewater treatment, emphasizing efficiency, environmental sensitivity, and the production of high-quality treated water for various reuse applications.
Raw Materials and Sources of Supply
All materials, parts and supplies essential to our business operations are obtained from multiple sources and we use the latest industry technology. Prior to our acquisition of Aerex, we did not manufacture any parts or components for equipment essential to our business. Aerex has manufactured key components for our desalination plants and we expect Aerex to continue to do so from time to time, however, our other businesses are not dependent on Aerex.
Our access to seawater for processing into potable water is granted through our licenses and contracts with governments of the various jurisdictions in which we operate.
Seasonal Variations in Our Business
Demand for our water in the Cayman Islands, The Bahamas and the British Virgin Islands is affected by variations in the level of tourism and rainfall. Tourism in our service areas is affected by the economies of the tourists’ home countries, primarily the United States and Europe, terrorist activity and perceived threats thereof, global health concerns such as COVID-19, and increased costs of fuel and airfare. In the Cayman Islands, we normally sell more water during the first and second quarters of the year, when the number of tourists is greater and local rainfall is less than in the third and fourth quarters. The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting cessation of tourism to the Cayman Islands significantly reduced demand for our water in 2021. In August 2022, the Cayman Islands government lifted the COVID-19 pandemic related travel restrictions that had eliminated tourist travel to the Cayman Islands since March 2020. Demand for our water in The Bahamas was not affected to the same degree by the drop in tourism resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The business conducted by Aerex, REC, and PERC is generally not subject to seasonal variations.
Government Regulations, Custom Duties and Taxes
Our operations and activities are subject to the governmental regulations and taxes of the countries in which we operate. The following summary of regulatory developments and legislation does not purport to describe all present and proposed regulation and legislation that may affect our businesses. Legislative or regulatory requirements currently applicable to our businesses may change in the future. Any such changes could impose new obligations on us that may adversely affect our business and operating results. The following paragraphs set forth some of the key governmental regulations in the jurisdictions in which we operate outside of the United States.
Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands have no taxes on profits, income, distributions, capital gains or appreciation. We have exemptions from, or receive concessionary rates of customs duties on, certain capital expenditures for plant and major consumable spare parts and supplies imported into the Cayman Islands under our retail water license. We do not pay import duty or taxes on reverse osmosis membranes, electric pumps and motors, and chemicals, but we do pay duty at the rate of 10% of the cost, including insurance and transportation to the Cayman Islands, of other plant and associated materials and equipment to manufacture or supply water in the Seven Mile Beach or West Bay areas. We have been advised by the
Government of the Cayman Islands that we will not receive any duty concessions in any new retail water license signed with the government.
The Bahamas
Under the current laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, no income, corporation, capital gains or similar taxes are payable by us. We are required to pay an annual business license fee (the calculation of which is based on our preceding year’s financial statements) which to date has not been material to the results of our Bahamas operations. We are also required to pay a value added tax on materials and services we purchase and bill a value added tax for the water we sell.
Markets and Service Areas
We operate in the Cayman Islands, The Bahamas, the United States and the British Virgin Islands. We believe that potential new markets for us include (i) any location where a need for potable water exists and reverse osmosis desalination of seawater or brackish water is an economically viable means of meeting such need; (ii) any location with a need for the water treatment and water reuse infrastructure development and management services we provide; and (iii) those new customers that require specialized water production and treatment products and systems such as those we manufacture.
Cayman Islands. The Cayman Islands government, through the WAC, supplies water to the areas of Grand Cayman that are not within our licensed area, as well as to Cayman Brac. We operate all but one of the reverse osmosis desalination plants owned by the WAC on Grand Cayman and supply water under three agreements held by OC-Cayman with the WAC.
According to the most recent information published by the Economics and Statistics Office of the Cayman Islands Government, the population of the Cayman Islands was estimated in 2023 to be 84,738 after the 2021 census count. According to the figures published by the Department of Tourism Statistics Information Center, in 2024 as compared to 2023, tourist air arrivals increased by 2% to approximately 438,000 and tourist cruise ship arrivals decreased by 15% to approximately 1,076,000.
We believe that our water sales in the Cayman Islands are more positively impacted by stay-over tourists that arrive by air than by those arriving by cruise ship, since cruise ship tourists generally only visit the island for less than one day and do not stay in hotels or condominiums. Our water sales in the Cayman Islands are also greatly impacted by rainfall patterns and amounts on Grand Cayman.
The Bahamas. The Bahamas government, through the WSC, supplies all of the piped water on the island of New Providence, Bahamas, which includes Nassau, the largest city, political capital and commercial hub of The Bahamas. We supply water to the WSC through the water supply agreements for our Blue Hills and Windsor plants, which are located in Nassau. New Providence is the most populous island in The Bahamas, with more than 70% of the country’s population. A 2022 census placed the population of New Providence at approximately 297,000. According to statistics published by the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, in 2024 as compared to 2023, the number of air arrivals decreased by 1% to approximately 1,320,000 and cruise ship arrivals increased by 25% to approximately 3,901,000.
British Virgin Islands. The British Virgin Islands are a British Overseas Territory and are situated east of Puerto Rico. They consist of 16 inhabited and more than 20 uninhabited islands, of which Tortola is the largest and most populated. The British Virgin Islands serve as a hub for many large yacht-chartering businesses.
Competition
Cayman Islands. Pursuant to our license granted by the Cayman Islands government, we have the exclusive right to provide potable, piped water within our licensed service area on Grand Cayman.
We are the only non-government-owned public water utility on Grand Cayman. The Cayman Islands government, through the WAC, supplies water to parts of Grand Cayman located outside of our licensed service area. Although we have no competition within our exclusive retail license service area for potable water, our ability to expand our service area is at
the discretion of the Cayman Islands government. We have competed with such companies as Veolia, IDE Technologies and small local contractors for bulk water supply contracts with the WAC and expect to compete with these and other companies for any new water supply contracts awarded by the WAC.
The Bahamas. We have competed with companies such as Veolia, IDE Technologies, and TSG for the contracts with The Bahamas government to build and operate seawater desalination plants in the past. We expect to compete with these companies and others for any future water supply contracts in The Bahamas.
British Virgin Islands. In the British Virgin Islands, Veolia operates seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants in West End, Tortola, and on Virgin Gorda and generally bids against OC-BVI for projects. Seven Seas Water owns and operates a 2.75 million gallon per day desalination plant in Parakeeta Bay, Tortola for the British Virgin Islands government. We expect that OC-BVI will likely compete against Veolia, Seven Seas Water, TSG and other parties for any future business opportunities that may arise in the British Virgin Islands.
United States. Aerex competes in the highly fragmented industry for manufactured water production and treatment equipment and systems against a large number of manufacturers, fabricators and service providers, many of which have greater resources than Aerex.
PERC and REC compete in the highly fragmented industry for water treatment and water reuse infrastructure development and management against a large number of companies, many of which have greater resources than PERC and REC such as Veolia, Inframark, and Jacobs Solutions.
Environmental and Health Regulatory Matters
Cayman Islands. With respect to our Cayman Islands operations, we operate our water plants in accordance with Cayman Islands laws and regulations. We are licensed by the WAC to extract seawater from wells and discharge concentrated seawater, which is a byproduct of our desalination process, into deep disposal wells.
Our Cayman Islands retail water license and bulk water operating contracts require our potable water to meet the World Health Organization’s Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality and contain less than 200 mg/l of total dissolved solids.
The Bahamas and British Virgin Islands. With respect to our Bahamian operations and OC-BVI’s British Virgin Islands operations, we and OC-BVI are required by our water supply contracts to take all reasonable measures to prevent pollution of the environment. We are licensed by the Bahamian government to discharge concentrated seawater, which is a by-product of our desalination process, into deep disposal wells. OC-BVI is licensed by the British Virgin Islands government to discharge concentrated seawater into the sea.
At several of our locations, hydrogen sulfide gas is present in the seawater and we are contractually obligated to operate our plants in a manner designed to remove hydrogen sulfide gas from our product water and to prevent the emission of airborne hydrogen sulfide gas into the environment.
United States. Consistent with other U.S. companies, Aerex, PERC, Kalaeloa Desalco and REC must comply with various federal laws and regulations, such as those administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as state and local laws and regulations.
We are not aware of any existing or pending environmental legislation which may negatively affect our operations. Presently, we do not have any outstanding issues with any regulatory authority.
Human Capital
We are committed to a work environment that is safe, welcoming and encouraging. To achieve our plans and goals, it is imperative that we attract and retain top talent. In order to do so, we aim to provide a workplace with opportunities for our employees to grow and develop professionally, supported by strong compensation, benefits, and other incentives. We have historically experienced low employee turnover.
As of March 10, 2025, we employed a total of 307 persons, 62 in the Cayman Islands, 226 in the United States, 17 in The Bahamas and two in The Netherlands. We also managed the five employees of OC-BVI in the British Virgin Islands. We have 23 management employees and 60 administrative and clerical employees. The remaining employees are engaged in engineering, purchasing, plant maintenance and operations, pipe laying and repair, leak detection, new customer connections, meter reading and laboratory analysis of water quality. We have no collective bargaining agreements with our employees, and none are represented by labor unions. We consider our relationship with our employees to be very good.
Available Information
Our website address is http://www.cwco.com. Information contained on our website is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report, and you should not consider information contained on our website as part of this Annual Report.
We have adopted a written code of conduct and ethics that applies to all of our employees and Directors, including, but not limited to, our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions. The Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, the charters of the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, Nominations and Corporate Governance Committee, Environmental and Social Governance Committee and the Corporate Governance Guidelines of our Board of Directors are available at the Investors section of our website.
You may access, free of charge, our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and current reports on Form 8-K, plus amendments to such reports as filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, on our website and on the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. In addition, paper copies of these documents may be obtained free of charge by writing us at the following address: Consolidated Water Co. Ltd., Regatta Office Park, Windward Three, 4th Floor, West Bay Road, P.O. Box 1114, Grand Cayman, KY1-1102, Cayman Islands, Attention: Investor Relations; or by calling us at (345) 945-4277.

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
ITEM 1A.
RISK FACTORS
Investing in our common stock involves risks. Before investing in our common stock, you should consider carefully the factors discussed below and the information contained in this Annual Report. Each of these risks, as well as other risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial, could adversely affect our business, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition, and cause the value of our common stock to decline, which may result in the loss of part, or all, of your investment.
Our exclusive license to provide water to retail customers in the Cayman Islands is presently under renegotiation with OfReg, the Cayman Islands government utility regulatory authority, and we are presently unable to predict the outcome of these on-going negotiations.
We sell water through our retail operations under a license issued in July 1990 by the Cayman Islands government (the “1990 license”) that granted Cayman Water the exclusive right to provide potable water to customers within its licensed service area. Pursuant to the 1990 license, Cayman Water has the exclusive right to produce potable water and distribute it by pipeline to its licensed service area, which consists of two of the three most populated areas of Grand Cayman Island: Seven Mile Beach and West Bay. In 2024, 2023, and 2022, we generated approximately 24%, 17% and 27%, respectively, of our consolidated revenue and 38%, 26% and 44%, respectively, of our consolidated gross profit from the retail water operations conducted under the 1990 license.
The 1990 license was originally scheduled to expire in July 2010 but was extended several times by the Cayman Islands government in order to provide the parties with additional time to negotiate the terms of a new license agreement. The most recent express extension of the license expired on January 31, 2018. From that date through February 18, 2025, we continued to operate under the terms of the 1990 license, providing water services to the level and quality specified in the 1990 license and in accordance with our understanding of its legal obligations, treating those obligations set forth in the
1990 license as operative notwithstanding the expiration of the express extension. We continued to pay a royalty of 7.5% of the revenue we collected as required under the 1990 license.
In October 2016, the Government of the Cayman Islands passed legislation which created a new utilities regulation and competition office (“OfReg”). OfReg is an independent and accountable regulatory body with a view of protecting the rights of consumers, encouraging affordable utility services, and promoting competition. OfReg, which began operations in January 2017, has the ability to supervise, monitor and regulate multiple utility undertakings and markets. Supplemental legislation was passed by the Government of the Cayman Islands in April 2017, which transferred responsibility for economic regulation of the water utility sector and the negotiations with us for a new retail license from the WAC to OfReg in May 2017. We began license negotiations with OfReg in July 2017 and such negotiations are ongoing. We have been informed during our retail license negotiations, both by OfReg and its predecessor in these negotiations, that they seek to restructure the terms of our license in a manner that could significantly reduce the operating income and cash flows we have historically generated from our retail license.
Under the new regulatory legislation passed in October 2016, Cayman Water must first be granted a concession by the government before obtaining a new (or renewing the old) retail operations license. On February 18, 2025, Cayman Water received a new concession from government that authorizes and maintains the terms of the 1990 license until a new license from OfReg is negotiated and enacted.
We are presently unable to determine what impact the resolution of our retail license negotiations with OfReg will have on our cash flows, financial condition or results of operations but such resolution could result in a material reduction (or the loss) of the operating income and cash flows we have historically generated from our retail operations and could require us to record impairment losses to reduce the carrying values of our retail segment assets. Such impairment losses could have a material adverse impact on our consolidated financial condition and results of operations.
Periodically, our Bahamas subsidiary experiences substantial delays in the collection of its accounts receivable. As a result, our Bahamas subsidiary could have insufficient liquidity to continue operations, and our consolidated financial results could be materially adversely affected.
CW-Bahamas’ accounts receivable balances (which include accrued interest) due from the WSC amounted to $28.4 million as of December 31, 2024. Approximately 81% of this December 31, 2024 accounts receivable balance was delinquent as of that date. The delay in collecting these accounts receivable has adversely impacted the liquidity of this subsidiary.
From time to time (including presently), CW-Bahamas has experienced delays in collecting its accounts receivable from the WSC. When these delays occur, we hold discussions and meetings with representatives of the WSC and The Bahamas government, and as a result, payment schedules are developed for WSC’s delinquent accounts receivable. All previous delinquent accounts receivable from the WSC, including accrued interest thereon, were eventually paid in full. Based upon this payment history, we have not provided for a material allowance for credit losses for CW-Bahamas’ accounts receivable from the WSC as of December 31, 2024.
In a report dated October 6, 2022, Moody’s Investor Services (“Moody’s”) downgraded The Bahamas’ long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings to B1 from Ba3. Moody’s also lowered The Bahamas’ local currency ceiling to Baa3 from Baa2 and its foreign currency ceiling to Ba1 from Baa3. Moody’s has maintained these ratings through the date of its most current report issued in October 2024.
If CW-Bahamas is unable to collect a significant portion of its delinquent accounts receivable, one or more of the following events may occur: (i) CW-Bahamas may not have sufficient liquidity to meet its obligations; (ii) we may be required to cease the recognition of revenue on CW-Bahamas’ water supply agreements with the WSC; and (iii) we may be required to provide a material allowance for credit losses for CW-Bahamas’ accounts receivable. Any of these events could have a material adverse impact on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
The profitability of our contracts is dependent upon our ability to accurately estimate construction and operating costs.
The cost estimates we prepare in connection with the construction and operation of our water plants, the water infrastructure we construct and sell to third parties, and our manufacturing contracts, are subject to inherent uncertainties. Additionally, the terms of our water supply contracts may require us to guarantee the price of water on a per unit basis, subject to certain annual inflation and monthly energy cost adjustments, and to assume the risk that the costs associated with producing this water may be greater than anticipated. Because we base our contract prices in part on our estimation of future construction, manufacturing and operating costs, the profitability of our plants and our manufacturing and operations and maintenance contracts is dependent on our ability to estimate these costs accurately. The cost of materials and services and the cost of the delivery of such services may increase significantly after we submit our bid for a contract, which could cause the gross profit for a contract to be less than we anticipated when the bid was made. The profit margins we initially expect to generate from an operations and maintenance contract could be further reduced if future operating costs for that contract exceed our estimates of such costs. Any construction, manufacturing, and operating costs for our contracts that significantly exceed our initial estimates could have a material adverse impact our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
Certain of PERC’s contracts with its customers, including the contract with the Board of Water Supply of the City of Honolulu, Hawaii, may be terminated at any time at the customer’s convenience or with relatively short advance notice. The termination of any of these contracts prior to their full performance may result in us realizing less than the full consideration payable under the contract and may negatively impact our financial results.
Certain of PERC’s contracts with its customers, and substantially all of its contracts with governments or municipalities, may be terminated at any time at the customer’s convenience with no or relatively short advance notice. Our business is highly dependent on the purchase of our products and services by government and municipalities, and we believe that contracts with similar termination provisions will continue to be a source of a substantial portion of our revenue for the foreseeable future.
If a customer terminates one of our contracts for convenience, we generally may recover, at most, our incurred or committed costs, settlement expenses, and payment for work completed or products delivered prior to the termination. As such, the termination of any of these contracts prior to their stated term may result in us realizing less than the full consideration payable under the contract. If any such contract is terminated prior to us performing a substantial portion of the work to be performed or delivering a substantial portion of the products to be delivered, prior to the termination, such termination may have a material adverse impact on our consolidated results of operations.
A significant portion of our consolidated revenue is derived from our water supply agreements with the WSC. The loss of the WSC as a customer would adversely affect us.
One bulk water customer, the WSC, accounted for approximately 22% of our consolidated revenue for 2024. If, for financial or other reasons, the WSC does not comply with the terms of our water supply agreements our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows could be materially adversely affected.
Our operations are affected by tourism and are subject to seasonal fluctuations and other factors beyond our control that could affect the demand for our water.
Demand for our water in the Cayman Islands and The Bahamas is affected by variations in the level of tourism and local weather, primarily rainfall. Tourism in our service areas is affected by the economies of the tourists’ home countries, primarily the United States and Europe, terrorist activity and perceived threats thereof, global health concerns such as COVID-19, and increased costs of fuel and airfare. In the Cayman Islands, we normally sell more water during the first and second quarters of the year, when the number of tourists is greater and local rainfall is less than in the third and fourth quarters. A downturn in tourism or greater than expected rainfall in the locations we serve could adversely impact our results of operations and cash flows. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the resulting cessation of tourism to the Cayman Islands through August 2022 significantly reduced the demand for our water.
Performance shortfalls under any of our bulk supply contracts could result in penalties or cancellation of the contract.
Our bulk water supply agreements require us to meet specified minimum quality, quantity and energy consumption guarantees. Membrane fouling or other technical problems could occur at any of our plants, and if we are unable to meet the guarantees due to such technical problems, we could be in default of the supply agreement and subject to various adverse consequences, including financial penalties or cancellation of the agreement.
Our operations could be harmed by natural disasters such as hurricanes or earthquakes.
A natural disaster could cause major damage to our equipment and properties and the properties of our customers, including the large tourist properties in our areas of operation. For example, in January 2020, Grand Cayman experienced an earthquake which damaged three of our eight storage tanks. Any future disaster could cause us to lose use of our equipment and properties and incur additional repair costs. Damage to our customers’ properties and the adverse impact on tourism could result in a decrease in water demand. A natural disaster could also disrupt the delivery of equipment and supplies, including electricity, necessary to our operations. These and other possible effects of natural disasters could have a material adverse impact on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
Contamination of our water may cause disruption in our services and adversely affect our revenue.
Our feed water and/or processed water may become contaminated by natural occurrences and by inadvertent or intentional human interference, including acts of terrorism. If our feed water and/or processed water becomes contaminated, we may have to interrupt our supply of desalinated potable water until we are able to install treatment equipment or substitute the flow of water from an uncontaminated water source. In addition, we may incur significant costs in order to treat contaminated feed or processed water through expansion of our current treatment facilities, or development of new treatment methods. An inability by us to substitute feed water from an uncontaminated water source or to adequately treat the contaminated plant feed water or our processed water in a cost-effective manner may have a material adverse impact on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
Our internal controls over financial reporting were not considered to be effective as of December 31, 2024, and our independent auditors may not be able to certify as to their effectiveness in the future, which could adversely affect our business results and operations.
A material weakness was identified in our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024. The material weakness related to insufficient information technology general controls designed to monitor direct changes to databases within two accounting systems during the period January 1, 2024 through October 31, 2024. Although we have taken actions to remediate this weakness, we cannot conclude that our remediation effort has been successful until such time as we have completed sufficient testing of the remediation process and the accompanying internal controls and procedures that rely on the information technology general controls. We cannot assure you that our remediation efforts will be successful or that other material weaknesses and control deficiencies will not be discovered in the future. If we identify any other material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, it may cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial information, which could have a negative effect on the trading price of our common stock.
Potential government decisions, actions and regulations could negatively affect our operations.
We are subject to the local regulations of the countries in which we operate, all of which are subject to change. Any government that regulates our operations may issue legislation or adopt new regulations, including but not limited to:
●restricting foreign ownership (by us);
●providing for the expropriation of our assets by the government;
●providing for nationalization of public utilities by the government;
●providing for different water quality standards;
●unilaterally changing or renegotiating our license and agreements;
●restricting the importation or use, and/or imposing tariffs on certain goods and materials from foreign countries;
●restricting the transfer of U.S. currency; or
●causing currency exchange fluctuations/devaluations or enacting changes in tax laws.
As new laws and regulations are issued, we may be required to modify our operations and business strategy, which we may be unable to do in a cost-effective manner. Failure by us to comply with applicable regulations could result in the loss of our authorizations to operate, the assessment of penalties or fines, or otherwise may have a material adverse impact on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
Unforeseen environmental costs could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
We are subject to various federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations concerning environmental protection, including laws addressing water quality and contamination, the discharge of pollutants into the air and water, the management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes, and the cleanup of contaminated sites. In particular, we face increasing complexity in our operations as we adjust to new and future requirements relating to water quality, the composition of our other products, their safe use, the energy consumption associated with our operations, and climate change laws and regulations. If we were to violate or become liable under environmental laws or if our products become non-compliant with environmental laws, we could incur substantial costs or face other sanctions, which may include restrictions on operating in certain jurisdictions. Our potential exposure includes fines and civil or criminal sanctions, third-party property damage, personal injury claims and clean-up costs. Further, liability under some environmental laws relating to contaminated sites can be imposed retroactively on a joint and several basis, and without any finding of noncompliance or fault. The amount and timing of costs to comply with environmental laws are difficult to predict. In addition, any complaints or lawsuits against us based on water quality and contamination may receive negative publicity that can damage our reputation and adversely affect our business and trading price of our common stock.
If we fail to abide by laws, rules and regulations relating to human and workers’ rights, we could be subject to various actions and our reputation, business and financial results could be adversely affected.
We are subject to various federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations concerning human rights, including laws prohibiting discrimination, harassment, and forced or child labor, and establishing wage and hour standards. If we were to violate or become liable under human or workers’ laws, we could incur substantial costs or face other sanctions. Our potential exposure includes fines and civil or criminal sanctions or liability. The amount and timing of costs to comply with human and workers’ rights laws are difficult to predict. Additionally, the success of our business depends on earning and maintaining the trust and confidence of our customers, suppliers, stockholders and the communities in which we operate, our ability to compete for future opportunities, and our reputation among existing and potential clients and partners. Our reputation is critical to our business and could be impacted by events that may be difficult or impossible to control, and costly or impossible to remediate. For example, alleged or actual failures by us or our employees to comply with applicable human or workers’ rights laws, rules or regulations, expectations and perceptions of our employment and environmental, social and governance practices, threatened or actual litigation against us or our employees, or the public announcement and potential publicity surrounding any of these issues, even if inaccurate, satisfactorily addressed, or if no violation or wrongdoing actually occurred, could adversely impact our reputation and relationships with customers, suppliers, stockholders and the communities in which we operate, and our ability to renew or negotiate new agreements for projects. Any such failure or reputational harm could have an adverse effect on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
We rely on the efforts of key employees. Our failure to retain these employees could adversely affect our results of operations.
Our success depends upon the abilities of our Executive Officers. In particular, the loss of the services of Frederick W. McTaggart, our President and Chief Executive Officer, could be detrimental to our operations and our continued success. Mr. McTaggart has an employment agreement expiring on December 31, 2027. Each year, the term of this agreement may be extended for an additional year. However, we cannot guarantee that Mr. McTaggart will continue to work for us during the term of his agreement or will extend his employment agreement with us.
Our business could be adversely affected by cyber threats or other interruptions in information technology, communications networks and operations.
As part of our operations, we rely on computer systems to process transactions and communicate with our customers, suppliers and other third parties. We rely on continued and unimpeded access to secure network connections to communicate between locations and on reliable internet connections to communicate with external parties. We have physical, technical and procedural safeguards in place that are designed to protect information and protect against security and data breaches as well as fraudulent transactions and other activities. Despite these safeguards and our other security processes and protections, we cannot be assured that all our systems and processes are free from vulnerability to evolving and increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks, to other physical breaches or to inadvertent data disclosure by third parties or by us. A significant data security breach, including misappropriation of customer, supplier or confidential employee information, could cause us to incur significant costs, which may include potential costs of investigations, legal, forensic and consulting fees and expenses, costs and diversion of management attention required for investigation, remediation and litigation, substantial repair or replacement costs. We could also experience data losses that would impair our ability to manage our business operations, including accounting and project costs, manage our water and distribution systems or process transactions and have a negative impact on our reputation and loss of confidence of our customers, suppliers and others, any of which could have a material adverse impact on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows and our business in general.
We are exposed to credit risk through our relationships with several customers.
We are subject to credit risk posed by possible defaults in payment by our customers in the Cayman Islands, The Bahamas, the United States, and the British Virgin Islands. Adverse economic conditions affecting, or financial difficulties of, those parties could impair their ability to pay us or cause them to delay payment. We depend on these parties to pay us on a timely basis. Our outstanding accounts receivable are not covered by collateral or credit insurance. Any delay or default in payment could adversely affect our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
We are exposed to the risk of variations in currency exchange rates.
Although we report our results in United States dollars, a significant portion of our revenue is earned in other currencies. These currencies have been fixed to the United States dollar for more than 50 years. Consequently, we do not employ hedging strategies against the foreign currency exchange rate risk associated with conducting business in foreign currencies while reporting in United States dollars. If any of the existing fixed exchange rates for these other currencies becomes a floating exchange rate and any of these currencies depreciate against the U.S. dollar, our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows could be materially adversely affected.
We may not pay dividends in the future. If dividends are paid, they may be in lesser amounts than past dividends.
Our shareholders may receive dividends out of legally available funds if, and when, they are declared by our Board of Directors. We have paid dividends in the past but may cease to do so at any time. We may incur increased operating or development expenses or capital requirements or indebtedness in the future that may restrict our ability to pay dividends. We may also be restricted from paying dividends in the future due to restrictions imposed by applicable corporate laws, our consolidated financial condition, results of operations and cash flows, covenants contained in financing agreements, and other factors considered by our Board of Directors. We may not continue to pay dividends in the future or, if dividends are paid, they may not be in amounts comparable to past dividends.
Service of process and enforcement of legal proceedings commenced against us in the United States may be difficult to obtain.
We are incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands and most of our assets are located outside of the United States. In addition, six of our 13 Directors and Officers reside outside the United States. As a result, it may be difficult for investors to execute service of process within the United States upon us and such other persons, or to enforce judgments obtained against such persons in United States courts, and bring any action, including actions predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the United States securities laws. In addition, it may be difficult for investors to enforce, in original actions
brought in courts or jurisdictions located outside of the United States, rights predicated upon the United States securities laws.
Based on the advice of our Cayman Islands legal counsel, we believe no reciprocal statutory enforcement of foreign judgments exists between the United States and the Cayman Islands, and that foreign judgments originating from the United States are not directly enforceable in the Cayman Islands. A prevailing party in a United States proceeding against us or our Directors and Officers would have to initiate a new proceeding in the Cayman Islands using the United States judgment as evidence of the party’s claim. A prevailing party could rely on the summary judgment procedures available in the Cayman Islands, subject to available defenses in the Cayman Islands courts, including, but not limited to, the lack of competent jurisdiction in the United States courts, lack of due service of process in the United States proceeding and the possibility that enforcement or recognition of the United States judgment would be contrary to the public policy of the Cayman Islands.
Depending on the nature of damages awarded, civil liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (or the Securities Act), or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (or the Exchange Act), for original actions instituted outside the Cayman Islands may or may not be enforceable. For example, a United States judgment awarding remedies unobtainable in any legal action in the courts of the Cayman Islands, such as treble damages, would likely not be enforceable under any circumstances.
The relatively low trading volume of our stock may adversely impact the ability to sell our shares.
The average daily trading volume of our common stock in 2024 was approximately 118,000 shares, a much lower trading volume than that of many other companies listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. A public trading market having the desired characteristics of depth, liquidity and orderliness depends on the presence in the market of willing buyers and sellers of our common stock at any given time. This presence in turn depends on the individual decisions of investors and general economic and market conditions over which we have no control. Due to the limited volume of trading in our common stock, an investor in our stock may have difficulty selling larger volumes of our common stock in the manner, or at the price, that might be attainable if our common stock were more actively traded.

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ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
ITEM 1B.
UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
None.

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
ITEM 2.
PROPERTIES
Cayman Islands Properties
Abel Castillo Water Works
We own and operate our Abel Castillo Water Works, which is located in the Seven Mile Beach area and encompasses 12,812 square feet of buildings, two seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants with an aggregate capacity of 3.0 million gallons per day, a high service distribution pump house, warehouse space and three potable water storage tanks each with a capacity of 1.0 million gallons and one potable water storage tank with a capacity of 2.0 million gallons. The site is located on 4.2 acres, including 485 feet of waterfront.
West Bay Plant
In 2023, we commissioned a new seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in the West Bay area and decommissioned the previous plant located on the same property. The new plant began operating in November 2023, with a capacity of 1,000,000 gallons per day and is expandable to 2,000,000 gallons per day. This site contains a 5,000 square foot concrete building which houses our water production facility, a 2,400 square foot building which houses the potable water distribution pumps, a water quality testing laboratory, and office space and water storage capacity consisting of three potable water tanks each with a capacity of 1.0 million gallons.
Britannia Plant
We own our Britannia seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant located in the Seven Mile Beach area which has been decommissioned. However, we still have and operate on this site, a potable water storage tank with a capacity of 840,000 gallons, potable water high service pumps, and various ancillary equipment to repump water produced by our other plants. We have leased the site (comprised of 0.73 acres) and steel frame building which houses the plant for a term that ends in 2027 at an annual rent of $1.00.
Distribution System
We own our Seven Mile Beach and West Bay potable water distribution systems in Grand Cayman which consist of potable water pipes, valves, curb stops, meter boxes, and water meters. We have the legal right to maintain (and expand or contract as necessary) these systems on public and private land within our licensed service area.
Corporate Office
We occupy approximately 5,800 square feet of office space at the Regatta Office Park, West Bay Road, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands under a lease that expires in April 2029.
Other Property
In October 2022, Cayman Water purchased for $2.94 million approximately 2.8 acres of land in the West Bay area of Grand Cayman. Cayman Water expects to use this site for the construction of new corporate and operations offices, customer service center, and emergency operations center. We also plan to relocate our current warehouse facility from the ACWW site to this proposed new location at some point in the future.
Bahamas Properties
Windsor Plant
Our Windsor water production facility, located in Nassau, New Providence, has a production capacity of 2.8 million gallons per day. The plant is powered by a combination of diesel engine-driven high-pressure pumps and electrical power purchased from Bahamas Power and Light to power all other loads in the plant. The plant is contained within a 12,000 sq.
ft. steel building, and a warehouse, workshop and offices are contained within a 2,600 sq. ft. concrete building. The buildings are located on land owned by the WSC and our water sales agreement gives us a license to use the land throughout the term of that agreement, which expires in 2033. We also own and maintain a 5.0 million gallon welded steel water storage tank that was constructed by us and is operated by the WSC.
Blue Hills Plant
Our Blue Hills plant in Nassau, New Providence consists of two production facilities. The first facility was completed in July 2006, has a production capacity of 7.2 million gallons per day, and is powered by a combination of diesel engine-driven high-pressure pumps and electrical power purchased from Bahamas Power and Light to power all other loads in the plant. The plant is contained within a concrete and steel building with a footprint of 16,000 square feet that also contains a warehouse, workshop and offices. It is located on land owned by the WSC and our 20-year water sales agreement gives us a license to use the land throughout the term of that agreement.
The Blue Hills plant water supply agreement was amended in January 2011 and extended through 2032. Pursuant to this amendment, we added a second production facility to increase the total production capacity of the Blue Hills plant to 12.0 million gallons per day. The second facility was completed in March 2012 and is powered by a combination of diesel engine-driven high-pressure pumps and electrical power purchased from Bahamas Power and Light to power all other loads in the plant. The second facility is contained within a steel building with a footprint of 10,640 square feet located adjacent to the initial production facility on land owned by the WSC. We also own and maintain a 1.0 million gallon welded steel elevated water storage tank that was constructed by us and is operated by the WSC.
U.S. Properties
Aerex owns a 30,000 square foot manufacturing facility located on 6.4 acres of land in Fort Pierce, Florida and has approximately 6,000 square feet of office space in downtown Fort Pierce under a lease that expires on June 30, 2026. We are in the process of expanding Aerex’s manufacturing facility to 47,500 square feet. The anticipated completion date for this expansion is June 2025.
Our Aquilex warehouse consists of 4,100 square feet located in Sunrise, Florida that has been leased through September 2025. Our Aquilex office consists of 6,500 square feet located in Coral Springs, Florida that has been leased through March 2026. We are presently evaluating lease renewals as well as possible new locations for both our Aquilex headquarters and its warehouse.
PERC subleases approximately 4,100 square feet of office space in Fountain Valley, California that serves as its corporate headquarters. This lease expires in August 2025. We are presently evaluating a renewal of this lease as well as possible new locations for PERC’s corporate headquarters.
REC leases approximately 7,500 square feet of office space in Frederick, Colorado that serves as its corporate headquarters under a lease that expires on October 1, 2029.

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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
ITEM 3.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Not applicable.

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ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE
ITEM 4.
MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
Not applicable.
PART II

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ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY
ITEM 5.
MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
Market Information
Our Class A common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market and trades under the symbol “CWCO”.
No trading market exists for our redeemable preferred stock, which is only issued to, or purchased by, our long-term employees.
On January 2, 2024, March 27, 2024 and January 2, 2025, we issued a total of 29,392 shares, 26,742 shares and 24,875 shares of our common stock, respectively, to Executive Officers under our 2008 Equity Incentive Plan. On December 17, 2024, we issued a total of 11,448 shares of our common stock to our Directors under our Non-Executive Directors’ Share Plan in consideration for their service on our Board of Directors and the committees thereof. See “ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION”.
Currently 2,023,850 Bahamian Depository Receipts (“BDRs”) that constitute ownership of 404,770 shares of our common stock are listed and traded on the Bahamian International Stock Exchange. Our common shares that underlie these BDRs are held in a custodial account in The Bahamas. The BDRs are entitled to dividend payments, when declared, on our common stock in proportion to the BDRs’ relative value to our common stock.
Holders
As of March 10, 2025, we had 695 holders of record of our common stock.
Dividends
Our Board of Directors declares and approves any and all dividends.
We have paid dividends to owners of our common stock and redeemable preferred stock since we began declaring dividends in 1985. However, the payment of any future cash dividends will depend upon our earnings, financial condition, cash flows, capital requirements and other factors our Board of Directors deems relevant in determining the amount and timing of such dividends.
Listed below, for each quarter of the last three fiscal years, are the per share dividends declared on our issued and outstanding shares of common shares and redeemable preferred stock.
First Quarter
$
0.095
$
0.085
$
0.085
Second Quarter
0.095
0.085
0.085
Third Quarter
0.11
0.095
0.085
Fourth Quarter
0.11
0.095
0.085
$
0.41
$
0.36
$
0.34
Exchange Controls and Other Limitations Affecting Security Holders
Our Company is not subject to any governmental laws, decrees or regulations in the Cayman Islands which restrict the export or import of capital, or that affect the remittance of dividends, interest or other payments to non-resident holders of our securities. The Cayman Islands does not impose any limitations on the right of non-resident owners to hold or vote our common stock. There are no exchange control restrictions in the Cayman Islands.
The information required by Item 201(d) of Regulation S-K is provided under ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS of this Annual Report.

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ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
ITEM 6.
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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Overview
Our water production operations and activities, and those of our affiliate OC-BVI, are conducted at 10 plants in three countries: the Cayman Islands, The Bahamas, and the British Virgin Islands. The following table sets forth the comparative combined production capacity of our retail and bulk segments and our affiliate as of December 31 of each year.
Comparative Operations
Water Production Plants
Location
Plants
Capacity (1)
Plants
Capacity (1)
Plants
Capacity (1)
Cayman Islands
10.6
9.3
9.9
Bahamas
14.8
14.8
14.8
British Virgin Islands
0.8
0.8
0.8
26.2
24.9
25.5
(1) In millions of gallons per day.
Effective October 1, 2023, the Company purchased, through its wholly-owned subsidiary PERC, a 100% ownership interest in Ramey Environmental Compliance, Inc., a Colorado company that operates and maintains water and wastewater treatment facilities and provides technical services to clients throughout the Rocky Mountain and Eastern Plains Regions of Colorado. PERC acquired REC in November 2023 for approximately $4.1 million and recorded goodwill and intangible assets of $2,436,391 and $1,108,390, respectively, as of October 1, 2023 as a result of this acquisition.
The following table sets forth the comparative combined estimated production capacity of our subsidiary PERC as of December 31 of each year.
Comparative Operations
Water Treatment Plants
Location
Plants
Capacity (1)
Plants
Capacity (1)
Plants
Capacity (1)
United States
58.0
59.7
52.5
(1) In estimated millions of gallons per day.
As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, REC performed operations, maintenance, and monitoring services for 64 and 72, respectively, wastewater and water treatment plants located in the Rocky Mountain and Eastern Plains Regions of Colorado.
Cayman Islands
We have been operating our business on Grand Cayman since 1973 and have been using reverse osmosis technology to convert seawater to potable water since 1989. The Cayman Islands have a limited natural supply of fresh water. We have an exclusive license from the Cayman Islands government to process potable water from seawater and then sell and distribute that water by pipeline to the Seven Mile Beach and West Bay areas of Grand Cayman. Our Grand Cayman operations consist of three company-owned seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants which (as of December 31, 2024) provide water to 8,174 retail residential and commercial connections within a government licensed area and three
government-owned seawater reverse osmosis plants which supply bulk water to the WAC. Our pipeline system on Grand Cayman Island covers the Seven Mile Beach and West Bay areas of Grand Cayman and consists of approximately 100 miles of potable water pipe.
Our exclusive license from the Cayman Islands government was originally scheduled to expire in July 2010 but was extended several times by the Cayman Islands government in order to provide the parties with additional time to negotiate the terms of a new license agreement. The most recent express extension of the license expired on January 31, 2018. From that date to February 18, 2025, we continued to operate under the terms of the 1990 license, providing water services to the level and quality specified in the 1990 license and in accordance with our understanding of its legal obligations, treating those obligations set forth in the 1990 license as operative notwithstanding the expiration of the express extension. We continued to pay the royalty of 7.5% required under the 1990 license. On February 18, 2025, we received a new concession from the Cayman Islands government that authorizes and maintains the terms of our previous license until a new license is negotiated and enacted. We have been informed during our retail license negotiations, both by OfReg and its predecessor in these negotiations, that they seek to restructure the terms of our license in a manner that could significantly reduce the operating income and cash flows we have historically generated from our retail license. See further discussion of this matter at ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS - Material Commitments, Expenditures and Contingencies - Cayman Water Retail License.
The Bahamas
CW-Bahamas produces potable water from two seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants. The Windsor plant and the Blue Hills plant are located in Nassau, New Providence and have a total installed capacity of 14.8 million gallons per day. CW-Bahamas supplies water from these plants to the WSC under long-term supply agreements. During 2024, we supplied approximately 4.8 billion gallons of water to the WSC from these plants, which is consistent with the 4.8 billion gallons supplied during 2023.
From time to time (including presently), CW-Bahamas has experienced delays in collecting its accounts receivable. Representatives of the Bahamas government have informed us that their delays in paying our accounts receivables did/do not reflect any type of dispute with us with respect to the amounts owed. To date, all amounts due from CW-Bahamas were eventually paid in full, and we believe that the present accounts receivable from the WSC are fully collectible. Such accounts receivable balances due from The Bahamas government amounted to $28.4 million as of December 31, 2024. See further discussion of this matter at ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS - LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES - CW-Bahamas Liquidity.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our critical accounting policies relate to (i) the valuations of our goodwill, intangible assets and long-lived assets; and (ii) revenue recognition on our construction and manufacturing contracts.
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Our actual results could differ significantly from such estimates and assumptions.
The application of our critical accounting policies involves estimates or assumptions that constitute “critical accounting estimates” for us because:
● the nature of these estimates or assumptions is material due to the levels of subjectivity and judgment necessary to account for highly uncertain matters or the susceptibility of such matters to change; and
● the impact of the estimates and assumptions on financial condition and results of operations is material.
Goodwill and Intangible Assets
Goodwill represents the excess cost of an acquired business over the fair value of the assets and liabilities of the acquired business as of the date of acquisition. Goodwill and intangible assets recorded as a result of a business combination and determined to have an indefinite useful life are not amortized but are tested for impairment annually or upon the identification of a triggering event. Intangible assets with estimable useful lives are amortized over their respective estimated useful lives to their estimated residual values and reviewed periodically for impairment. We evaluate the possible impairment of goodwill annually as part of our reporting process for the fourth quarter of each fiscal year. Management identifies our reporting units for goodwill impairment testing purposes, which consist of Cayman Water, the bulk segment (which is comprised of CW-Bahamas and OC-Cayman), PERC, REC, and the manufacturing segment (i.e., Aerex), and determines the carrying value of each reporting unit by assigning the assets and liabilities, including the existing goodwill and intangible assets, to those reporting units. We determine the fair value of each reporting unit and compare these fair values to the carrying amounts of the reporting units. To the extent the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds the fair value of the reporting unit, an impairment loss is recorded.
For 2024 and 2023, we elected to assess qualitative factors to determine whether it was necessary to perform the quantitative goodwill impairment testing we have conducted in prior years for our reporting units. We assessed the relevant events and circumstances to evaluate whether it is more likely than not that the fair values of such reporting units are less than their carrying values. The events and circumstances assessed for each reporting unit included macroeconomic conditions, industry and market conditions, cost factors, overall financial performance, and other relevant events. Based upon this qualitative assessment, we determined that it is more likely than not that the fair values of our reporting units exceeded their carrying values as of December 31, 2024 and 2023.
For 2022, we elected to assess qualitative factors to determine whether it was necessary to perform the quantitative goodwill impairment testing we have conducted in prior years for all reporting units other than the manufacturing unit. We assessed the relevant events and circumstances to evaluate whether it is more likely than not that the fair values of such reporting units are less than their carrying values. The events and circumstances assessed for each unit included macroeconomic conditions, industry and market conditions, cost factors, expected future results, overall financial performance, and other relevant events. Based upon this qualitative assessment we determined that it is more likely than not that the fair values of our Cayman Water and bulk segment reporting units exceeded their carrying values as of December 31, 2022. Based upon our negotiated, arms-length purchase of the remaining 39% equity interest in PERC from its minority shareholders for $7.8 million in January 2023, the fair value of our PERC reporting unit exceeded its carrying value by 79% as of December 31, 2022.
Due to the factors discussed in the following paragraphs, we elected to test the goodwill associated with our manufacturing reporting unit for possible impairment for 2022 using the quantitative tests applied in prior years.
In 2020, approximately 80% of Aerex’s revenue, and 89% of Aerex’s gross profit were generated from sales to one customer. While Aerex sells various products to this customer, Aerex’s revenue from this customer had historically been derived primarily from one specialized product. In October 2020, this customer informed Aerex that, for inventory management purposes, it was suspending its purchases of the specialized product from Aerex following 2020 for a period of approximately one year. This customer informed Aerex at that time that it expected to recommence its purchases of the specialized product from Aerex beginning with the first quarter of 2022. As a result of this anticipated loss of revenue for Aerex, we updated our projections for our manufacturing reporting unit’s future cash flows. Such projections assumed, in part, that Aerex’s major customer would recommence its purchases from Aerex in 2022 but at a reduced aggregate amount, as compared to 2020. Based upon these updated projections, we tested our manufacturing reporting unit’s goodwill for possible impairment as of December 31, 2020 using the discounted cash flow and guideline public company methods, with a weighting of 80% and 20% applied to these two methods, respectively. As a result of these impairment tests, we determined that the estimated fair value of our manufacturing reporting unit exceeded its carrying value by approximately 31% as of December 31, 2020.
In late July 2021, this former major customer communicated to Aerex that it expected to recommence its purchases of the specialized product from Aerex in 2022 and subsequent years, but informed Aerex that such purchases would be at substantially reduced annual amounts, as compared to the amounts it had purchased from Aerex in 2020 and prior years. Our updated sales estimate for this customer based on this new information was substantially below the sales we anticipated
to this customer for 2022 and subsequent years that we used in the discounted cash flow projections we prepared for purposes of testing our manufacturing reporting unit’s goodwill for possible impairment as of December 31, 2020. Furthermore, Aerex’s efforts to replace the revenue previously generated from this customer with revenue from existing and new customers were adversely impacted by negative economic conditions (caused in part by the COVID-19 pandemic). These negative economic conditions also increased Aerex’s raw material costs, resulted in raw material shortages and extended delivery times for such materials, and adversely affected the overall financial condition of Aerex’s current and prospective customers. Accordingly, in light of this new information from Aerex’s former major customer, and the on-going weak economic conditions that we believed would continue through 2022, we updated our projections of future cash flows for the manufacturing reporting unit and tested its goodwill for possible impairment as of June 30, 2021 using the discounted cash flow and guideline public company methods, with a weighting of 80% and 20% applied to these two methods, respectively. Based upon this testing, we determined that the carrying value of our manufacturing reporting unit exceeded its fair value by $2.9 million, and we recorded an impairment loss to reduce our manufacturing segment’s goodwill by this amount for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
For 2022, we estimated the fair value of our manufacturing reporting unit by applying the discounted cash flow method, which relied upon seven-year discrete projections of operating results, working capital and capital expenditures, along with a terminal value subsequent to the discrete period. These seven-year projections were based upon historical and anticipated future results, general economic and market conditions, and considered the impact of planned business and operational strategies. The discount rates for the calculations represented the estimated cost of capital for market participants at the time of the analysis. We also estimated the fair value of our manufacturing reporting unit for the year ended December 31, 2022 by applying the guideline public company method. We weighted the fair values estimated for our manufacturing reporting unit under each method and summed such weighted fair values to estimate the overall fair value for the reporting unit. The respective weightings we applied to each method for the year ended December 31, 2022 were 80% to the discounted cash flow method and 20% to the guideline public company method.
The fair value we estimated for our manufacturing reporting unit exceeded its carrying amount by 63% as of December 31, 2022.
Long-lived Assets
We review the carrying amounts of our long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets might not be recoverable. Conditions that would necessitate an impairment assessment include a significant decline in the observable market value of an asset, a significant change in the extent or manner in which an asset is used, or a significant adverse change that would indicate that the carrying amount of an asset or group of assets is not recoverable. For long-lived assets to be held and used, we recognize an impairment loss only if its carrying amount is not recoverable through its undiscounted cash flows and measure the impairment loss based on the difference between the carrying amount and fair value.
On June 29, 2020, our Mexico subsidiary, AdR, received a letter from the State of Baja California (the “State”) terminating AdR’s contract with the State involving the construction and operation of a desalination plant in Rosarito California and accompanying aqueduct to deliver the water produced by this plant to the Mexican public water system. As a result of the cancellation of this contract, we recorded an impairment loss for rights of way acquired for the contract’s proposed aqueduct of approximately ($3.0 million) in 2020.
Construction and Manufacturing Contract Revenue Recognition
We design, construct, and sell desalination infrastructure through DesalCo, which serves customers in the Cayman Islands, The Bahamas, and the British Virgin Islands. We design, construct, and sell wastewater and water reuse infrastructure in the United States through PERC and Kalaeloa Desalco. Aerex is a custom and specialty manufacturer in the United States of water treatment-related systems and products applicable to commercial, municipal and industrial water production.
We recognize revenue for our construction and our specialized/custom manufacturing contracts over time under the input method using costs incurred (which represents work performed) to date relative to the total estimated costs at completion to measure progress toward satisfying a contract’s performance obligations, as such measure best reflects the transfer of control of the promised good to the customer. Contract costs include labor, materials, subcontractor costs and other
expenses. We follow this method since we can make reasonably dependable estimates of the revenue and costs applicable to the various stages of a contract. Under this input method, we record revenue and recognize profit or loss as work on the contract progresses. We estimate total costs to be incurred and profit to be earned on each long-term, fixed price contract prior to commencement of work on the contract and update these estimates as work on the contract progresses. The cumulative amount of revenue recorded on a contract at a specified point in time is that percentage of total estimated revenue that incurred costs to date comprised of estimated total contract costs. Due to the extended time it may take to complete many of our contracts and the scope and nature of the work required to be performed on those contracts, the estimations of total revenue and costs at completion are complicated and subject to many variables and, accordingly, are subject to changes. When adjustments in estimated total contract revenue or estimated total contract costs are required, any changes from prior estimates are recognized in the current period for the inception-to-date effect of such changes. We recognize the full amount of any estimated loss on a contract at the time the estimates indicate such a loss.
The cost estimates we prepare in connection with our construction and manufacturing contracts are subject to inherent uncertainties. Because we base our contract prices on our estimation of future construction and manufacturing costs, the profitability of our construction and manufacturing contracts is highly dependent on our ability to estimate these costs accurately, as almost all of our construction and manufacturing contracts are fixed-price contracts. The cost of materials, labor and subcontractors could increase significantly after we sign a construction or manufacturing contract, which could cause the gross profit for a contract to decline from our previous estimates, adversely affecting our recognition of revenue and gross profit for the contract. Construction or manufacturing contract costs that significantly exceed our initial estimates could have a material adverse impact on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
Results of Operations
The following discussion and analysis of our results of operations should be read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes included under Part II, ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA, of this Annual Report.
Year Ended December 31, 2024 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2023
Discontinued Operations - Mexico Project Development
In 2010, we began the pursuit, through our Netherlands subsidiary, Consolidated Water Cooperatief, U.A. (“CW-Cooperatief”), and our Mexico subsidiary, N.S.C. Agua, S.A. de C.V. (“NSC”), of a project (the “Project”) that encompassed the construction, operation and minority ownership of a 100 million gallons per day seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant to be located in northern Baja California, Mexico and accompanying pipeline to deliver water to the Mexican potable water system.
Through a series of transactions that began in 2012, NSC purchased 20.1 hectares of land for approximately $21.1 million on which the proposed Project’s plant was to be constructed.
In November 2015, the State of Baja California (the “State”) officially commenced the public tender for the Project. A consortium (the “Consortium”) comprised of NSC and two other parties submitted its tender for the Project in April 2016 and in June 2016, the State designated the Consortium as the winner of the tender process for the Project.
In August 2016, NSC incorporated a new company under the name Aguas de Rosarito S.A.P.I. de C.V. (“AdR”) to pursue completion of the Project and executed a shareholders agreement for AdR agreeing among other things that (i) AdR would purchase the land and other Project assets from NSC on the date that the Project begins commercial operation and (ii) AdR would enter into a Management and Technical Services Agreement with NSC effective on the first day that the Project begins commercial operation.
On August 22, 2016, the Public Private Partnership Agreement for the Project (the “APP Contract”) was executed between AdR, the State Water Commission of Baja California (“CEA”), the Government of Baja California as represented by the Secretary of Planning and Finance and the Public Utilities Commission of Tijuana (“CESPT”). The APP Contract required AdR to design, construct, finance and operate a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant (and accompanying aqueduct) with a capacity of up to 100 million gallons per day in two phases: the first with a capacity of 50 million gallons per day
and an aqueduct to the Mexican potable water system in Tijuana, Baja California and the second phase with a capacity of 50 million gallons per day. The first phase was to be operational within 36 months of commencing construction and the second phase was to be operational by July 2024. The APP Contract further required AdR to operate and maintain the plant and aqueduct for a period of 37 years starting from the commencement of operation of the first phase. At the end of the operating period, ownership of the plant and aqueduct would have been transferred to CEA.
On June 29, 2020, AdR received a letter (the “Letter”) from the Director General of CEA and the Director General of CESPT terminating the APP Contract. The Letter requested that AdR provide an inventory of the assets that comprised the “Project Works” (as defined in the APP Contract) for the purpose of acknowledging and paying the non-recoverable expenses made by AdR in connection with the Project, with such reimbursement to be calculated in accordance with the terms of the APP Contract. On August 28, 2020, AdR submitted their list of non-recoverable expenses, including those of NSC, to CEA and CESPT which was comprised of 51,144,525 United States dollars and an additional 137,333,114 Mexican pesos.
We believed CW-Cooperatief, as a Netherlands company, had certain rights relating to its investments in NSC and AdR under the Agreement on Promotion, Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investments between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Mexican States entered into force as of October 1, 1999 (the “Treaty”). On April 16, 2021, CW-Cooperatief submitted a letter to the President of Mexico and other Mexican federal government officials alleging that the State’s termination of the APP Contract constituted a breach by Mexico of its international obligations under the Treaty, entitling CW-Cooperatief to full reparation, including monetary damages. This letter invited Mexico to seek a resolution of this investment dispute through consultation and negotiation but stated that if the dispute could not be resolved in this manner, CW-Cooperatief would refer the dispute to the International Centre for the Settlement of International Disputes for arbitration, as provided for in the Treaty. On June 29, 2021, the Mexican Ministry of Economy responded to CW-Cooperatief’s letter and proposed to hold a consultation meeting. Two such meetings were held on July 9, 2021 and August 2, 2021 on a confidential basis, without a resolution of our investment dispute.
In February 2022, CW-Cooperatief, filed a Request for Arbitration with the International Centre for Settlement of International Disputes requesting that the United Mexican States pay CW-Cooperatief damages in excess of US$51 million plus MXN$137 million (with the exact amount to be quantified in the proceedings), plus fees, costs and pre- and post-award interest.
On May 29, 2024, we, through CW-Cooperatief, NSC, and AdR entered into a settlement agreement (the “Settlement Agreement”) with the State and Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos, S.N.C., as trustee under the trust agreement for the trust named Fondo Nacional de Infraestructura (the “Trust”). Under the Settlement Agreement, CW-Cooperatief requested that ICSID discontinue the arbitration and on May 31, 2024, ICSID issued an order discontinuing the arbitration. Pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, the Trust purchased the 20.1 hectares of land on which the Project’s plant was to be constructed, including related rights of way (the “Land”), on an “as-is” basis, from NSC for MXN$596,144,000. The sale of the Land to the Trust was closed on June 14, 2024 at which time the MXN$596,144,000 was paid to us and converted at the prevailing exchange rate on that date into US$31,959,685.
In connection with the Settlement Agreement on June 14, 2024, the State also paid NSC MXN$20,000,000 to purchase certain documentation owned by NSC relating to the Project.
As a result of the Settlement Agreement: (i) the parties have been released from all obligations owed to each other in connection with the APP Contract and the arbitration; and (ii) no party to the Settlement Agreement may institute any legal proceedings against another party thereto with respect to the matters which have been addressed by the Settlement Agreement.
We are presently in the process of legally terminating/dissolving CW-Cooperatief, NSC and AdR and will continue to incur expenses for these subsidiaries while such process is completed, but such expenses are not expected to be material to our consolidated results of operations.
Our net income (loss) from discontinued operations for 2024 and 2023 was $10,355,184 and ($1,086,744), respectively. The net income reported from discontinued operations for 2024 reflects the gain generated from the sale of the Project land and documentation under the Settlement Agreement.
Consolidated Results
Including discontinued operations, net income attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders for 2024 was $28,237,554 ($1.77 per share on a fully diluted basis), as compared to $29,585,391 ($1.86 per share on a fully diluted basis) for 2023.
The following discussion and analysis of our consolidated results of operations and results of operations by segment for the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 relates only to our continuing operations.
Net income from continuing operations attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders for 2024 was $17,882,370 ($1.12 per share on a fully diluted basis), as compared to $30,672,135 ($1.93 per share on a fully diluted basis) for 2023.
Revenue for 2024 decreased to $133,966,633 from $180,211,233 in 2023, due to a significant decrease in revenue from our services segment. Gross profit for 2024 was $45,624,448 (34% of total revenue) as compared to $61,927,105 (34% of total revenue) for 2023. For further discussion of revenue and gross profit see the “Results by Segment” discussion and analysis that follows.
General and administrative expenses (“G&A expenses”) on a consolidated basis increased to $27,537,436 for 2024 as compared to $24,752,366 for 2023. The principal factors for the increase in G&A expenses for 2024 relates to additional G&A expenses of approximately $1,321,000 attributable to REC, which was acquired in the fourth quarter of 2023, and incremental audit, legal and audit related and other professional fees of approximately $1,357,000.
Other income, net, increased to $2,393,676 in 2024, as compared to $828,313 in 2023 primarily due to $1,397,782 of additional interest income resulting from additional interest earned on higher balances of interest earning assets and higher late payment charges on delinquent accounts receivable balances due from the WSC.
Results by Segment
Retail Segment:
The retail segment generated $14,280,948 of income from operations for 2024 as compared to $13,266,942 for 2023.
Revenue generated by our retail water operations increased to $31,741,343 in 2024 from $30,158,051 in 2023 due to a 4.5% increase in the volume of water sold. We believe the increase in the volume of water sold in 2024 resulted in part from a 4.3% increase in the number of customer accounts in our license area from December 31, 2023 to December 31, 2024.
Retail segment gross profit increased to $17,542,255 (55% of retail revenue) for 2024 as compared to $16,266,822 (54% of retail revenue) for 2023 due to the revenue increase. Retail segment gross profit as a percentage of revenue increased slightly in 2024 as compared to 2023 due to the overall increase in water volume sold.
Retail G&A expenses remained relatively consistent at $3,263,593 for 2024 as compared to $2,978,164 for 2023.
Bulk Segment:
The bulk segment contributed $8,748,052 and $8,742,382 to our income from operations for 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Bulk segment revenue was $33,673,387 and $34,595,058 for 2024 and 2023, respectively. The decrease in bulk revenue from 2023 to 2024 reflects a decrease in the price of energy for CW-Bahamas, which decreased the energy pass-through component of CW-Bahamas’ rates.
Gross profit for our bulk segment was $10,313,027 (31% of bulk revenue) and $10,466,926 (30% of bulk revenue) for 2024 and 2023, respectively. Gross profit as a percentage of revenue increased slightly in 2024 as compared to 2023 due to higher revenue, efficiency improvements at OC-Cayman, and decreases in electricity and fuel costs and depreciation expense that more than offset increased maintenance and insurance expenses.
Bulk segment G&A expenses remained relatively consistent at $1,564,975 for 2024 as compared to $1,737,264 for 2023.
Services Segment:
The services segment contributed $6,392,259 and $26,897,080 to our income from operations for 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Services segment revenue decreased to $50,956,489 for 2024 compared to $97,966,650 for 2023. Construction revenue was $17,637,432 in 2024 as compared to $77,306,704 in 2023. We recognized approximately $8.5 million and $64 million in construction revenue for the Liberty Utilities contract for the construction of a water treatment plant in Goodyear, Arizona in 2024 and 2023, respectively. This contract was completed in mid-2024. Revenue generated under operations and maintenance contracts increased to $29,307,405 in 2024 from $19,368,365 in 2023. Revenue from REC, which was acquired in October 2023, constituted $6,069,342 of this operations and maintenance contracts revenue increase and the remainder of the increase related to new PERC contracts. Design and consulting revenue increased to approximately $4.0 million in 2024 from approximately $1.3 million in 2023.
The gross profit for the services segment decreased to $12,444,954 (24% of services revenue) in 2024 as compared to $31,168,888 (32% of services revenue) for 2023 due to the decrease in construction revenue.
G&A expenses for the services segment increased to $6,055,409 for 2024 as compared to $4,271,808 for 2023 primarily due to incremental G&A expenses of REC (which was acquired in the fourth quarter of 2023) of approximately $1,321,000.
Manufacturing Segment:
The manufacturing segment contributed $2,867,405 and $2,188,418 to our income from operations in 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Manufacturing revenue remained relatively consistent at $17,595,414 and $17,491,474 for 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Manufacturing gross profit was $5,324,212 (30% of manufacturing revenue) for 2024 as compared to a gross profit of $4,024,469 (23% of manufacturing revenue) for 2023. The increase in manufacturing gross profit in dollars and as a percentage of revenue results from a higher margin product mix.
G&A expenses for the manufacturing segment increased to $2,456,807 for 2024 as compared to $1,838,284 for 2023 principally due to an increase in the provision for credit losses of approximately $336,000 in 2024.
Corporate:
Corporate G&A expenses increased slightly to $14,196,652 for 2024 as compared to $13,926,846 for 2023. This increase reflects almost $1.2 million incremental audit, consulting and legal fees arising primarily from the Company’s change in S.E.C. filing status from a small reporting company to an accelerated filer.
Year Ended December 31, 2023 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2022
Discontinued Operations - Mexico Project Development
As discussed previously, on June 30, 2020 the State of Baja California cancelled its APP Contract with AdR for the Project. As a result of the cancellation of the Project we discontinued all development activities associated with the Project, commenced marketing efforts to sell the land NSC purchased for the Project, and initiated international arbitration against
the Government of Mexico to recover the costs we had incurred for the Project. In May 2024, we executed a Settlement Agreement with the State pursuant to which we discontinued the arbitration in exchange for the purchase by the State (i) of the land for the Project for MXN$596,144,000; and (ii) certain documentation for the Project for MXN$20,000,000. We received the proceeds from the sale of the land and documentation in June 2024.
Our net losses from discontinued operations for 2023 and 2022 were ($1,086,744) and ($2,371,049), respectively.
Consolidated Results
Including discontinued operations, net income attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders for 2023 was $29,585,391 ($1.86 per share on a fully diluted basis), as compared to $5,856,294 ($0.38 per share on a fully diluted basis) for 2022.
The following discussion and analysis of our consolidated results of operations and results of operations by segment for the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 relates only to our continuing operations.
Net income from continuing operations attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders for 2023 was $30,672,135 ($1.93 per share on a fully diluted basis), as compared to $8,227,343 ($0.54 per share on a fully diluted basis) for 2022.
Revenue for 2023 increased to $180,211,233 from $94,104,972 in 2022, as all four segments experienced revenue increases. Gross profit for 2023 was $61,927,105 (34% of total revenue) as compared to $30,355,123 (32% of total revenue) for 2022. For further discussion of revenue and gross profit see the “Results by Segment” discussion and analysis that follows.
General and administrative expenses (“G&A expenses”) on a consolidated basis increased to $24,752,366 for 2023 as compared to $21,070,234 for 2022. The most significant increase in G&A expenses for 2023 related to employee costs, which increased by $2,480,517 from 2022 to 2023 due to increased stock compensation, higher bonus accruals, pay raises and new hires. Professional fees also increased by $251,813 from 2022 to 2023. The remainder of the G&A increase was attributable to increases across a variety of categories including the provision for credit losses of $408,489.
Other income, net, increased to $828,313 in 2023, as compared to $464,810 in 2022 due to an increase in interest income of approximately $249,000 primarily due to a higher balance of interest earning assets, and an increase of approximately $68,000 in the equity in earnings of and profit-sharing income from our affiliate, OC-BVI, and an unrealized loss recorded in 2022 of $128,000 for the valuation of the put/call options associated with the initial acquisition of a controlling interest in PERC. We exercised our call option in the fourth quarter of 2022 and acquired the remaining 39% of PERC in January 2023.
Results by Segment
Retail Segment:
The retail segment generated $13,266,942 in income from operations for 2023 compared to $10,756,282 for 2022.
Revenue generated by our retail water operations increased to $30,158,051 in 2023 from $25,954,013 in 2022 principally due to a 15% increase in the volume of water sold. The volume of water sold in the Cayman Water license area increased by 14% and the remaining 1% increase in the volume of water sold was due to water sales made by Cayman Water directly to the WAC in the first quarter of 2023. The sales volume increase reflects increased tourist activity on Grand Cayman, as tourism on the island in 2022 was lower than historical levels due to the lingering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Retail revenue also increased by approximately $1,014,639 due to higher energy costs which increased the energy pass-through component of our retail water rates.
Retail segment gross profit increased to $16,266,822 (54% of retail revenue) for 2023 as compared to $13,405,250 (52% of retail revenue) for 2022 due to the revenue increase.
Retail G&A expenses increased to $2,978,164 for 2023 as compared to $2,609,571 for 2022 primarily due to an increase in employee costs of approximately $164,000 due to pay raises and new hires.
Bulk Segment:
The bulk segment contributed $8,742,382 and $8,393,729 to our income from operations for 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Bulk segment revenue was $34,595,058 and $32,991,066 for 2023 and 2022, respectively. The increase in bulk segment revenue from 2022 to 2023 was attributable to a 6% increase in water volume and an increase in energy costs for CW-Bahamas, which increased the energy pass-through component of CW-Bahamas’ rates.
Gross profit for the bulk segment was $10,466,926 (30% of bulk revenue) and $9,958,854 (30% of bulk revenue) for 2023 and 2022, respectively. Gross profit in dollars increased in 2023 as compared to 2022 principally due to the increase in revenue.
Bulk segment G&A expenses increased to $1,737,264 for 2023 as compared to $1,570,732 for 2022 due to relatively small increases in a variety of expense categories.
Services Segment:
The services segment contributed $26,897,080 and $2,424,217 to our income from operations for 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Services segment revenue increased to $97,966,650 for 2023 compared to $28,835,428 for 2022. Construction revenue increased to $77,306,704 in 2023 from $11,616,274 in 2022 with this increase resulting from (i) PERC’s progress on its contract with Liberty Utilities for the construction of a water treatment plant in Goodyear, Arizona; and (ii) progress on our contract with the WAC for the construction of its Red Gate plant. We recognized approximately $64.0 million in revenue for the Liberty Utilities contract in 2023. Revenue generated under operations and maintenance contracts was $19,368,365 and $14,152,158 in 2023 and 2022, respectively. The increase in operations and maintenance revenue from 2022 to 2023 is attributable to new contracts and increased revenue on existing contracts. Design and consulting revenue generated by the services segment was $1,291,581 and $3,066,996 in 2023 and 2022, respectively. The decrease in design and consulting revenue from 2022 to 2023 is attributable to the work performed in 2022 on the design contract for the Liberty Utilities plant currently under construction.
The gross profit for the services segment was $31,168,888 (32% of services revenue) in 2023 as compared to $5,861,794 (20% of services revenue) for 2022. Gross profit increased from 2022 to 2023 due to the increase in revenue. The increase in gross profit as a percentage of revenue from 2022 to 2023 reflects improved margins on both our construction and operations and maintenance activities.
During 2023, we adjusted our prior year estimates of the total costs to be incurred for the Liberty Utilities contract and one other construction contract. These changes in accounting estimates arose as a result of actual construction costs and efficiencies that differed favorably from our previous expectations. These changes in accounting estimates resulted in an increase in the services segment’s revenue, gross profit and income from operations of $2,356,439 for 2023 under the input method we use to account for construction contracts and were a contributing factor in the increase in gross profit as a percentage of services revenue from 2022 to 2023. This adjustment increased basic and diluted earnings per share by $0.11 for the year ended December 31, 2023.
G&A expenses for the services segment increased to $4,271,808 for 2023 as compared to $3,461,294 for 2022 principally due to an increase of approximately $384,000 in employee costs attributable to pay raises, new hires and increased bonus accruals and the addition of approximately $366,000 in G&A expenses from REC as a result of our acquisition of this company effective October 1, 2023.
Manufacturing Segment:
The manufacturing segment contributed $2,188,418 to our income from operations for 2023 as compared to incurring an operating loss of ($358,748) for 2022.
Manufacturing segment revenue was $17,491,474 and $6,324,465 for 2023 and 2022, respectively. The growth in manufacturing revenue for 2023 reflected increased production activity due to relief in supply chain and economic conditions that had resulted in significant product delivery delays in 2022.
Manufacturing segment gross profit was $4,024,469 (23% of manufacturing revenue) and $1,129,225 (18% of manufacturing revenue) for 2023 and 2022, respectively. The increase in manufacturing gross profit in dollars reflected the increase in revenue. Gross profit as a percentage of revenue increased due to increased revenue and the resulting reduced impact of fixed factory overhead on this financial measure.
G&A expenses for the manufacturing segment increased to $1,838,284 for 2023 as compared to $1,485,342 for 2022 principally due to an increase of approximately $129,000 in employee costs attributable to pay raises, new hires and increased bonus accruals.
Corporate:
Corporate G&A expenses increased to $13,926,846 in 2023 as compared to $11,943,295 in 2022. Primarily as a result of an increase in employee costs of almost $1.6 million. This increase in employee costs is attributable to pay raises as well as increased stock compensation and bonus accruals arising from the Company’s improved financial results from 2022 to 2023.
FINANCIAL CONDITION
The significant changes in the components of our consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2024 as compared to December 31, 2023 (other than the change in our cash and cash equivalents, which is discussed later in “LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES”) and the reasons for these changes are discussed in the following paragraphs.
Accounts receivable increased by approximately $1.4 million primarily due to an increase in CW-Bahamas’ accounts receivable.
Current inventory increased by $2.9 million primarily due to an increase in Aerex’s inventory arising from production activity.
Contract assets decreased by approximately $17.1 million primarily due to a $16.5 million decrease in the services segment contract assets attributable to the completion of the Liberty Utilities and the Red Gate II projects.
Property, plant and equipment, net, decreased by approximately $3.5 million due to the scheduled depreciation of fixed assets.
Construction in progress increased by approximately $4.6 million primarily due to $2.1 million spent on the CW-Bahamas Cat Island plant construction and $1.7 million spent on the new West Bay plant in Cayman Islands.
Operating lease right-of-use assets increased by approximately $1.1 million due to the renewal of the corporate office lease in Cayman Islands.
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities decreased by approximately $2.5 million primarily due to a $4.9 million decrease in subcontractor and other project costs payable for the services segment. This decrease was offset by an increase in Aerex’s accounts payable of approximately $1.4 million as well as an increase in CW-Bahamas’ accrued expenses and purchase orders of approximately $1.2 million.
Contract liabilities increased by approximately $2.9 million primarily due to a $2.6 million increase in the services segment in connection with Kalaeloa Desalco’s contract with the Board of Water Supply of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
Certain transfers from our bank accounts in The Bahamas to our bank accounts in other countries require the approval of the Central Bank of The Bahamas.
The Cayman Islands does not have a tax treaty with the United States. Consequently, should we be required (or elect) to transfer any profits generated by our U.S. subsidiaries from U.S. operations to our company in the Cayman Islands, we would be required to pay a withholding tax of 30% on the amount of any such funds transferred.
Liquidity Position
Our projected liquidity requirements for 2025 include capital expenditures for our existing operations of approximately $10.3 million, which includes $926,000 to be incurred in 2025 for our new West Bay plant and $1.8 million for the expansion of Aerex’s manufacturing facility. We paid approximately $1.8 million for dividends in January 2025. Our liquidity requirements may also include future quarterly dividends, if such dividends are declared by our Board.
As of December 31, 2024, we had cash and cash equivalents of $99.4 million and working capital of $132.8 million.
With the exception of the liquidity matter relating to CW-Bahamas that is discussed in the paragraphs that follow, we are not presently aware of anything that would lead us to believe that we will not have sufficient liquidity to meet our needs.
CW-Bahamas Liquidity
CW-Bahamas’ accounts receivable balance (which include accrued interest) due from the WSC amounted to $28.4 million as of December 31, 2024. Approximately 81% of the December 31, 2024 accounts receivable balance was delinquent as of that date. As of February 28, 2025, this receivable amounted to $22.5 million, of which 77% was delinquent. The delay in collecting these accounts receivable has adversely impacted the liquidity of this subsidiary.
From time to time (including presently), CW-Bahamas has experienced delays in collecting its accounts receivable from the WSC. When these delays occur, we hold discussions and meetings with representatives of the WSC and The Bahamas government, and as a result, payment schedules are developed for WSC’s delinquent accounts receivable. All previous delinquent accounts receivable from the WSC, including accrued interest thereon, were eventually paid in full. Based upon this payment history, we have not provided for a material allowance for credit losses for CW-Bahamas’ accounts receivable from the WSC as of December 31, 2024.
CW-Bahamas held discussions with the WSC in March 2024 and with representatives of The Bahamas Government in April 2024 during which CW-Bahamas was informed that the Government intended to substantially reduce CW-Bahamas’ accounts receivable from the WSC before the end of 2024. This anticipated substantial reduction in CW-Bahamas accounts receivable did not occur over the course of 2024. We continue to be in frequent contact with officials of the Bahamas government, who continue to express their intention to significantly reduce CW-Bahamas accounts receivable balances in the near future, however we cannot provide any assurance as to when such reduction will occur.
In a report dated October 6, 2022, Moody’s Investor Services (“Moody’s”) downgraded The Bahamas’ long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings to B1 from Ba3. Moody’s also lowered The Bahamas’ local currency ceiling to Baa3 from Baa2 and its foreign currency ceiling to Ba1 from Baa3. Moody’s has maintained these ratings through the date of its most current report issued in October 2024. Based upon our review of this Moody’s correspondence, we continue to believe that no material allowance for credit losses is required for CW-Bahamas’ accounts receivable from the WSC.
If CW-Bahamas is unable to collect a sufficient portion of its delinquent accounts receivable, one or more of the following events may occur: (i) CW-Bahamas may not have sufficient liquidity to meet its obligations; (ii) we may be required to
cease the recognition of revenue on CW-Bahamas’ water supply agreements with the WSC; and (iii) we may be required to provide a material allowance for credit losses for CW-Bahamas’ accounts receivable. Any of these events could have a material adverse impact on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
Discussion of Cash Flows for the Year Ended December 31, 2024
Our cash and cash equivalents increased to $99,350,121 as of December 31, 2024 from $42,621,898 as of December 31, 2023.
Cash Flows from Operating Activities
Net cash provided by our operating activities was $36,515,532. This net cash provided reflects net income generated for the year ended December 31, 2024 of $28,815,144 as adjusted for (i) various items included in the determination of net income that do not affect cash flows during the year; and (ii) changes in the other components of working capital. The more significant of such items and changes in working capital components included the gain from the sale of land and project documentation from discontinued operations of $12,134,766, depreciation and amortization of $6,691,658, an increase in accounts receivable of $1,796,919 attributable principally to CW-Bahamas, a decrease in contract assets of $17,082,814 due primarily to the Red Gate and Liberty Utilities construction contracts, an increase in contract liabilities of $2,889,643 and a decrease in accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities of $2,370,274.
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
Net cash provided by our investing activities was $26,961,421 primarily due to the sale of land and project documentation from discontinued operations in Mexico. Cash used for additions to property, plant and equipment and construction in progress was $6,696,580.
Cash Flows from Financing Activities
Net cash used by our financing activities was $6,712,154, almost all of which related to the payment of dividends.
Material Commitments, Expenditures and Contingencies
Cayman Water Retail License
We sell water through our retail operations under a license issued in July 1990 by the Cayman Islands government (the “1990 license”) that granted Cayman Water the exclusive right to provide potable water to customers within its licensed service area. Pursuant to the 1990 license, Cayman Water has the exclusive right to produce potable water and distribute it by pipeline to its licensed service area, which consists of two of the three most populated areas of Grand Cayman Island: Seven Mile Beach and West Bay. In 2024, 2023, and 2022 we generated approximately 24%, 17% and 27%, respectively, of our consolidated revenue and 38%, 26% and 44%, respectively, of our consolidated gross profit from the retail water operations conducted under the 1990 license.
The 1990 license was originally scheduled to expire in July 2010 but was extended several times by the Cayman Islands government to provide the parties with additional time to negotiate the terms of a new license agreement. The most recent express extension of the license expired on January 31, 2018. From that date until February 18, 2025, we continued to operate under the terms of the 1990 license, providing water services to the level and quality specified in the 1990 license and in accordance with our understanding of its legal obligations, treating those obligations set forth in the 1990 license as operative notwithstanding the expiration of the express extension. We continued to pay a royalty of 7.5% of the revenue we collect as required under the 1990 license.
In October 2016, the Government of the Cayman Islands passed legislation which created a new utilities regulation and competition office (“OfReg”). OfReg is an independent and accountable regulatory body with a view of protecting the rights of consumers, encouraging affordable utility services and promoting competition. OfReg, which began operations in January 2017, has the ability to supervise, monitor and regulate multiple utility undertakings and markets. Supplemental
legislation was passed by the Government of the Cayman Islands in April 2017, which transferred responsibility for economic regulation of the water utility sector and the retail license negotiations from the WAC to OfReg in May 2017. We began license negotiations with OfReg in July 2017 and such negotiations are continuing. We have been informed during our retail license negotiations, both by OfReg and its predecessor in these negotiations, that they seek to restructure the terms of our license in a manner that could significantly reduce the operating income and cash flows we have historically generated from our retail license.
Under the new regulatory legislation passed in October 2016, Cayman Water must first be granted a concession by the government before obtaining a new (or renewing the old) retail operations license. On February 18, 2025, Cayman Water received a new concession from the government that authorizes and maintains the terms of the 1990 license until a new license is negotiated and enacted.
We are presently unable to determine what impact the resolution of our retail license negotiations will have on our cash flows, financial condition or results of operations but such resolution could result in a material reduction (or the loss) of the operating income and cash flows we have historically generated from our retail operations and could require us to record impairment losses to reduce the carrying value of our retail segment assets. Such impairment losses could have a material adverse impact on our consolidated financial condition and results of operations.
CW-Bahamas Performance Guarantees
Our contracts to supply water to the WSC from our Blue Hills and Windsor plants require us to guarantee delivery of a minimum quantity of water per week. If the WSC requires the water and we do not meet this minimum, we are required to pay the WSC for the difference between the minimum and actual gallons delivered at a per gallon rate equal to the price per gallon that the WSC is currently paying us under the contract. The Blue Hills contract expires in 2032 and requires us to deliver 63.0 million gallons of water each week. The Windsor contract expires in 2033 and requires us to deliver 16.8 million gallons of water each week. We have been in compliance with the performance guarantees under these contracts for all periods since the inception of the contracts.
Adoption of New Accounting Standards
In November 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures. This ASU updates reportable segment disclosure requirements by requiring disclosures of significant reportable segment expenses that are regularly provided to the Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”) and included within each reported measure of a segment’s profit or loss. This ASU also requires disclosure of the title and position of the individual identified as the CODM and an explanation of how the CODM uses the reported measures of a segment’s profit or loss in assessing segment performance and deciding how to allocate resources. The adoption of ASU 2023-07 did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
Effect of Newly Issued but not yet Effective Accounting Standards
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses. The ASU requires public companies to disclose, in the notes to financial statements, specific information about certain costs and expenses at each interim and annual reporting period. The ASU is effective on a prospective basis for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027.
In January 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-01, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Clarifying the Effective Date. The ASU amends the effective date of ASU 2024-03 to clarify that all business entities are required to adopt the guidance in annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. We are currently evaluating the impact of this guidance.
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. The ASU requires disaggregated information about a reporting entity’s effective tax rate reconciliation as well as additional information on income taxes paid. The ASU is effective on a prospective basis for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted. The adoption of ASU 2023-09 is not expected to have a material impact on our consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
Dividends
● On January 31, 2024, we paid a dividend of $0.095 to shareholders of record on January 2, 2024.
● On April 30, 2024, we paid a dividend of $0.095 to shareholders of record on April 1, 2024.
● On July 31, 2024, we paid a dividend of $0.095 to shareholders of record on July 1, 2024.
● On October 31, 2024, we paid a dividend of $0.11 to shareholders of record on October 1, 2024.
● On January 31, 2025, we paid a dividend of $0.11 to shareholders of record on January 2, 2025.
● On February 18, 2025, our Board declared a dividend of $0.11 payable on April 30, 2025 to shareholders of record on April 1, 2025.
We have paid dividends to owners of our common stock and redeemable preferred stock since we began declaring dividends in 1985. Our payment of any future cash dividends will depend upon our earnings, financial condition, cash flows, capital requirements and other factors our Board of Directors deems relevant in determining the amount and timing of such dividends.
Dividend Reinvestment and Common Stock Purchase Plan
This plan is available to our shareholders, who may reinvest all or a portion of their common stock dividends into shares of common stock at prevailing market prices and may also invest optional cash payments to purchase additional shares at prevailing market prices as part of this plan.
Impact of Inflation
Under the terms of our Cayman Islands license and our bulk water sales agreements in The Cayman Islands, The Bahamas and the British Virgin Islands, our water rates are automatically adjusted for inflation on an annual basis. Therefore, the impact of inflation on our gross profit from these revenue sources, measured in consistent dollars, historically has not been material. However, while we have received annual inflation adjustments for the rates we charge under our bulk water agreements, we have not increased the retail water rates for Cayman Water since January 2018 (despite the inflation that has occurred since that date) due to the lack of a resolution of our negotiations with OfReg for a new retail license. This lack of a rate increase over the long-term could adversely affect the profitability of our retail segment. Furthermore, our manufacturing segment has in the past been adversely impacted by significant increases in raw material costs and our manufacturing and services segments could suffer similar adverse impacts in the future.
While our operations and maintenance contracts are generally adjusted for inflation on an annual basis, such adjustment for some of these contracts is limited to 3% annually.
Kalaeloa Desalco has signed a definitive agreement with the Honolulu Board of Water Supply to design, construct, operate and maintain a 1.7 million gallons per day seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Oahu, Hawaii. Approximately 80% of the $147 million price for the construction of this plant is subject to adjustment based upon changes in inflation indices from the date the contract was executed to the date construction begins.
Increases in fuel and energy costs and other items could create additional credit risks for us, as our customers’ ability to pay our invoices could be adversely affected by such increases.
In periods of high inflation, our consolidated results of operations and cash flows could be materially adversely affected.

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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
ITEM 7A.
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURE ABOUT MARKET RISK
Not applicable.

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
ITEM 8.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
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CONSOLIDATED WATER CO. LTD.
INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID No. 688)
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2024 and 2023
Consolidated Statements of Income for the Years Ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity for the Years Ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Schedule II, Valuation and Qualifying Accounts, is omitted because the information is included in the financial statements and notes.
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Shareholders and Board of Directors of
Consolidated Water Co. Ltd.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB"), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on the criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in 2013 and our report dated March 17, 2025, expressed an adverse opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting because of the existence of a material weakness.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matters
The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
Revenue Recognition - Estimated Costs to Complete
As described in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company recognizes revenue for its construction and custom/specialized manufacturing contracts over time under the input method using costs incurred to date relative to the total estimated costs at completion to measure progress toward satisfying a contract's performance obligations as such measure best reflects the transfer of control of the promised good to the customer. The cost estimation process for these contracts is based on the knowledge and experience of the Company's project managers, engineers, and financial professionals. Changes in job performance, job conditions and management's assessment of expected variable
consideration are factors that influence estimates of the total contract transaction price, total costs to complete those contracts and the Company's revenue recognition.
We identified the estimated costs to complete on these revenue contracts as a critical audit matter. The determination of the total estimated cost and progress toward completion requires management to make significant estimates and assumptions. Total estimated costs to complete projects include various contracts costs that include labor, materials and subcontractor costs. Due to the extended time it may take to complete many of the Company’s contracts and the scope and nature of the work required to be performed on those contracts, the estimations of total revenue and costs at completion is complicated and subject to many variables and, accordingly, are subject to changes. Changes in these estimates can have a significant impact on the revenue recognized each period. Auditing these estimates involved especially challenging auditor judgment in evaluating the reasonableness of management's assumptions and estimates over the duration of these contracts.
The primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter included:
● We obtained an understanding and evaluated the design and implementation of the internal controls over management's process related to estimated costs to complete, including controls over management's review of: (i) the development of project budgets and key cost inputs, (ii) the ongoing assessment and revisions to project budgets, and (iii) the ongoing review of project status, including the nature of activities to complete open projects.
● Evaluating management’s ability to generate reasonable estimated costs to complete through performing a retrospective review of budget to actual variances.
● Assessing the reasonableness of the estimated costs to complete by evaluating the reasonableness of projects budgets and the nature of costs required to complete the project. Evaluation consists of investigating significant differences or unexpected results that take into consideration known changes in client operations, industry, and/or business conditions.
● Assessing the accuracy and the occurrence of the actual cost amount used in the percentage of completion by testing a sample of project costs incurred to date.
● Evaluating the reasonableness of project status by performing site visits and performing inquiries of project managers to assess the nature and costs of activities required to complete the project.
● Assessing the reasonableness of changes in estimated costs to complete by comparing project profitability estimates in the current period to historical estimates and actual performance including during the period under audit and subsequent to the period end and investigating reasons for changes in expected costs and project margins.
/s/ Marcum LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2005.
West Palm Beach, Florida
March 17, 2025
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING
To the Shareholders and Board of Directors of
Consolidated Water Co. Ltd.
Adverse Opinion on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
We have audited Consolidated Water Co. Ltd.’s (the "Company") internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. In our opinion, because of the effect of the material weakness described in the subsequent paragraphs on the achievement of the objectives of the control criteria, the Company has not maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.
A material weakness is a control deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the Company's annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. The following material weakness has been identified and included in “Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting”:
Business process controls (automated and manual) that are dependent on information technology general controls (ITGCs) from January 1, 2024 through October 31, 2024 could have been adversely affected due to the ineffective ITGCs during this time period. Due to the lack of a sufficient time period over which to demonstrate operating effectiveness, certain annual and quarterly business process controls are considered to be ineffective as of December 31, 2024.
This material weakness was considered in determining the nature, timing and extent of audit tests applied in our audit of the fiscal December 31, 2024 financial statements and this report does not affect our report dated March 17, 2025 on those financial statements.
We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”), the balance sheets as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 and the related statements of income, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024 and our report dated March 17, 2025 expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements.
Basis for Opinion
The Company's management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying “Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting”. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audit also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control over Financial Reporting
A company's internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company's internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company's assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of the inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
/s/ Marcum LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2005.
West Palm Beach, Florida
March 17, 2025
CONSOLIDATED WATER CO. LTD.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
December 31,
ASSETS
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents
$
99,350,121
$
42,621,898
Accounts receivable, net
39,580,982
38,226,891
Inventory
8,960,350
6,044,642
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
5,153,984
4,056,370
Contract assets
4,470,243
21,553,057
Current assets of discontinued operations
272,485
211,517
Total current assets
157,788,165
112,714,375
Property, plant and equipment, net
52,432,282
55,882,521
Construction in progress
5,143,717
495,471
Inventory, noncurrent
5,338,961
5,045,771
Investment in affiliates
1,504,363
1,412,158
Goodwill
12,861,404
12,861,404
Intangible assets, net
2,696,815
3,353,185
Operating lease right-of-use assets
3,190,985
2,135,446
Other assets
2,356,489
3,407,973
Long-term assets of discontinued operations
-
21,129,288
Total assets
$
243,313,181
$
218,437,592
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Current liabilities
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities
$
9,057,179
$
11,604,369
Accrued compensation
3,336,946
3,160,030
Dividends payable
1,780,841
1,572,655
Current maturities of operating leases
634,947
456,865
Current portion of long-term debt
126,318
192,034
Contract liabilities
9,126,654
6,237,011
Deferred revenue
365,879
317,017
Current liabilities of discontinued operations
509,745
364,665
Total current liabilities
24,938,509
23,904,646
Long-term debt, noncurrent
70,320
191,190
Deferred tax liabilities
210,893
530,780
Noncurrent operating leases
2,630,812
1,827,302
Other liabilities
153,000
153,000
Total liabilities
28,003,534
26,606,918
Commitments and contingencies
Equity
Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders' equity
Redeemable preferred stock, $0.60 par value. Authorized 200,000 shares; issued and outstanding 44,004 and 44,297 shares, respectively
26,402
26,578
Class A common stock, $0.60 par value. Authorized 24,655,000 shares; issued and outstanding 15,846,345 and 15,771,545 shares, respectively
9,507,807
9,462,927
Class B common stock, $0.60 par value. Authorized 145,000 shares; none issued
-
-
Additional paid-in capital
93,550,905
92,188,887
Retained earnings
106,875,581
85,148,820
Total Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders' equity
209,960,695
186,827,212
Non-controlling interests
5,348,952
5,003,462
Total equity
215,309,647
191,830,674
Total liabilities and equity
$
243,313,181
$
218,437,592
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
CONSOLIDATED WATER CO. LTD.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
Year Ended December 31,
Revenue
$
133,966,633
$
180,211,233
$
94,104,972
Cost of revenue
88,342,185
118,284,128
63,749,849
Gross profit
45,624,448
61,927,105
30,355,123
General and administrative expenses
27,537,436
24,752,366
21,070,234
Gain (loss) on asset dispositions and impairments, net
197,786
(7,112)
(12,704)
Income from operations
18,284,798
37,167,627
9,272,185
Other income (expense):
Interest income
2,094,190
696,408
447,186
Interest expense
(101,847)
(145,284)
(46,545)
Equity in the earnings of affiliates
269,455
169,728
102,225
Loss on put/call options
-
-
(128,000)
Other
131,878
107,461
89,944
Other income, net
2,393,676
828,313
464,810
Income before income taxes
20,678,474
37,995,940
9,736,995
Provision for income taxes
2,218,514
6,750,014
396,739
Net income from continuing operations
18,459,960
31,245,926
9,340,256
Income from continuing operations attributable to non-controlling interests
577,590
573,791
1,112,913
Net income from continuing operations attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders
17,882,370
30,672,135
8,227,343
Net income (loss) from discontinued operations
10,355,184
(1,086,744)
(2,371,049)
Net income attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders
$
28,237,554
$
29,585,391
$
5,856,294
Basic earnings (loss) per common share attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. common stockholders
Continuing operations
$
1.13
$
1.95
$
0.54
Discontinued operations
0.65
(0.07)
(0.16)
Basic earnings per share
$
1.78
$
1.88
$
0.38
Diluted earnings (loss) per common share attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. common stockholders
Continuing operations
$
1.12
$
1.93
$
0.54
Discontinued operations
0.65
(0.07)
(0.16)
Diluted earnings per share
$
1.77
$
1.86
$
0.38
Dividends declared per common and redeemable preferred shares
$
0.41
$
0.36
$
0.34
Weighted average number of common shares used in the determination of:
Basic earnings per share
15,832,328
15,739,056
15,290,509
Diluted earnings per share
15,935,962
15,865,897
15,401,653
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
CONSOLIDATED WATER CO. LTD.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Redeemable
Additional
Total
preferred stock
Common stock
paid-in
Retained
Non-controlling
stockholders’
Shares
Dollars
Shares
Dollars
capital
earnings
interests
equity
Balance as of December 31, 2021
28,635
$
17,181
15,243,693
$
9,146,216
$
87,812,432
$
60,603,056
$
8,086,538
$
165,665,423
Issuance of share capital
9,295
5,577
72,597
43,558
(49,135)
-
-
-
Conversion of preferred stock
(6,585)
(3,951)
6,585
3,951
-
-
-
-
Buyback of preferred stock
(26)
(15)
-
-
(211)
-
-
(226)
Net income
-
-
-
-
-
5,856,294
1,112,913
6,969,207
Exercise of options
3,064
1,838
-
-
24,901
-
-
26,739
Dividends declared
-
-
-
-
-
(5,211,651)
(1,102,475)
(6,314,126)
Stock-based compensation
-
-
-
-
1,417,172
-
-
1,417,172
Balance as of December 31, 2022
34,383
20,630
15,322,875
9,193,725
89,205,159
61,247,699
8,096,976
167,764,189
Issuance of share capital
13,309
7,985
68,864
41,319
(49,304)
-
-
-
Conversion of preferred stock
(8,848)
(5,309)
8,848
5,309
-
-
-
-
Buyback of preferred stock
(203)
(122)
-
-
(1,708)
-
-
(1,830)
Net income
-
-
-
-
-
29,585,391
573,791
30,159,182
Purchase of remaining non-controlling interest in PERC
-
-
368,383
221,030
1,006,248
(3,667,305)
(2,440,027)
Exercise of options
5,656
3,394
2,575
1,544
94,826
-
-
99,764
Dividends declared
-
-
-
-
-
(5,684,270)
-
(5,684,270)
Stock-based compensation
-
-
-
-
1,933,666
-
-
1,933,666
Balance as of December 31, 2023
44,297
26,578
15,771,545
9,462,927
92,188,887
85,148,820
5,003,462
191,830,674
Issuance of share capital
5,904
3,542
68,832
41,299
(44,841)
-
-
-
Conversion of preferred stock
(5,968)
(3,581)
5,968
3,581
-
-
-
-
Buyback of preferred stock
(1,272)
(763)
-
-
(13,851)
-
-
(14,614)
Net income
-
-
-
-
-
28,237,554
577,590
28,815,144
Exercise of options
1,043
-
-
23,127
-
-
23,753
Dividends declared
-
-
-
-
-
(6,510,793)
(232,100)
(6,742,893)
Stock-based compensation
-
-
-
-
1,397,583
-
-
1,397,583
Balance as of December 31, 2024
44,004
$
26,402
15,846,345
$
9,507,807
$
93,550,905
$
106,875,581
$
5,348,952
$
215,309,647
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
CONSOLIDATED WATER CO. LTD.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
Year Ended December 31,
Cash flows from operating activities
Net income attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders
$
28,237,554
$
29,585,391
$
5,856,294
Income from continuing operations attributable to non-controlling interests
577,590
573,791
1,112,913
Net income
28,815,144
30,159,182
6,969,207
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Gain on sale of land and project documentation
(12,134,766)
-
-
Impairment loss for Mexico assets - discontinued operations
-
-
377,326
Foreign currency transaction adjustment - discontinued operations
64,960
(2,003)
(102,507)
Loss from discontinued operations
1,714,622
1,088,747
2,096,230
Depreciation and amortization
6,691,658
6,576,454
6,187,308
Deferred income tax benefit
(319,887)
(524,999)
(4,220)
Provision for credit losses
442,828
408,489
-
Loss on net put/call option
-
-
128,000
Compensation expense relating to stock and stock option grants
1,397,583
1,933,666
1,417,172
(Gain) loss on asset dispositions and impairments, net
(197,786)
7,112
12,704
Equity in earnings of affiliates
(269,455)
(169,728)
(102,225)
Distribution of earnings from OC-BVI
227,250
303,000
272,700
Change in:
Accounts receivable
(1,796,919)
(10,970,521)
303,125
Contract assets
17,082,814
(18,639,335)
(2,423,761)
Inventory
(3,747,675)
(891,405)
(3,387,011)
Prepaid expenses and other assets
(361,359)
(755,391)
(3,365,747)
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities
(2,370,274)
3,161,386
6,756,433
Contract liabilities
2,889,643
(2,566,910)
8,290,043
Operating lease liabilities
(5,207)
(5,205)
(5,208)
Deferred revenue
48,862
1,192
(267,821)
Net cash provided by operating activities - continuing operations
38,172,036
9,113,731
23,151,748
Net cash used in operating activities - discontinued operations
(1,656,504)
(1,142,969)
(1,819,943)
Net cash provided by operating activities
36,515,532
7,970,762
21,331,805
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchase of certificate of deposit
-
-
(2,518,493)
Maturity of certificate of deposit
-
-
5,018,493
Additions to property, plant and equipment and construction in progress
(6,696,580)
(5,047,884)
(7,542,761)
Proceeds from asset dispositions
446,337
20,808
61,725
Investment in affiliate
(50,000)
-
-
Proceeds from Mexican settlement agreement
33,261,664
-
-
Acquisition of REC, net of cash acquired
-
(3,419,916)
-
Purchase of remaining non-controlling interest in PERC
-
(2,440,027)
-
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
26,961,421
(10,887,019)
(4,981,036)
Cash flows from financing activities
Dividends paid to common shareholders
(6,284,645)
(5,472,790)
(5,145,742)
Dividends paid to preferred shareholders
(17,962)
(14,228)
(11,078)
Dividends paid to non-controlling interests
(232,100)
-
(1,102,475)
Buyback of redeemable preferred stock
(14,614)
(1,830)
(226)
Proceeds received from exercise of stock options
23,753
99,764
26,739
Principal repayments on long-term debt
(186,586)
(135,481)
(72,091)
Net cash used in financing activities
(6,712,154)
(5,524,565)
(6,304,873)
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
56,764,799
(8,440,822)
10,045,896
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
42,621,898
50,711,751
40,358,059
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period - discontinued operations
91,283
442,252
750,048
Less: cash and cash equivalents at end of period - discontinued operations
(127,859)
(91,283)
(442,252)
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
$
99,350,121
$
42,621,898
$
50,711,751
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
CONSOLIDATED WATER CO. LTD.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1. Principal activity
Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) supply potable water, treat wastewater and water for reuse, and provide water-related products and services to customers in the Cayman Islands, The Bahamas, the United States and the British Virgin Islands. The Company produces potable water from seawater using reverse osmosis technology and sells this water to a variety of customers, including public utilities, commercial and tourist properties, residential properties and government facilities. The Company designs, constructs and sells water production and water treatment infrastructure and manages water infrastructure for commercial and governmental customers. The Company also manufactures a wide range of specialized and custom water industry related products and provides design, engineering, operating and other services applicable to commercial, municipal and industrial water production, supply and treatment.
2. Accounting policies
Basis of preparation: The consolidated financial statements presented are prepared in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Use of estimates: The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Significant items subject to estimates and assumptions include the carrying value of property, plant and equipment, intangible assets, goodwill and revenue recognition on construction and manufacturing contracts. Actual results could differ significantly from such estimates.
Basis of consolidation: The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company’s (i) wholly-owned subsidiaries, Aerex Industries, Inc. (“Aerex”), Aquilex, Inc. (“Aquilex”), Cayman Water Company Limited (“Cayman Water”), Consolidated Water Cooperatief, U.A. (“CW-Cooperatief”), Consolidated Water U.S. Holdings, Inc. (“CW-Holdings”), DesalCo Limited (“DesalCo”), Kalaeloa Desalco LLC (“Kalaeloa Desalco”), Ocean Conversion (Cayman) Limited (“OC-Cayman”), PERC Water Corporation ("PERC") and Ramey Environmental Compliance, Inc. (“REC”); and (ii) majority-owned subsidiaries Consolidated Water (Bahamas) Ltd. (“CW-Bahamas”), N.S.C. Agua, S.A. de C.V. (“NSC”), and Aguas de Rosarito S.A.P.I. de C.V. (“AdR”). The Company’s investment in its affiliate Ocean Conversion (BVI) Ltd. (“OC-BVI”) is accounted for using the equity method of accounting. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
In 2019 and 2020, CW-Holdings acquired 61% of PERC. In January 2023, CW-Holdings purchased the remaining 39% ownership interest in PERC for $2.4 million in cash, and 368,383 shares of the Company’s common stock having a value of approximately $5.36 million based upon the opening trading price of the Company’s common stock on The Nasdaq Global Market on the date of the transaction.
In September 2021, Kalaeloa Desalco was formed to pursue a project in Oahu, Hawaii. On June 2, 2023, Kalaeloa Desalco signed a definitive agreement with the Honolulu Board of Water Supply to design, construct, operate and maintain a 1.7 million gallons per day seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Oahu, Hawaii.
Effective October 1, 2023, the Company purchased, through its wholly-owned subsidiary PERC, a 100% ownership interest in REC, a Colorado company that operates and maintains water and wastewater treatment facilities and provides technical services to clients throughout the Rocky Mountain and Eastern Plains Regions of Colorado. PERC acquired REC for approximately $4.1 million and recorded goodwill and intangible assets from this acquisition of $2,436,391 and $1,108,390 respectively.
Foreign currency: The Company’s reporting currency is the United States dollar (“US$”). The functional currency of the Company and its foreign operating subsidiaries (other than NSC, AdR, and CW-Cooperatief) is the currency for each respective country. The functional currency for NSC, AdR, and CW-Cooperatief is the US$. NSC and AdR conduct business in US$ and Mexican pesos and CW-Cooperatief conducts business in US$ and euros. The exchange rates for the Cayman Islands dollar and the Bahamian dollar are fixed to the US$. The exchange rates for conversion of Mexican pesos and euros into US$ vary based upon market conditions.
Net foreign currency gains arising from transactions and re-measurements were $74,993, $84,678 and $41,750 for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively, and are included in “Other income - Other” in the accompanying consolidated statements of income.
Cash and cash equivalents: Cash and cash equivalents consist of demand deposits at banks and certificates of deposit at banks with an original maturity of three months or less. Cash and cash equivalents as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 include $5.2 million and $5.1 million, respectively, of certificates of deposit with an original maturity of three months or less.
As of December 31, 2024, the Company had deposits in U.S. banks and brokerages in excess of federally mandated and insured limits of approximately $54.7 million. As of December 31, 2024, the Company held cash in foreign bank accounts of approximately $34.1 million.
Certain transfers from the Company’s Bahamas bank accounts to Company bank accounts in other countries require the approval of the Central Bank of The Bahamas. The equivalent United States dollar cash balances for deposits held in The Bahamas as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 were approximately $7.7 million and $3.0 million, respectively.
Accounts receivable: Accounts receivable are recorded at invoiced amounts based on meter readings, contractual amounts, fixed fees plus reimbursables or time and materials per contractual agreements. Trade accounts receivable also represent our unconditional right, subject only to the passage of time, to receive consideration arising from our performance under contracts with customers. Trade accounts receivable include amounts billed and billable on construction contracts, service and maintenance contracts and contracts for the sale of goods. Billed contract receivables have been invoiced to customers based on contracted amounts.
Allowance for credit losses: The allowance for credit losses is the Company’s best estimate of the amount of probable credit losses in the Company’s existing accounts receivable and contract assets balances. The Company determines the current expected credit losses based on historical loss experience, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts. The Company also considers the nature of the financial asset, the credit quality of the counterparty, and other relevant factors.
Past due balances are reviewed individually for collectability. Account balances are charged off against the allowance for credit losses after all means of collection have been exhausted and the potential for recovery is considered by management to be remote.
Inventory: Inventory primarily consists of consumables stock and spare parts stock that are valued at cost, less an allowance for obsolescence, with cost determined on the first-in, first-out basis. Inventory also includes (i) raw materials purchased for specific manufacturing contracts that are valued at cost on the first-in, first-out basis; and (ii) potable water held in the Company’s reservoirs that is valued at the lower of the average cost of producing water during the year or its net realizable value.
Contract assets and liabilities: Billing practices for the Company’s contracts are governed by the contract terms of each project based upon costs incurred, achievement of milestones or predetermined schedules. Billings do not necessarily correlate with revenue, which is recognized over time using the input method based on cost incurred. The Company records contract assets and contract liabilities to account for these differences in timing.
Contract assets, which include costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings on uncompleted contracts, arise when the Company recognizes revenue for services performed under its construction and manufacturing contracts, but the Company
is not yet entitled to bill the customer under the terms of the contract. Contract liabilities, which include billings in excess of costs and estimated earnings on uncompleted contracts, represent the Company's obligation to transfer goods or services to a customer for which the Company has been paid by the customer or for which the Company has billed the customer under the terms of the contract. Revenue for future services reflected in this account is recognized, and the liability is reduced, as the Company subsequently satisfies the performance obligation under the contract.
Costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings on uncompleted contracts and billings in excess of costs and estimated earnings on uncompleted contracts are typically resolved within one year and are not considered significant financing components.
The Company considers retention that is withheld on progress billings as not creating an unconditional right to payment until contractual milestones are reached (typically substantial completion). Accordingly, withheld retention is considered a component of contracts assets and liabilities until finally billed to the customer, when obligations have been satisfied and the right to receipt is subject only to the passage of time.
The Company’s contract assets and liabilities are reported in a net asset or liability position on a contract-by-contract basis at the end of each reporting period. The Company classifies contract assets and liabilities related to construction and manufacturing contracts in current assets and current liabilities as they will be liquidated in the normal course of contract completion, although this may require more than one year.
Property, plant and equipment, net: Property, plant and equipment is stated at cost less accumulated depreciation. Depreciation is calculated using a straight-line method with an allowance for estimated residual values. Rates are determined based on the estimated useful lives of the assets as follows:
Buildings
5 to 40 years
Plant and equipment
4 to 40 years
Distribution system
3 to 40 years
Office furniture, fixtures and equipment
3 to 10 years
Vehicles
3 to 10 years
Leasehold improvements
Shorter of 5 years or lease term
Lab equipment
5 to 10 years
Assets under construction are recorded as additions to property, plant and equipment upon completion of the projects. Depreciation commences in the month the asset is placed in service. Additions to construction in progress are comprised of the cost of the contracted services, direct labor and materials.
Interest costs directly attributable to the acquisition and construction of qualifying assets, which are assets that necessarily take a substantial amount of time to be ready for their intended use, are added to the cost of those assets until such time as the assets are substantially ready for use. No interest was capitalized during the years ended December 31, 2024 or 2023.
Long-lived assets: Long-lived assets are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets might not be recoverable. Conditions that would necessitate an impairment assessment include a significant decline in the observable market value of an asset, a significant change in the extent or manner in which an asset is used, or a significant adverse change that would indicate that the carrying amount of an asset or group of assets is not recoverable. For long-lived assets to be held and used, the Company recognizes an impairment loss only if their carrying amounts are not recoverable through their undiscounted cash flows and measures the impairment loss based on the difference between the carrying amounts and estimated fair values.
Goodwill and intangible assets: Goodwill represents the excess cost of an acquired business over the fair value of the assets and liabilities of the acquired business as of the date of acquisition. Goodwill and intangible assets recorded as a result of a business combination and determined to have an indefinite useful life are not amortized but are tested for impairment annually or upon the identification of a triggering event. Intangible assets with estimable useful lives are amortized over their respective estimated useful lives to their estimated residual values and reviewed periodically for impairment. The Company evaluates the possible impairment of goodwill annually as part of its reporting process for the fourth quarter of each fiscal year. Management identifies the Company’s reporting units for goodwill impairment testing purposes, which consist of Cayman Water, the bulk segment (which is comprised of CW-Bahamas and OC-Cayman), PERC, REC, and the manufacturing segment (i.e., Aerex), and determines the carrying value of each reporting unit by assigning the assets and liabilities, including the existing goodwill and intangible assets, to those reporting units. The Company determines the fair value of each reporting unit and compares these fair values to the carrying amounts of the reporting units. To the extent the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds the fair value of the reporting unit, an impairment loss is recorded.
For the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company elected to assess qualitative factors to determine whether it was necessary to perform the quantitative goodwill impairment testing that was conducted in prior years for its reporting units. The Company assessed the relevant events and circumstances to evaluate whether it is more likely than not that the fair values of such reporting units were less than their carrying values. The events and circumstances assessed for each reporting unit included macroeconomic conditions, industry and market conditions, cost factors, overall financial performance, and other relevant events. Based upon this qualitative assessment, the Company determined that it is more likely than not that the fair values of its reporting units exceeded their carrying values as of December 31, 2024 and 2023.
For the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company elected to assess qualitative factors to determine whether it was necessary to perform the quantitative goodwill impairment testing conducted in prior years for all reporting units other than the manufacturing reporting unit. The Company assessed relevant events and circumstances to evaluate whether it is more likely than not that the fair values of such reporting units are less than their carrying values. The events and circumstances assessed for each reporting unit included macroeconomic conditions, industry and market conditions, cost factors, overall financial performance, and other relevant events. Based upon this qualitative assessment the Company determined that it was more likely than not that the fair values of its Cayman Water and bulk segment reporting units exceeded their carrying values as of December 31, 2022. Based upon the Company’s negotiated, arms-length purchase of the remaining 39% equity interest in PERC from its minority shareholders for $7.8 million in January 2023, the fair value of the Company’s PERC reporting unit exceeded its carrying value by 79% as of December 31, 2022.
Due to the factors discussed in the following paragraphs, the Company elected to test the goodwill associated with its manufacturing reporting unit for possible impairment for 2022 using the quantitative tests applied in prior years.
Approximately 80% of Aerex’s revenue, and 89% of Aerex’s gross profit, for the year ended December 31, 2020 were generated from sales to one customer. While Aerex sells various products to this customer, Aerex’s revenue from this customer had historically been derived primarily from one specialized product. In October 2020, this customer informed Aerex that, for inventory management purposes, it was suspending its purchases of the specialized product from Aerex following 2020 for a period of approximately one year. This customer informed Aerex at that time that it expected to recommence its purchases of the specialized product from Aerex beginning with the first quarter of 2022. As a result of this anticipated loss of revenue for Aerex, the Company updated its projections for its Manufacturing reporting unit’s future cash flows. Such projections assumed, in part, that Aerex’s major customer would recommence its purchases from Aerex in 2022 but at a reduced aggregate amount, as compared to 2020. Based upon these updated projections, the Company tested its manufacturing reporting unit’s goodwill for possible impairment as of December 31, 2020 using the discounted cash flow and guideline public company methods, with a weighting of 80% and 20% applied to these two methods, respectively. As a result of these impairment tests, the Company determined that the estimated fair value of its manufacturing reporting unit exceeded its carrying value by approximately 31% as of December 31, 2020.
In late July 2021, this former major customer communicated to Aerex that it expected to recommence its purchases of the specialized product from Aerex in 2022 and subsequent years, but informed Aerex that such purchases would be at substantially reduced annual amounts, as compared to the amounts it had purchased from Aerex in 2020 and prior years. The Company’s updated sales estimate for this customer based on this new information was substantially below the
anticipated sales to this customer for 2022 and subsequent years that the Company used in the discounted cash flow projections it prepared for purposes of testing its Manufacturing reporting unit’s goodwill for possible impairment as of December 31, 2020. Furthermore, Aerex’s efforts to replace the revenue previously generated from this customer with revenue from existing and new customers were adversely impacted by the negative economic conditions (caused in part by the COVID-19 pandemic). These negative economic conditions also increased Aerex’s raw material costs, resulted in raw material shortages and extended delivery times for such materials, and adversely affected the overall financial condition of Aerex’s current and prospective customers. Accordingly, in light of this new information from Aerex’s former major customer, and the on-going weak economic conditions that the Company believed would continue through 2022, the Company updated its projections of future cash flows for the manufacturing reporting unit and tested its goodwill for possible impairment as of June 30, 2021 using the discounted cash flow and guideline public company methods, with a weighting of 80% and 20% applied to these two methods, respectively. Based upon this testing, the Company determined that the carrying value of its manufacturing reporting unit exceeded its fair value by $2.9 million, and the Company recorded an impairment loss to reduce its manufacturing segment’s goodwill by this amount for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
For the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company estimated the fair value of its manufacturing reporting unit by applying the discounted cash flow method, which relied upon seven-year discrete projections of operating results, working capital and capital expenditures, along with a terminal value subsequent to the discrete period. These seven-year projections were based upon historical and anticipated future results, general economic and market conditions, and considered the impact of planned business and operational strategies. The discount rates for the calculations represented the estimated cost of capital for market participants at the time of each analysis. The Company also estimated the fair value of its manufacturing reporting unit for the year ended December 31, 2022 by applying the guideline public company method. The Company weighted the fair values estimated for its manufacturing reporting unit under each method and summed such weighted fair values to estimate the overall fair value for the reporting unit. The respective weightings the Company applied to each method for the year ended December 31, 2022 were 80% to the discounted cash flow method and 20% to the guideline public company method.
The fair value the Company estimated for its manufacturing reporting unit exceeded its carrying amount by 63% as of December 31, 2022.
Investments: Investments where the Company does not exercise significant influence over the operating and financial policies of the investee and holds less than 20% of the voting stock are recorded at cost. The Company uses the equity method of accounting for investments in common stock where the Company holds 20% to 50% of the voting stock of the investee and has significant influence over its operating and financial policies but does not meet the criteria for consolidation. The Company recognizes impairment losses on declines in the fair value of the stock of investees that are other than temporary.
Income taxes: The Company accounts for the income taxes arising from the operations of its United States subsidiaries under the asset and liability method. Deferred tax assets and liabilities, if any, are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. A valuation allowance is provided to the extent any deferred tax asset may not be realized.
The Company is not presently subject to income taxes in the other countries in which it operates.
Revenue recognition: Revenue is recognized when control of the promised goods or services is transferred to the Company’s customers, in an amount that reflects the consideration the Company expects to be entitled to in exchange for those goods or services.
The following table presents the Company’s revenue disaggregated by revenue source.
Year Ended December 31,
Retail revenue
$
31,741,343
$
30,158,051
$
25,954,013
Bulk revenue
33,673,387
34,595,058
32,991,066
Services revenue
50,956,489
97,966,650
28,835,428
Manufacturing revenue
17,595,414
17,491,474
6,324,465
Total revenue
$
133,966,633
$
180,211,233
$
94,104,972
Services revenue consists of the following:
Year Ended December 31,
Construction revenue
$
17,637,432
$
77,306,704
$
11,616,274
Operations and maintenance revenue
29,307,405
19,368,365
14,152,158
Design and consulting revenue
4,011,652
1,291,581
3,066,996
Total services revenue
$
50,956,489
$
97,966,650
$
28,835,428
Retail revenue
The Company produces and supplies water to end-users, including residential, commercial and governmental customers in the Cayman Islands under an exclusive retail license issued to Cayman Water by the Cayman Islands government to provide water in two of the three most populated areas on Grand Cayman. Customers are billed on a monthly basis based on metered consumption and bills are typically collected within 30 to 45 days after the billing date. Receivables not collected within 45 days subject the customer to disconnection from water service.
The Company recognizes revenue from retail water sales at the end of the billing cycle based on the water supplied to the customers’ premises. The amount of water supplied is determined and invoiced based upon water meter readings performed at the end of each month. All retail water contracts are month-to-month contracts. The Company has elected the “right to invoice” practical expedient for revenue recognition on its retail water sale contracts and recognizes revenue in the amount to which the Company has a right to invoice, recognizing this revenue from the transfer of goods or services to customers during the billing cycle.
Bulk revenue
The Company produces and supplies water to government-owned utilities in the Cayman Islands and The Bahamas.
OC-Cayman provides bulk water to the Water Authority-Cayman (“WAC”), a government-owned utility and regulatory agency, under three agreements. The WAC in turn distributes such water to properties in Grand Cayman outside of Cayman Water’s retail license area.
The Company sells bulk water in The Bahamas through its majority-owned subsidiary, CW-Bahamas, under two agreements with the Water and Sewerage Corporation of The Bahamas (“WSC”), which distributes such water through its own pipeline system to residential, commercial and tourist properties on the island of New Providence.
The Company has elected the “right to invoice” practical expedient for revenue recognition on its bulk water sale contracts and recognizes revenue in the amount to which the Company has a right to invoice, recognizing this revenue from the transfer of goods or services to customers during the billing cycle.
Services and Manufacturing revenue
The Company designs, constructs, sells, operates and maintains, and provides consulting services related to water, wastewater and water reuse infrastructure through PERC. All of PERC's customers are companies or governmental entities
located in the United States. Effective October 2023, PERC acquired REC, a company that provides operations and maintenance and consulting services to companies and governmental entities located in the state of Colorado.
The Company also provides design, engineering, management, procurement and construction services for desalination infrastructure through DesalCo, which serves customers in the Cayman Islands, The Bahamas and the British Virgin Islands.
The Company, through Aerex, is a custom and specialty manufacturer of systems and products applicable to commercial, municipal and industrial water production and treatment. Substantially all of Aerex’s customers are U.S. companies.
The Company generates construction, operations and maintenance, design and consulting revenue from PERC and DesalCo and generates manufacturing revenue from Aerex. The Company also generates operations and maintenance and consulting revenue from REC.
The Company recognizes revenue for its construction and custom/specialized manufacturing contracts over time under the input method using costs incurred (which represents work performed) to date relative to the total estimated costs at completion to measure progress toward satisfying a contract’s performance obligations as such measure best reflects the transfer of control of the promised good to the customer. Contract costs include labor, materials, subcontractor costs and other expenses. The Company follows this method since it can make reasonably dependable estimates of the revenue and costs applicable to the various stages of a contract. Under this input method, the Company records revenue and recognizes profit or loss as work on the contract progresses. The Company estimates total costs to be incurred and profit to be earned on each long-term, fixed price contract prior to commencement of work on the contract and updates these estimates as work on the contract progresses. The cumulative amount of revenue recorded on a contract at a specified point in time is that percentage of total estimated revenue that incurred costs to date comprised of estimated total contract costs. Due to the extended time it may take to complete many of the Company’s contracts and the scope and nature of the work required to be performed on those contracts, the estimations of total revenue and costs at completion are complicated and subject to many variables and, accordingly, are subject to changes. When adjustments in estimated total contract revenue or estimated total contract costs are required, any changes from prior estimates are recognized in the current period for the inception-to-date effect of such changes. The Company recognizes the full amount of any estimated loss on a contract at the time the estimates indicate such a loss. Any contract assets are classified as current assets. Contract liabilities on uncompleted contracts, if any, are classified as current liabilities.
During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company adjusted its prior year estimates of the total contract costs for two of its construction contracts. These changes in accounting estimates resulted in an increase in the services segment’s income from operations and the Company’s consolidated net income by $2,356,439 and $1,750,750, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2023. This adjustment increased basic and diluted earnings per share by $0.11 for the year ended December 31, 2023.
The Company has elected the “right to invoice” practical expedient for revenue recognition on its operations and maintenance, design and consulting contracts and recognizes revenue in the amount to which the Company has a right to invoice, recognizing this revenue from the transfer of goods or services to customers during the billing cycle.
During the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, the Company recognized $18,211,554, $77,411,792 and $14,146,271, respectively, of its services revenue from the transfer of goods or services to customers over time. The remaining services revenue of $32,744,935, $20,554,858 and $14,689,157, respectively, was recognized from the transfer of goods or services to customers when invoiced. During the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, the Company recognized all of its manufacturing revenue from the transfer of goods or services to customers over time.
Practical Expedients and Exemptions
The Company does not disclose the value of unsatisfied performance obligations for (i) contracts with an original expected length of one year or less and (ii) contracts for which the Company recognizes revenue at the amount to which it has the right to invoice for services performed.
Comparative amounts: Certain amounts presented in the financial statements previously issued for 2023 and 2022 have been reclassified to conform to the current year’s presentation.
3. Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents are not restricted by the terms of the Company’s bank accounts as to withdrawal or use. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the equivalent United States dollars of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents, including those accounts denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, are as follows:
December 31,
Bank accounts:
United States dollar
$
39,094,067
$
15,857,612
Cayman Islands dollar
17,499,492
11,826,102
Bahamian dollar
7,717,705
3,025,898
64,311,264
30,709,612
Short-term deposits:
United States dollar
31,908,220
8,861,606
Cayman Islands dollar
3,130,637
3,050,680
35,038,857
11,912,286
Total cash and cash equivalents
$
99,350,121
$
42,621,898
Transfers from the Company’s Bahamas bank accounts to Company bank accounts in other countries require the approval of the Central Bank of The Bahamas.
4. Accounts receivable, net
December 31,
Trade accounts receivable
$
39,986,234
$
38,446,554
Receivable from OC-BVI
42,515
41,129
Other accounts receivable
373,655
322,609
40,402,404
38,810,292
Allowance for credit losses
(821,422)
(583,401)
Accounts receivable, net
$
39,580,982
$
38,226,891
The activity for the allowance for credit losses consisted of:
December 31,
Opening allowance for credit losses
$
583,401
$
183,214
Provision for credit losses
442,828
408,489
Accounts written off during the year
(205,467)
(9,215)
Recovery of accounts written off
Ending allowance for credit losses
$
821,422
$
583,401
Significant concentrations of credit risk are disclosed in Note 17.
5. Inventory
December 31,
Spare parts stock
$
8,341,395
$
7,747,455
Raw materials
5,828,568
3,135,357
Consumables stock
89,689
166,935
Water stock
39,659
40,666
Total inventory
14,299,311
11,090,413
Less current portion
8,960,350
6,044,642
Inventory (non-current)
$
5,338,961
$
5,045,771
6. Contracts in progress
Revenue recognized and amounts billed on contracts in progress are summarized as follows:
December 31,
Revenue recognized to date on contracts in progress
$
114,590,991
$
108,952,682
Amounts billed to date on contracts in progress
(121,833,354)
(101,724,459)
Retainage
2,585,952
8,087,823
Net contract asset /(liability)
$
(4,656,411)
$
15,316,046
The above net balances are reflected in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet as follows:
December 31,
Contract assets
$
4,470,243
$
21,553,057
Contract liabilities
(9,126,654)
(6,237,011)
Net contract asset /(liability)
$
(4,656,411)
$
15,316,046
The significant decrease in contract assets from December 31, 2023 to December 31, 2024 is attributable to the completion of the construction contract with the WAC for the Red Gate plant in Grand Cayman and the completion of the construction contract with Liberty Utilities for a water treatment facility in Arizona.
During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company adjusted its prior year estimates of the total contract costs for two of its construction contracts. These changes in accounting estimates resulted in an increase in the services segment’s income from operations and the Company’s consolidated net income by $2,356,439 and $1,750,750, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2023. This adjustment increased basic and diluted earnings per share by $0.11 for the year ended December 31, 2023.
As of December 31, 2024, the Company had unsatisfied or partially unsatisfied performance obligations for contracts in progress representing approximately $151.3 million in aggregate transaction price for contracts with an original expected length of greater than one year. The Company expects to earn revenue as it satisfies its performance obligations under those contracts in the amount of approximately $44.2 million during the year ending December 31, 2025 and $107.1 million thereafter. In addition, the Company recognized revenue of approximately $6.2 million in the year ended December 31, 2024, that was included in the contract liability balance as of December 31, 2023.
7. Property, plant and equipment and construction in progress
December 31,
Land
$
6,307,089
$
6,488,400
Buildings
26,033,866
26,044,551
Plant and equipment
61,089,877
66,000,977
Distribution system
40,402,691
39,546,175
Office furniture, fixtures and equipment
3,277,313
3,338,760
Vehicles
3,830,539
3,433,561
Leasehold improvements
306,545
306,545
Lab equipment
12,456
12,456
141,260,376
145,171,425
Less accumulated depreciation
88,828,094
89,288,904
Property, plant and equipment, net
$
52,432,282
$
55,882,521
Construction in progress
$
5,143,717
$
495,471
The Company maintains insurance for loss or damage to all fixed assets that it deems susceptible to loss. During the years ended December 31, 2024, and 2023, $1,395,485 and $7,093,158, respectively, of construction in progress was placed in service. Depreciation expense was $5,855,935, $5,823,008 and $5,425,177 for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
8. Discontinued operations - Mexico project development
In 2010, the Company began the pursuit, through its Netherlands subsidiary, CW-Cooperatief, and its Mexico subsidiary, NSC, of a project (the “Project”) that encompassed the construction, operation and minority ownership of a 100 million gallons per day seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant to be located in northern Baja California, Mexico and accompanying pipelines to deliver water to the Mexican potable water system.
Through a series of transactions that began in 2012, NSC purchased 20.1 hectares of land for approximately $21.1 million on which the proposed Project’s plant was to be constructed.
In November 2015, the State of Baja California (the “State”) officially commenced the public tender for the Project. A consortium (the “Consortium”) comprised of NSC and two other parties submitted its tender for the Project in April 2016 and in June 2016, the State designated the Consortium as the winner of the tender process for the Project.
In August 2016, NSC incorporated a new company under the name AdR to pursue completion of the Project and executed a shareholders agreement for AdR agreeing among other things that (i) AdR would purchase the land and other Project assets from NSC on the date that the Project begins commercial operation and (ii) AdR would enter into a Management and Technical Services Agreement with NSC effective on the first day that the Project begins commercial operation.
On August 22, 2016, the Public Private Partnership Agreement for the Project (the “APP Contract”) was executed between AdR, the State Water Commission of Baja California (“CEA”), and the Government of Baja California, as represented by the Secretary of Planning and Finance and the Public Utilities Commission of Tijuana (“CESPT”). The APP Contract required AdR to design, construct, finance and operate a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant (and accompanying aqueduct) with a capacity of up to 100 million gallons per day in two phases: the first with a capacity of 50 million gallons per day and an aqueduct to the Mexican public water system in Tijuana, Baja California and the second phase with a
capacity of 50 million gallons per day. The first phase was to be operational within 36 months of commencing construction and the second phase was to be operational by January 2025. The APP Contract further required AdR to operate and maintain the plant and aqueduct for a period of 37 years starting from the commencement of operation of the first phase. At the end of the operating period, the plant and aqueduct would have been transferred to CEA.
On June 29, 2020, AdR received a letter (the “Letter”) from the Director General of CEA and the Director General of CESPT terminating the APP Contract. The Letter requested that AdR provide an inventory of the assets that comprised the “Project Works” (as defined in the APP Contract) for the purpose of acknowledging and paying the non-recoverable expenses made by AdR in connection with the Project, with such reimbursement to be calculated in accordance with the terms of the APP Contract. On August 28, 2020, AdR submitted their list of non-recoverable expenses, including those of NSC, to CEA and CESPT which was comprised of 51,144,525 United States dollars and an additional 137,333,114 Mexican pesos.
The Company believed CW-Cooperatief, as a Netherlands company, had certain rights relating to its investments in NSC and AdR under the Agreement on Promotion, Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investments between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Mexican States entered into force as of October 1, 1999 (the “Treaty”). On April 16, 2021, CW-Cooperatief submitted a letter to the President of Mexico and other Mexican federal government officials alleging that the State’s termination of the APP Contract constituted a breach by Mexico of its international obligations under the Treaty, entitling CW-Cooperatief to full reparation, including monetary damages. This letter invited Mexico to seek a resolution of this investment dispute through consultation and negotiation, but stated that if the dispute cannot be resolved in this manner, CW-Cooperatief would refer the dispute to the International Centre for the Settlement of International Disputes for arbitration, as provided for in the Treaty. On June 29, 2021, the Mexican Ministry of Economy responded to CW-Cooperatief’s letter and proposed to hold a consultation meeting. Two such meetings were held on July 9, 2021 and August 2, 2021 on a confidential basis, without a resolution of the Company’s investment dispute.
In February 2022, CW-Cooperatief, filed a Request for Arbitration with the International Centre for Settlement of International Disputes (“ICSID”) requesting that the United Mexican States pay CW-Cooperatief damages in excess of US$51 million plus MXN$137 million (with the exact amount to be quantified in the proceedings), plus fees, costs and pre- and post-award interest.
On May 29, 2024, the Company, through CW-Cooperatief; NSC, and AdR entered into a settlement agreement (the “Settlement Agreement”) with the State and Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos, S.N.C., as trustee under the trust agreement for the trust named Fondo Nacional de Infraestructura (the “Trust”). Under the Settlement Agreement, CW-Cooperatief requested that ICSID discontinue the arbitration and on May 31, 2024, ICSID issued an order discontinuing the arbitration. Pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, the Trust purchased the 20.1 hectares of land on which the Project’s plant was to be constructed, including related rights of way (the “Land”), on an “as-is” basis, from NSC for MXN$596,144,000. The sale of the Land to the Trust was closed on June 14, 2024 at which time the MXN$596,144,000 was paid to the Company and converted at the prevailing exchange rate on that date into US$31,959,685.
In connection with the Settlement Agreement on June 14, 2024, the State also paid NSC MXN$20,000,000 to purchase certain documentation owned by NSC relating to the Project.
As a result of the Settlement Agreement: (i) the parties have been released from all obligations owed to each other in connection with the APP Contract and the arbitration; and (ii) no party to the Settlement Agreement may institute any legal proceedings against another party thereto with respect to the matters which have been addressed by the Settlement Agreement.
The Settlement Agreement and any matter arising out of or in connection with it are governed by the federal laws of Mexico.
The Company’s net income (losses) from discontinued operations for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 were $10,355,184, ($1,086,744) and ($2,371,049), respectively.
Summarized financial information for the discontinued Mexico project development operation is as follows:
December 31,
Cash
$
127,859
$
91,283
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
144,626
120,234
Land
-
21,126,898
Other assets
-
2,390
Total assets of discontinued operations
$
272,485
$
21,340,805
Total liabilities of discontinued operations
$
509,745
$
364,665
Year Ended December 31,
Revenue
$
-
$
-
$
-
Loss from discontinued operations
$
(1,779,582)
$
(1,086,744)
$
(2,371,049)
Gain on sale of land and project documentation
$
12,134,766
$
-
$
-
Depreciation expense
$
-
$
-
$
-
9. Intangible assets
The Company’s purchase transactions for Aerex and PERC identified certain intangible assets. The remaining intangible assets and their respective useful lives are as follows: trade names (15 years) and facility management contracts (6 years).
Effective October 2023, the Company purchased a 100% ownership interest in REC. The purchase transaction identified certain intangible assets with a fair value of $1,108,390 and useful lives as follows: non-compete (5 years), trade name (15 years) and customer relationships (15 years).
The costs and accumulated amortization for these assets were as follows:
December 31,
Cost
Non-compete agreements
$
268,590
$
268,590
Trade names
3,096,900
3,096,900
Customer relationships
442,900
442,900
Facility management contracts
2,200,000
2,200,000
6,008,390
6,008,390
Accumulated amortization
Non-compete agreements
(67,147)
(13,430)
Trade names
(1,313,075)
(1,106,615)
Customer relationships
(36,908)
(7,382)
Facility management contracts
(1,894,445)
(1,527,778)
(3,311,575)
(2,655,205)
Intangible assets, net
$
2,696,815
$
3,353,185
Amortization of intangible assets for each of the next five years and thereafter is expected to be as follows:
$
595,260
289,705
289,705
276,275
235,987
Thereafter
1,009,883
$
2,696,815
Amortization expense was $656,370, $574,093 and $582,778 for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
10. Leases
The Company’s leases consist primarily of leases for office and warehouse space. For leases with terms greater than twelve months, the related asset and obligation are recorded at the present value of the lease payments over the term. Many of these leases contain rental escalation clauses which are factored into the determination of the lease payments when appropriate. When available, the lease payments are discounted using the rate implicit in the lease; however, the Company’s current leases do not provide a readily determinable implicit rate. Therefore, the Company’s incremental borrowing rate is estimated to discount the lease payments based on information available at the lease commencement.
These leases contain both lease and non-lease components, which the Company has elected to treat as a single lease component. The Company elected not to recognize leases that have an original lease term, including reasonably certain renewal or purchase obligations, of twelve months or less in its consolidated balance sheets for all classes of underlying assets. Lease costs for such short-term leases are expensed on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
Effective May 1, 2024, the Company entered into a new office lease for the existing office located in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands under similar terms compared to the prior lease. This new lease has a term of five years from the commencement date with an option for an additional five-year term.
All lease assets denominated in a foreign currency are measured using the exchange rate at the commencement of the lease. All lease liabilities denominated in a foreign currency are remeasured using the exchange rate as of the consolidated balance sheet date.
Lease assets and liabilities
The following table presents the lease-related assets and liabilities and their respective classification on the consolidated balance sheets:
December 31,
ASSETS
Current
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
$
41,801
$
110,541
Noncurrent
Operating lease right-of-use assets
3,190,985
2,135,446
Total lease right-of-use assets
$
3,232,786
$
2,245,987
LIABILITIES
Current
Current maturities of operating leases
$
634,947
$
456,865
Noncurrent
Noncurrent operating leases
2,630,812
1,827,302
Total lease liabilities
$
3,265,759
$
2,284,167
Weighted average remaining lease term:
Operating leases
5.0 years
6.1 years
Weighted average discount rate:
Operating leases
6.56%
5.67%
The components of lease costs were as follows:
Year Ended December 31,
Operating lease costs
$
847,540
$
751,261
$
692,404
Short-term lease costs
361,176
217,640
100,975
Lease costs - discontinued operations
31,946
45,979
40,021
Total lease costs
$
1,240,662
$
1,014,880
$
833,400
Supplemental cash flow information related to leases is as follows:
Year Ended December 31,
Cash paid for amounts included in measurement of liabilities:
Operating cash outflows for operating leases
$
924,461
$
760,847
$
742,696
Operating cash outflows for operating leases - discontinued operations
-
11,337
9,590
Future lease payments relating to the Company's operating lease liabilities from continuing operations as of December 31, 2024 are as follows:
Years ending December 31,
Total
$
836,548
763,783
732,904
749,143
455,209
Thereafter
314,007
Total future lease payments
3,851,594
Less: imputed interest
(585,835)
Total lease obligations
3,265,759
Less: current obligations
(634,947)
Noncurrent lease obligations
$
2,630,812
11. Income taxes
The components of income before income taxes for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022 are as follows:
Year Ended December 31,
Foreign (not subject to income taxes)
$
10,699,269
$
10,002,233
$
6,958,583
Mexico
10,922,374
(742,367)
(987,279)
United States
9,412,015
27,649,330
1,394,642
31,033,658
36,909,196
7,365,946
Discontinued operations
(10,355,184)
1,086,744
2,371,049
$
20,678,474
$
37,995,940
$
9,736,995
The Company’s provision for (benefit from) income taxes for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, which related to U.S. operations, consisted of the following:
Year Ended December 31,
Current:
Federal
$
2,282,566
$
5,611,360
$
430,116
State
255,835
1,663,653
(29,157)
Foreign
-
-
-
Total current income tax expense (benefit)
2,538,401
7,275,013
400,959
Deferred:
Federal
(267,100)
(276,070)
(184,469)
State
(52,787)
(248,929)
180,249
Foreign
-
-
-
Total deferred income tax expense (benefit)
(319,887)
(524,999)
(4,220)
Total provision for (benefit from) income taxes
$
2,218,514
$
6,750,014
$
396,739
A reconciliation of the U.S. statutory federal tax rate to the effective rate for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022 is as follows:
Year Ended December 31,
U.S. statutory federal rate
21.00
%
21.00
%
21.00
%
State taxes, net of federal effect
0.72
%
2.88
%
8.88
%
Foreign rate differential
(11.45)
%
(5.71)
%
(25.57)
%
Research and development tax credit
-
%
-
%
(1.92)
%
Permanent items
0.46
%
(0.32)
%
(0.70)
%
Change in valuation allowance
-
%
(0.08)
%
2.38
%
10.73
%
17.77
%
4.07
%
The tax effects of significant items comprising the Company’s net long-term deferred tax liability as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 were as follows:
December 31,
Continuing Operations
Deferred tax assets:
Net operating loss carryforwards
$
80,285
$
130,911
Accruals and reserves
209,549
146,057
Operating lease liabilities
425,797
501,397
Capitalized research expenditures
316,937
326,178
Others
88,750
29,094
Valuation allowances
-
-
1,121,318
1,133,637
Deferred tax liabilities:
Property and equipment
239,830
325,473
Intangible assets
672,973
847,450
Operating lease right-of-use assets
419,408
491,494
1,332,211
1,664,417
Net deferred tax liabilities
$
(210,893)
$
(530,780)
Discontinued Operations
Deferred tax assets:
Operating loss carryforwards - Mexico
$
-
$
5,844,847
Land basis difference - Mexico
-
2,818,663
Start-up costs - Mexico
-
7,015,484
Valuation allowances
-
(15,678,994)
$
-
$
-
As of December 31, 2024, the Company’s continuing operations have a federal net loss carryforward of approximately $400,000 and a state net loss carryforward of approximately $38,000. The net operating losses (“NOLs”) generated in taxable years beginning before January 1, 2018, may be carried forward up to 20 taxable years. The unused federal NOLs will expire on various dates starting from 2030. For NOLs generated in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, they are carried forward indefinitely until used and never expire.
12. Earnings per share
Earnings per share (“EPS”) is computed on a basic and diluted basis. Basic EPS is computed by dividing net income (less preferred stock dividends) available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. The computation of diluted EPS assumes the issuance of common shares for all potential
common shares outstanding during the reporting period and, if dilutive, the effect of stock options as computed under the treasury stock method.
The following summarizes information related to the computation of basic and diluted EPS:
Year Ended December 31,
Net income from continuing operations attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders
$
17,882,370
$
30,672,135
$
8,227,343
Less: preferred stock dividends
(18,595)
(15,513)
(11,532)
Net income from continuing operations available to common shares in the determination of basic earnings per common share
17,863,775
30,656,622
8,215,811
Income (loss) from discontinued operations
10,355,184
(1,086,744)
(2,371,049)
Net income available to common shares in the determination of basic earnings per common share
$
28,218,959
$
29,569,878
$
5,844,762
Weighted average number of common shares in the determination of basic earnings per common share attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. common stockholders
15,832,328
15,739,056
15,290,509
Plus:
Weighted average number of preferred shares outstanding during the period
44,257
39,885
31,885
Potential dilutive effect of unexercised options and unvested stock grants
59,377
86,956
79,259
Weighted average number of shares used for determining diluted earnings per common share attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. common stockholders
15,935,962
15,865,897
15,401,653
13. Dividends
Interim dividends declared on Class A common stock and redeemable preferred stock for each quarter of the respective years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, were as follows:
First Quarter
$
0.095
$
0.085
$
0.085
Second Quarter
0.095
0.085
0.085
Third Quarter
0.11
0.095
0.085
Fourth Quarter
0.11
0.095
0.085
$
0.41
$
0.36
$
0.34
14. Segment information
The Company has five reportable segments: retail, bulk, services, manufacturing and corporate. The retail segment operates the water utility for the Seven Mile Beach and West Bay areas of Grand Cayman pursuant to an exclusive license granted by the Cayman Islands government. The bulk segment supplies potable water to government utilities in Grand Cayman and The Bahamas under long-term contracts. The services segment designs, constructs and sells water infrastructure and provides management and operating services to third parties. The manufacturing segment manufactures and services a wide range of custom and specialized water-related products applicable to commercial, municipal and industrial water production, supply and treatment. The corporate segment consists of various expenses of a general and administrative nature incurred at the parent company level, as well as the expenses incurred by Aquilex, a U.S. subsidiary that provides financial, engineering, information technology, administrative and supply chain management support services to all the Company’s subsidiaries and its affiliate.
Frederick W. McTaggart, Chief Executive Officer and President, is the Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”).
For the retail, bulk, services, and manufacturing segments, the CODM uses revenue, gross profit, and income before income taxes to assess segment performance and in deciding the allocation of resources to each segment. The CODM considers actual versus budget and current period versus prior period variances on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis for each of these financial measures. The CODM also considers variances from budget and prior period for major corporate expenses (such as employee costs, insurance and professional fee) when making decisions regarding capital and resource allocation.
The accounting policies of the segments are consistent with those described in Note 2. All intercompany transactions are eliminated for segment presentation purposes. Intersegment revenue transactions are insignificant to the Company and are eliminated. Segment information previously disclosed in 2023 and 2022 did not separately disclose those expenses currently reported in the corporate segment, as such expenses were previously included in the retail segment. The 2023 and 2022 segment information provided herein has been recast to conform to the current period presentation.
The Company’s segments are strategic business units that are managed separately because each segment sells different products and/or services, serves customers with distinctly different needs and generates different gross profit margins. The Company’s income statements by segment, significant segment expenses, and segment assets are presented below.
Year Ended December 31, 2024
Retail
Bulk
Services
Manufacturing
Corporate
Total
Revenue
$
31,741,343
$
33,673,387
$
50,956,489
$
17,595,414
$
-
$
133,966,633
Cost of revenue
14,199,088
23,360,360
38,511,535
12,271,202
-
88,342,185
Gross profit
17,542,255
10,313,027
12,444,954
5,324,212
-
45,624,448
General and administrative expenses
3,263,593
1,564,975
6,055,409
2,456,807
14,196,652
27,537,436
Gain on asset dispositions and impairments, net
2,286
-
2,714
-
192,786
197,786
Income (loss) from operations
14,280,948
8,748,052
6,392,259
2,867,405
(14,003,866)
18,284,798
Interest income
198,180
865,584
458,732
571,690
2,094,190
Interest expense
(93,368)
-
(8,409)
-
(70)
(101,847)
Income from affiliates
-
-
-
16,701
252,754
269,455
Other
78,647
39,625
(5,634)
11,993
7,247
131,878
Other income, net
183,459
905,209
444,689
28,698
831,621
2,393,676
Income (loss) before income taxes
14,464,407
9,653,261
6,836,948
2,896,103
(13,172,245)
20,678,474
Provision for income taxes
-
-
1,528,398
672,040
18,076
2,218,514
Net income (loss) from continuing operations
14,464,407
9,653,261
5,308,550
2,224,063
(13,190,321)
18,459,960
Income from continuing operations attributable to non-controlling interests
-
577,590
-
-
-
577,590
Net income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders
$
14,464,407
$
9,075,671
$
5,308,550
$
2,224,063
$
(13,190,321)
17,882,370
Net income from discontinued operations
10,355,184
Net income attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders
$
28,237,554
The Company’s cost of revenue consists of:
Year Ended December 31, 2024
Retail
Bulk
Services
Manufacturing
Corporate
Total
Subcontractor and other project costs
$
-
$
3,787
$
20,366,236
$
9,535,078
$
-
$
29,905,101
Employee costs
2,895,606
2,069,920
17,062,858
2,042,518
-
24,070,902
Electricity
4,755,308
3,864,863
212,337
33,551
-
8,866,059
Fuel oil
-
8,330,914
-
-
-
8,330,914
Depreciation
2,427,254
2,689,432
364,473
160,211
-
5,641,370
Maintenance
877,882
2,138,584
439,883
344,042
-
3,800,391
Insurance
686,073
1,721,846
38,408
-
-
2,446,327
Retail license royalties
1,945,470
-
-
-
-
1,945,470
Other
611,495
2,541,014
27,340
155,802
-
3,335,651
$
14,199,088
$
23,360,360
$
38,511,535
$
12,271,202
$
-
$
88,342,185
Other cost of revenue segment expenses above primarily include chemicals and other supplies, government fees and licenses, and freight costs.
The Company’s general and administrative expenses consist of:
Year Ended December 31, 2024
Retail
Bulk
Services
Manufacturing
Corporate
Total
Employee costs
$
1,555,619
$
375,479
$
3,443,005
$
1,286,141
$
8,031,817
$
14,692,061
Professional fees
85,739
82,452
646,610
133,229
2,448,386
3,396,416
Insurance
417,604
384,932
214,983
215,241
834,612
2,067,372
Depreciation and amortization
37,691
25,086
630,544
103,674
73,940
870,935
Other
1,166,940
697,026
1,120,267
718,522
2,807,897
6,510,652
$
3,263,593
$
1,564,975
$
6,055,409
$
2,456,807
$
14,196,652
$
27,537,436
Other general and administrative segment expenses primarily include Board of Directors fees and expenses, maintenance, office rent, amortization of intangible assets, and investor relations costs.
As of December 31, 2024
Retail
Bulk
Services
Manufacturing
Corporate
Total
Cash and cash equivalents
$
19,167,484
$
13,339,206
$
34,181,902
$
4,768,376
$
27,893,153
$
99,350,121
Accounts receivable, net
$
3,223,190
$
28,807,257
$
6,593,276
$
946,846
$
10,413
$
39,580,982
Inventory, current and non-current
$
3,437,771
$
4,865,117
$
167,856
$
5,828,567
$
-
$
14,299,311
Contract assets
$
-
$
-
$
1,204,522
$
3,265,721
$
-
$
4,470,243
Property, plant and equipment, net
$
31,689,586
$
18,093,155
$
858,352
$
1,601,501
$
189,688
$
52,432,282
Construction in progress
$
1,951,559
$
2,480,999
$
-
$
711,159
$
-
$
5,143,717
Intangibles, net
$
-
$
-
$
2,129,037
$
567,778
$
-
$
2,696,815
Goodwill
$
1,170,511
$
1,948,875
$
7,756,807
$
1,985,211
$
-
$
12,861,404
Total segment assets
$
62,994,011
$
71,743,161
$
56,792,772
$
20,095,648
$
31,415,104
$
243,040,696
Assets of discontinued operations
$
272,485
Total assets
$
243,313,181
Year Ended December 31, 2023
Retail
Bulk
Services
Manufacturing
Corporate
Total
Revenue
$
30,158,051
$
34,595,058
$
97,966,650
$
17,491,474
$
-
$
180,211,233
Cost of revenue
13,891,229
24,128,132
66,797,762
13,467,005
-
118,284,128
Gross profit
16,266,822
10,466,926
31,168,888
4,024,469
-
61,927,105
General and administrative expenses
2,978,164
1,737,264
4,271,808
1,838,284
13,926,846
24,752,366
Gain (loss) on asset dispositions and impairments, net
(21,716)
12,720
-
2,233
(349)
(7,112)
Income (loss) from operations
13,266,942
8,742,382
26,897,080
2,188,418
(13,927,195)
37,167,627
Interest income
181,468
362,422
151,706
696,408
Interest expense
(123,867)
-
(21,417)
-
-
(145,284)
Income from affiliate
-
-
-
-
169,728
169,728
Other
93,795
10,793
1,024
2,020
(171)
107,461
Other income, net
151,396
373,215
131,313
2,024
170,365
828,313
Income (loss) before income taxes
13,418,338
9,115,597
27,028,393
2,190,442
(13,756,830)
37,995,940
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
-
-
6,388,457
440,111
(78,554)
6,750,014
Net income (loss) from continuing operations
13,418,338
9,115,597
20,639,936
1,750,331
(13,678,276)
31,245,926
Income from continuing operations attributable to non-controlling interests
-
573,791
-
-
-
573,791
Net income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders
$
13,418,338
$
8,541,806
$
20,639,936
$
1,750,331
$
(13,678,276)
30,672,135
Net loss from discontinued operations
(1,086,744)
Net income attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders
$
29,585,391
The Company’s cost of revenue consists of:
Year Ended December 31, 2023
Retail
Bulk
Services
Manufacturing
Corporate
Total
Subcontractor and other project costs
$
-
$
-
$
53,830,817
$
10,869,688
$
-
$
64,700,505
Employee costs
2,797,130
1,927,313
12,311,403
1,899,167
-
18,935,013
Electricity
4,846,974
4,306,439
301,247
48,006
-
9,502,666
Fuel oil
-
9,024,836
-
-
-
9,024,836
Depreciation
2,376,747
2,831,368
256,537
168,347
-
5,632,999
Maintenance
845,596
1,705,585
83,998
357,693
-
2,992,872
Insurance
587,238
1,468,508
5,751
-
-
2,061,497
Retail license royalties
1,842,924
-
-
-
-
1,842,924
Other
594,620
2,864,083
8,009
124,104
-
3,590,816
$
13,891,229
$
24,128,132
$
66,797,762
$
13,467,005
$
-
$
118,284,128
Other cost of revenue segment expenses above primarily include chemicals and other supplies, government fees and licenses, and freight costs.
The Company’s general and administrative expenses consist of:
Year Ended December 31, 2023
Retail
Bulk
Services
Manufacturing
Corporate
Total
Employee costs
$
1,485,647
$
359,923
$
2,529,548
$
1,071,012
$
8,244,023
$
13,690,153
Professional fees
122,067
93,754
422,196
88,882
1,285,193
2,012,092
Insurance
351,259
341,391
127,993
196,539
886,674
1,903,856
Depreciation and amortization
38,883
22,180
528,810
105,013
69,216
764,102
Other
980,308
920,016
663,261
376,838
3,441,740
6,382,163
$
2,978,164
$
1,737,264
$
4,271,808
$
1,838,284
$
13,926,846
$
24,752,366
Other general and administrative segment expenses primarily include Board of Directors fees and expenses, maintenance, office rent, amortization of intangible assets, and investor relations costs.
As of December 31, 2023
Retail
Bulk
Services
Manufacturing
Corporate
Total
Cash and cash equivalents
$
10,982,982
$
7,932,485
$
18,080,724
$
2,879,665
$
2,746,042
$
42,621,898
Accounts receivable, net
$
3,409,973
$
26,965,126
$
6,802,780
$
1,033,037
$
15,975
$
38,226,891
Inventory, current and non-current
$
3,041,460
$
4,858,324
$
55,272
$
3,135,357
$
-
$
11,090,413
Contract assets
$
-
$
-
$
17,715,872
$
3,837,185
$
-
$
21,553,057
Property, plant and equipment, net
$
32,318,148
$
20,370,056
$
1,143,884
$
1,559,094
$
491,339
$
55,882,521
Construction in progress
$
380,436
$
-
$
-
$
115,035
$
-
$
495,471
Intangibles, net
$
-
$
-
$
2,692,074
$
661,111
$
-
$
3,353,185
Goodwill
$
1,170,511
$
1,948,875
$
7,756,807
$
1,985,211
$
-
$
12,861,404
Total segment assets
$
52,120,112
$
63,956,725
$
58,476,773
$
15,888,642
$
6,654,535
$
197,096,787
Assets of discontinued operations
$
21,340,805
Total assets
$
218,437,592
Year Ended December 31, 2022
Retail
Bulk
Services
Manufacturing
Corporate
Total
Revenue
$
25,954,013
$
32,991,066
$
28,835,428
$
6,324,465
$
-
$
94,104,972
Cost of revenue
12,548,763
23,032,212
22,973,634
5,195,240
-
63,749,849
Gross profit
13,405,250
9,958,854
5,861,794
1,129,225
-
30,355,123
General and administrative expenses
2,609,571
1,570,732
3,461,294
1,485,342
11,943,295
21,070,234
Gain (loss) on asset dispositions and impairments, net
(39,397)
5,607
23,717
(2,631)
-
(12,704)
Income (loss) from operations
10,756,282
8,393,729
2,424,217
(358,748)
(11,943,295)
9,272,185
Interest income
131,403
313,232
2,441
447,186
Interest expense
(31,748)
-
(14,797)
-
-
(46,545)
Income from affiliate
-
-
-
-
102,225
102,225
Net loss on put/call options
-
-
(128,000)
-
-
(128,000)
Other
83,682
1,865
1,803
1,812
89,944
Other income (loss), net
183,337
315,097
(138,553)
104,146
464,810
Income (loss) before income taxes
10,939,619
8,708,826
2,285,664
(357,965)
(11,839,149)
9,736,995
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
-
-
458,659
(61,920)
-
396,739
Net income (loss) from continuing operations
10,939,619
8,708,826
1,827,005
(296,045)
(11,839,149)
9,340,256
Income from continuing operations attributable to non-controlling interests
-
558,353
554,560
-
-
1,112,913
Net income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders
$
10,939,619
$
8,150,473
$
1,272,445
$
(296,045)
$
(11,839,149)
8,227,343
Net loss from discontinued operations
(2,371,049)
Net income attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. stockholders
$
5,856,294
The Company’s cost of revenue consists of:
Year Ended December 31, 2022
Retail
Bulk
Services
Manufacturing
Corporate
Total
Subcontractor and other project costs
$
-
$
-
$
14,380,940
$
3,436,343
$
-
$
17,817,283
Employee costs
2,759,588
1,831,305
8,156,016
1,289,208
-
14,036,117
Electricity
4,063,303
2,594,723
278,629
38,474
-
6,975,129
Fuel oil
-
10,203,690
-
-
-
10,203,690
Depreciation
2,281,584
2,645,691
155,237
178,951
-
5,261,463
Maintenance
878,880
1,717,319
-
190,059
-
2,786,258
Insurance
501,508
1,280,825
-
-
-
1,782,333
Retail license royalties
1,590,250
-
-
-
-
1,590,250
Other
473,650
2,758,659
2,812
62,205
-
3,297,326
$
12,548,763
$
23,032,212
$
22,973,634
$
5,195,240
$
-
$
63,749,849
Other cost of revenue segment expenses above primarily include chemicals and other supplies, government fees and licenses, and freight costs.
The Company’s general and administrative expenses consist of:
Year Ended December 31, 2022
Retail
Bulk
Services
Manufacturing
Corporate
Total
Employee costs
$
1,321,660
$
332,023
$
1,966,493
$
941,680
$
6,647,780
$
11,209,636
Professional fees
55,756
127,400
286,802
14,736
1,275,585
1,760,279
Insurance
301,306
291,430
336,832
168,486
969,571
2,067,625
Depreciation and amortization
36,544
11,750
519,271
105,452
73,475
746,492
Other
894,305
808,129
351,896
254,988
2,976,884
5,286,202
$
2,609,571
$
1,570,732
$
3,461,294
$
1,485,342
$
11,943,295
$
21,070,234
Other general and administrative segment expenses primarily include Board of Directors fees and expenses, maintenance, office rent, amortization of intangible assets, and investor relations costs.
Revenue earned by major geographic region was:
Year ended December 31,
Cayman Islands
$
37,137,424
$
41,728,340
$
30,375,985
The Bahamas
29,675,947
31,221,633
29,943,615
United States
66,662,406
106,768,621
33,338,466
Revenue earned from management services agreement with OC-BVI
490,856
492,639
446,906
$
133,966,633
$
180,211,233
$
94,104,972
Revenue earned from major customers was:
Year ended December 31,
Revenue earned from the WSC
$
29,675,947
$
31,221,633
$
29,943,615
Percentage of consolidated revenue earned from the WSC
22%
17%
32%
Revenue earned from one service segment customer
$
-
$
64,149,170
$
11,805,752
Percentage of consolidated revenue earned from the one service segment customer
0%
36%
13%
Property, plant and equipment, net by major geographic region was:
December 31,
Cayman Islands
$
31,882,111
$
32,902,949
The Bahamas
17,903,191
20,039,049
United States
2,646,980
2,940,523
$
52,432,282
$
55,882,521
15. Stock-based compensation
The Company has the following stock compensation plans that form part of its employees’ and Directors’ remuneration:
Employee Share Incentive Plan (Preferred Stock)
Employees (i.e., other than Directors and Officers), after four consecutive years of employment, become eligible to receive shares of the Company’s preferred stock for $nil consideration under the Company’s Employee Share Incentive Plan. Once an individual becomes eligible for this plan, they are awarded shares of preferred stock in the month of June following their date of eligibility for the plan (the “grant date”) and in June of each subsequent year of the individual's employment for as long as the individual remains employed with the Company. If the employee remains with the Company through the fourth anniversary of a grant date, the preferred stock can be converted into shares of the Company’s common stock on a one for one basis. In addition, at the time the preferred stock is granted, the employee receives options to purchase an equal number of shares of preferred stock at a discount to the average trading price of the Company’s common stock for the first seven days of the October immediately preceding the date of the preferred stock grant. If these options are exercised, the shares of preferred stock obtained may also be converted to shares of common stock if the employee remains with the Company through the fourth anniversary of a grant date. Each employee’s option to purchase shares of preferred stock must be exercised within 30 days of the grant date, which is the 90th day after the date of the independent registered public accountants’ audit opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. Shares of preferred stock not subsequently converted to shares of common stock are redeemable only at the discretion of the Company. Shares of preferred stock granted under this plan during the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 totaled 5,904, 13,309 and 9,295, respectively, and an equal number of preferred stock options were granted in each of these years.
Employee Share Option Plan (Common Stock Options)
The Company has an employee stock option plan for four long-serving employees of the Company. Under the plan, these employees are granted in each calendar year, as long as the employee is a participant in the Employee Share Incentive
Plan, options to purchase common shares. The price at which the option may be exercised is the closing market price on the grant date, which is the 40th day after the date of the Company’s Annual Shareholder Meeting. The number of options each employee is granted is equal to five times the sum of (i) the number of shares of preferred stock that employee receives for $nil consideration and (ii) the number of preferred stock options that employee exercises in that given year. Options may be exercised during the period commencing on the fourth anniversary of the grant date and ending on the 30th day after the fourth anniversary of the grant date. Options granted under this plan during the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 totaled 1,300, 3,010 and 3,665, respectively.
The fair value of each option award is estimated on the date of grant using a Black-Scholes option-pricing model that uses the assumptions noted in the table below. Expected volatilities are based on historical volatilities of the Company’s common stock. The expected term of options granted is based on historical data and represents the period of time that options granted are expected to be outstanding. The Company uses historical data to estimate stock option exercises and forfeitures within its valuation model. The risk-free interest rate for the expected term of the option is based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of the grant.
2008 Equity Incentive Plan
On May 14, 2008, the Company’s stockholders approved the 2008 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2008 Plan”) and reserved 1,500,000 shares of the Company’s Class A common shares for issuance under this plan. All Directors, executives and key employees of the Company or its affiliates are eligible for participation in the 2008 Plan which provides for the issuance of options, restricted stock and stock equivalents at the discretion of the Board.
The Company measures and recognizes compensation expense at fair value for all share-based payments, including stock options. Stock-based compensation for the Employee Share Incentive Plan, Employee Share Option Plan and the 2008 Equity Incentive Plan totaled $142,566, $703,289 and $386,260 for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and is included in general and administrative expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of income.
The significant weighted average assumptions for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 were as follows:
Risk free interest rate
5.23
%
5.06
%
1.64
Expected option life (years)
0.8
1.0
1.2
Expected volatility
32.93
%
42.42
%
47.15
Expected dividend yield
1.48
%
1.60
%
2.35
A summary of the Company’s stock option activity for the year ended December 31, 2024 is as follows:
Weighted
Weighted
Average
Average
Remaining
Aggregate
Exercise
Contractual
Intrinsic
Options
Price
Life (Years)
Value (1)
Outstanding at beginning of period
12,175
$
16.08
Granted
7,204
23.24
Exercised
(1,043)
22.77
Forfeited/expired
(4,861)
22.77
Outstanding as of December 31, 2024
13,475
$
16.97
1.51
years
$
120,136
Exercisable as of December 31, 2024
-
$
-
-
years
$
-
(1) The intrinsic value of a stock option represents the amount by which the fair value of the underlying stock, measured by reference to the closing price of the common shares of $25.89 on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on December 31, 2024, exceeds the exercise price of the option.
As of December 31, 2024, 13,475 non-vested options were outstanding, with weighted average exercise price of $16.97, and average remaining contractual life of 1.51 years. The total remaining unrecognized compensation costs related to unvested stock-based arrangements were $32,423 as of December 31, 2024, and are expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.51 years.
The following table summarizes the weighted average fair value of options at the date of grant and the intrinsic value of options exercised during the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022:
Options granted with an exercise price below market price on the date of grant:
Employees - preferred stock
$
2.58
$
12.21
$
5.58
Overall weighted average
2.58
12.21
5.58
Options granted with an exercise price at market price on the date of grant:
Management employees
$
-
$
-
$
-
Employees - common stock
8.50
8.29
4.32
Overall weighted average
8.50
8.29
4.32
Options granted with an exercise price above market price on the date of grant:
Management employees
$
-
$
-
$
-
Employees - preferred stock
-
-
-
Overall weighted average
-
-
-
Total intrinsic value of options exercised
$
2,482
$
104,559
$
17,158
Senior Management Long-Term Incentive Compensation
The Board of Directors has established the long-term incentive compensation for the Company’s senior management to better align the interests of its senior management with those of its shareholders. The long-term compensation plan includes a combination of performance and non-performance-based grants of common stock from the shares of Company stock provided for issuance under the 2008 Equity Incentive Plan.
The non-performance-based stock grant rights, which are issued on January 1 of each year, vest in one-third increments at the end of each year over a three-year period. The number of non-performance-based stock grant rights issued on the first stock trading day of January 2024, 2023, and 2022, were 12,837, 29,508 and 32,265, respectively. These stock grant rights vest in one-third increments over the three-year periods ending December 31, 2026, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The total number of vested shares issued under prior years’ non-performance stock grant rights totaled 29,392, 25,986 and 23,411 in the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, the Company recognized $412,520, $366,058 and $325,270 in stock-based compensation expense, respectively, related to the incremental vesting of the non-performance stock grant rights.
The performance-based grants may be earned at the end of each year based upon the Company's three-year cumulative financial performance relative to three-year cumulative financial performance targets. The Company recognized $509,357, $522,925 and $335,964 in stock-based compensation for the year ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively, related to these grants.
A total of 41,889 stock grant rights were earned as of December 31, 2024, based upon the Company’s actual financial performance relative to the cumulative financial performance targets for the three-year period ended December 31, 2024. The shares associated with these grants will be issued in 2025.
A total of 26,742 stock grant rights were earned as of December 31, 2023, based upon the Company’s actual financial performance relative to the cumulative financial performance targets for the three-year period ended December 31, 2023. The shares associated with these grants were issued in 2024.
A total of 13,797 stock grant rights were earned as of December 31, 2022, based upon the Company’s actual financial performance relative to the cumulative financial performance targets for the three-year period ended December 31, 2022. The shares associated with these grants were issued in 2023.
Non-Executive Directors’ Share Plan
This stock grant plan provides part of the Directors’ remuneration. Under this plan, non-Executive Directors receive a combination of cash and common stock for their participation in Board meetings. The number of shares of common stock granted is calculated based upon the market price of the Company’s common stock on October 1 of the year preceding the grant. Common stock granted under this plan during the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, totaled 11,448, 22,831 and 30,767 shares, respectively. The Company recognized stock-based compensation for these share grants of $333,140, $341,394 and $369,678 for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
16. Retirement benefits
Retirement plans are offered to all employees in California, Florida, Colorado, the Cayman Islands and The Bahamas. The plans are administered by third parties and are defined contribution plans pursuant to which the Company matches participating employees’ contributions up to certain amounts. The Company’s expense for these plans was $898,457, $771,616 and $624,798 for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively.
17. Financial instruments
Credit risk:
The Company is not exposed to significant credit risk on its retail customer accounts as its policy is to cease supply of water to customers’ accounts that are more than 45 days overdue. The Company’s exposure to credit risk is concentrated on receivables from its bulk water, services, and manufacturing customers. The Company considers these receivables fully collectible and therefore has not recorded a material allowance for these receivables.
Interest rate risk:
The Company is not subject to significant interest rate risk arising from fluctuations in interest rates.
Foreign exchange risk:
All relevant foreign currencies other than the Mexican peso and the euro have been fixed to the dollar for more than 50 years and as a result, the Company does not employ a hedging strategy against exchange rate risk associated with the reporting in dollars. If any of these fixed exchange rates become a floating exchange rate or if any of the foreign currencies in which the Company conducts business depreciate significantly against the dollar, the Company’s consolidated results of operations could be adversely affected.
Fair values:
As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the carrying amounts of cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable, accrued expenses, accrued compensation, dividends payable and other current liabilities approximate their fair values due to the short-term maturities of these instruments.
Under US GAAP, fair value is defined as the exit price, or the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants as of the measurement date. US GAAP guidance also establishes a hierarchy for inputs used in measuring fair value that maximizes the use of observable inputs and minimizes the use of unobservable inputs by requiring that the most observable inputs be used when available. Observable inputs are inputs market participants would use in valuing the asset or liability and are developed based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Company. Unobservable inputs are inputs that reflect the Company’s
assumptions about the factors market participants would use in valuing the asset or liability. The guidance establishes three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value:
Level 1 - Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
Level 2 - Inputs other than Level 1 that are observable, either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
Level 3 - Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.
Assets and liabilities are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurements. The Company reviews its fair value hierarchy classifications on a quarterly basis. Changes in the observability of valuation inputs may result in a reclassification of levels for certain securities within the fair value hierarchy.
As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company does not have assets and liabilities measured at fair value to present in the fair value hierarchy.
18. Commitments and contingencies
Commitments
The Company has entered into employment agreements with certain executives, which expire through December 31, 2027 and provide for, among other things, base annual salaries in an aggregate amount of approximately $5.2 million, performance bonuses and various employee benefits.
The Company has purchase obligations totaling approximately $15.6 million through December 31, 2025.
Contingencies
Cayman Water
The Company sells water through its Cayman Water retail operations under a license issued in July 1990 by the Cayman Islands government (the “1990 license”) that granted Cayman Water the exclusive right to provide potable water to customers within its licensed service area. Although the 1990 license has not been expressly extended after January 2018, the Company continues to supply water under the terms of the 1990 license, as further discussed in the following paragraph. Pursuant to the 1990 license, Cayman Water has the exclusive right to produce potable water and distribute it by pipeline to its licensed service area, which consists of two of the three most populated areas of Grand Cayman Island: Seven Mile Beach and West Bay. In 2024, 2023, and 2022, the Company generated approximately 24%, 17% and 27%, respectively, of its consolidated revenue and 38%, 26% and 44%, respectively, of its consolidated gross profit from the retail water operations conducted under the 1990 license.
The 1990 license was originally scheduled to expire in July 2010 but was extended several times by the Cayman Islands government in order to provide the parties with additional time to negotiate the terms of a new license agreement. The most recent express extension of the 1990 license expired on January 31, 2018. From that date until February 18, 2025, the Company continued to operate under the terms of the 1990 license, providing water services to the level and quality specified in the 1990 license and in accordance with its understanding of its legal obligations, treating those obligations set forth in the 1990 license as operative notwithstanding the expiration of the express extension. The Company continued to pay the royalty of 7.5% of the revenue that Cayman Water collects as required under the 1990 license.
In October 2016, the Government of the Cayman Islands passed legislation which created a new utilities regulation and competition office (“OfReg”). OfReg is an independent and accountable regulatory body with a view of protecting the
rights of consumers, encouraging affordable utility services and promoting competition. OfReg, which began operations in January 2017, has the ability to supervise, monitor and regulate multiple utility undertakings and markets. Supplemental legislation was passed by the Government of the Cayman Islands in April 2017, which transferred responsibility for the economic regulation of the water utility sector and the negotiations with the Company for a new retail license from the WAC to OfReg in May 2017. The Company began license negotiations with OfReg in July 2017 and such negotiations are ongoing. The Company has been informed during its retail license negotiations, both by OfReg and its predecessor in these negotiations, that they seek to restructure the terms of its license in a manner that could significantly reduce the operating income and cash flows the Company has historically generated from its retail license.
Under the new regulatory legislation passed in October 2016, Cayman Water must first be granted a concession by the government before obtaining a new (or renewing the old) retail operating license. On February 18, 2025, Cayman Water received a new concession from the government that authorizes and maintains the terms of the 1990 license until a new license is negotiated and enacted.
The Company is presently unable to determine what impact the resolution of its retail license negotiations will have on its consolidated financial condition or results of operations but such resolution could result in a material reduction (or the loss) of the operating income and cash flows the Company has historically generated from Cayman Water’s retail operations and could require the Company to record impairment losses to reduce the carrying values of its retail segment assets. Such impairment losses could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s consolidated financial condition and results of operations.
CW-Bahamas
CW-Bahamas’ accounts receivable balances (which include accrued interest) due from the WSC amounted to $28.4 million and $26.9 million as of December 31, 2024 and 2023. Approximately 81% and 80% of the accounts receivable balances were delinquent as of those dates, respectively.
From time to time (including presently), CW-Bahamas has experienced delays in collecting its accounts receivable from the WSC. When these delays occur, the Company holds discussions and meetings with representatives of the WSC and The Bahamas government, and as a result, payment schedules are developed for WSC’s delinquent accounts receivable. All previous delinquent accounts receivable from the WSC, including accrued interest thereon, were eventually paid in full. Based upon this payment history, CW-Bahamas has not provided a material allowance for credit losses for its accounts receivable from the WSC as of December 31, 2024.
In a report dated October 6, 2022, Moody’s Investor Services (“Moody’s”) downgraded The Bahamas’ long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings to B1 from Ba3. Moody’s also lowered The Bahamas’ local currency ceiling to Baa3 from Baa2 and its foreign currency ceiling to Ba1 from Baa3. Moody’s has maintained these ratings through the date of its most current report issued in October 2024.
If CW-Bahamas is unable to collect a sufficient portion of its delinquent accounts receivable, one or more of the following events may occur: (i) CW-Bahamas may not have sufficient liquidity to meet its obligations; (ii) the Company may be required to cease the recognition of revenue on CW-Bahamas’ water supply agreements with the WSC; and (iii) the Company may be required to provide an additional allowance for credit losses for CW-Bahamas’ accounts receivable. Any of these events could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
CW-Bahamas Performance Guarantees
The contracts to supply water to the WSC from the Blue Hills and Windsor plants require CW-Bahamas to guarantee delivery of a minimum quantity of water per week. If the WSC requires the water and CW-Bahamas does not meet this minimum, CW-Bahamas is required to pay the WSC for the difference between the minimum and actual gallons delivered at a per gallon rate equal to the price per gallon that the WSC is currently paying CW-Bahamas under the contract. The Blue Hills contract expires in 2032 and requires CW-Bahamas to deliver 63.0 million gallons of water each week. The Windsor contract expires in 2033 and requires CW-Bahamas to deliver 16.8 million gallons of water each week. CW-
Bahamas has been in compliance with the performance guarantees under these contracts for all periods since the inception of the contracts.
19. Related party transactions
The Company, through PERC, purchases engineering and technology support services from various companies formerly affiliated with PERC, as a former minority shareholder in these companies was also a minority shareholder of PERC. On January 4, 2023, as a result of CW-Holdings' exercise of a call option in October 2022, CW-Holdings purchased the remaining 39% ownership interest in PERC. After giving effect to this purchase, CW-Holdings owns 100% of the outstanding capital stock of PERC and, consequently, transactions with the formerly affiliated companies no longer constitute related party transactions. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company made total purchases of services from these companies of approximately $2,695,000. These total purchases are included in the Company’s cost of revenue in the accompanying consolidated statements of income.
PERC entered into a sublease agreement with one of these formerly affiliated companies that commenced on March 14, 2021 and ended August 31, 2021. This lease was subsequently extended on an annual basis until August 31, 2025. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company recognized approximately $97,000 of expense related to this lease. This lease expense is included in the Company's general and administrative expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of income.
20. Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information
Year Ended December 31,
Interest paid in cash
$
8,479
$
21,417
$
14,797
Income taxes paid in cash
$
3,147,300
$
4,920,912
$
211,000
Issuance of 5,904, 13,309 and 9,295, respectively, shares of redeemable preferred stock for services rendered
$
148,485
$
323,275
$
133,197
Issuance of 68,832, 68,864 and 72,597, respectively, shares of common stock for services rendered
$
1,064,119
$
1,015,177
$
877,298
Conversion (on a one-to-one basis) of 5,968, 8,848 and 6,585, respectively, shares of redeemable preferred stock to common stock
$
3,581
$
5,309
$
3,951
Dividends declared but not paid
$
1,747,938
$
1,502,506
$
1,305,367
Issuance of 0, 368,383 and 0, respectively, shares of common stock for the purchase of non-controlling interest in PERC
$
-
$
5,359,973
$
-
Transfers from inventory to property, plant and equipment and construction in progress
$
538,777
$
317,853
$
346,024
Transfers from construction in progress to property, plant and equipment
$
1,395,485
$
7,093,158
$
297,723
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities
$
1,604,702
$
745,078
$
-
Purchase of equipment through issuance of long-term debt
$
-
$
-
$
188,645
Transfers from prepaid expenses to property, plant and equipment
$
67,136
$
271,922
$
-
Transfers from prepaid expenses to inventory
$
-
$
238,032
$
-
21. Impact of recent accounting standards
Adoption of new accounting standards:
In November 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures. This ASU updates reportable segment disclosure requirements by requiring disclosures of significant reportable segment expenses that are regularly provided to the Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”) and included within each reported measure of a segment’s profit or loss. This ASU also requires disclosure of the title and position of the individual identified as the CODM and an
explanation of how the CODM uses the reported measures of a segment’s profit or loss in assessing segment performance and deciding how to allocate resources. The adoption of ASU 2023-07 did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
Effect of newly issued but not yet effective accounting standards:
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses. The ASU requires public companies to disclose, in the notes to financial statements, specific information about certain costs and expenses at each interim and annual reporting period. The ASU is effective on a prospective basis for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027.
In January 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-01, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Clarifying the Effective Date. The ASU amends the effective date of ASU 2024-03 to clarify that all business entities are required to adopt the guidance in annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. The Company is currently evaluation the impact of this guidance.
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. The ASU requires disaggregated information about a reporting entity’s effective tax rate reconciliation as well as additional information on income taxes paid. The ASU is effective on a prospective basis for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted. The adoption of ASU 2023-09 is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
22. Subsequent events
The Company evaluated subsequent events through the time of the filing of its Annual Report on Form 10-K. Other than as disclosed in these consolidated financial statements, the Company is not aware of any significant events that occurred subsequent to the balance sheet date but prior to the filing of this report that would have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS
ITEM 9.
CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
None.

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ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
ITEM 9A.
CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Disclosure controls and procedures are the Company’s controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Our management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can only provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the possible controls and procedures.
Our management has evaluated, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based upon that evaluation, our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, has concluded that, as of the end of the period
covered by this report, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were not effective at the reasonable assurance level.
Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Company management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision of, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer and effected by the Company’s Board of Directors, management and other personnel to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America and includes those policies and procedures that:
● pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company;
● provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, and that receipts and expenditures of the Company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and Directors of the Company; and
● provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the Company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risks that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Management has assessed the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024. In making this assessment, management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013). A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the Company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. Based on that assessment and due to the material weakness described in the following paragraphs, our management has concluded that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was not effective as of December 31, 2024.
Material Weaknesses in Internal Control and Plan for Remediation
It was determined that management’s information technology general control (“ITGC”) specific to change management was not sufficiently designed to monitor direct changes to databases within two accounting systems during the period January 1, 2024 through October 31, 2024. Management completed the actions described in paragraphs that follow to remediate this ITGC deficiency. Effective November 1, 2024, the deficiency was remediated.
However, certain business process controls (automated and manual) from January 1, 2024 through October 31, 2024 could have been adversely affected due to insufficient design of this ITGC, and therefore determined to be ineffective during this time period. Furthermore, following the remediation date of November 1, 2024, management did not have a sufficient number of control occurrences with which to demonstrate operating effectiveness for certain annual and quarterly manual controls. Due to the insufficient control occurrences available for testing operating effectiveness, management was unable to conclude on the effectiveness of these controls and therefore determined that these controls cannot be considered effective as of December 31, 2024. Due to the number of manual controls that management was not able to consider effective as of December 31, 2024, management concluded that such deficiencies represent a material weakness in the
Company’s internal control over financial reporting and our internal control over financial reporting was not effective as of December 31, 2024.
The referenced deficiency did not result in any identified misstatements to the consolidated financial statements, and there were no changes to previously released financial results. The deficiency described above created a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement to the consolidated financial statements may not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
Our independent registered public accounting firm, Marcum LLP, who audited the consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, issued an adverse opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Marcum LLP’s report appears on page 43 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Based upon the results of management’s evaluation of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, the Company took the following actions, which were completed as of November 1, 2024, to remediate the ITGC material weakness discussed previously:
● Management purchased and implemented additional database monitoring and alerting software to monitor activities on key financial systems.
● Management purchased and implemented a Privileged Access Management application to manage, monitor, and limit direct data access to financial systems.
● Management increased the scope and frequency of reviews of changes to key financial system data.
● Management implemented additional management review procedures.
The material weakness arising from the lack of control occurrences for the annual and quarterly manual controls will not be considered fully remediated until the controls have operated for a sufficient period of time to allow management to conclude, through testing, that these controls are operating effectively. We expect to complete the remediation process for this material weakness in 2025.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Except for the on-going remediation relating to the material weakness discussed previously, there were no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation of such internal control that occurred during the Company’s last fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

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ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 9B.
OTHER INFORMATION
None.

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ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
ITEM 10.
DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Information required by this item with respect to our Directors and the nomination process is contained in the proxy statement for our 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be filed with the SEC (the “Proxy Statement”) under the heading “Proposal 1 - Election of Directors” and is incorporated by reference in this Annual Report.
Information required by this item with respect to our Executive Officers is set forth in the Proxy Statement under the heading “Executive Officers” and is incorporated by reference in this Annual Report.
Information required by this item with respect to our audit committee and our audit committee financial expert is contained in the Proxy Statement under the heading “Proposal 1 - Election of Directors - Committees of the Board of Directors - Audit Committee” and is incorporated by reference in this Annual Report.
To our knowledge, based solely on the review of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act and written representations from the certain reporting persons, we believe that during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, other than Wilmer F. Pergande, who filed a Form 4 one day late for the sale of 3,500 shares, our officers, directors and significant shareholders have timely filed the appropriate form under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act.
Information required by this item with respect to insider trading policies and procedures is contained in the Proxy Statement under the heading “Proposal 1 - Election of Directors - Governance of the Company - Insider Trading and Hedging Policy” and is incorporated by reference in this Annual Report.
The Board of Directors has adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the “Code”) that applies to all of the Company’s Directors, Officers (including the Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) and employees. Information related to the Code is contained in the Proxy Statement under the heading “Proposal 1 - Election of Directors - Governance of the Company” and is incorporated by reference in this Annual Report.
We intend to disclose future amendments to certain provisions of the Code, or waivers of such provisions granted to Executive Officers and Directors, on our website within four business days following the date of such amendment or waiver.

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ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
ITEM 11.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Information required by this item with respect to executive compensation and director compensation is contained in the Proxy Statement under the headings “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” and “Additional Information Regarding Executive Compensation”, and is incorporated by reference in this Annual Report.
Information required by this item with respect to policies and practices on the timing of option grants in relation to the release of material non-public information and tabular disclosure, if any, regarding any options granted to named executive officers in the period beginning four business days before and ending one business day after the disclosure of material non-public information is contained in the Proxy Statement under the headings “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” and “Additional Information Regarding Executive Compensation”, and is incorporated by reference in this Annual Report.
Information required by this item with respect to compensation committee interlocks and insider participation is contained in the Proxy Statement under the heading “Additional Information Regarding Executive Compensation - Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation in Compensation Decisions” and is incorporated by reference in this Annual Report. The compensation committee report required by this item is contained in the Proxy Statement under the heading “Compensation Discussion and Analysis - Compensation Committee Report” and is incorporated by reference in this Annual Report.
Information required by this item with respect to compensation policies and practices as they relate to the Company’s risk management is contained in the Proxy Statement under the heading “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” and is incorporated by reference in this Annual Report.

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ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
ITEM 12.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
Information required by this item with respect to security ownership of certain beneficial owners and management is contained in the Proxy Statement under the heading “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Shareholders Matters” and is incorporated by reference in this Annual Report.

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ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
ITEM 13.
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
Information required by this item with respect to such contractual relationships and director independence is contained in the Proxy Statement under the headings “Additional Information Regarding Executive Compensation - Transactions With Related Persons” and is incorporated by reference in this Annual Report.

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ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
ITEM 14.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
Information with respect to principal accounting fees and services are contained in the Proxy Statement under the heading “Proposal 3 Ratification of the Selection of Independent Accountants - Principal Accounting Fees and Services” and is incorporated by reference in this Annual Report.
PART IV

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ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
ITEM 15.
EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
1. Financial Statements
The Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. Financial statements found in ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA are incorporated herein by reference.
2. Financial Statement Schedules
None.
3. Exhibits
The Exhibits listed in the Exhibit Index immediately preceding the Signatures are filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
CONSOLIDATED WATER CO. LTD.
INDEX TO EXHIBITS FILED WITH 10-K
Number
Exhibit Description
3.1
Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association of Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. dated May 23, 2022 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 filed as part of our Form 8-K filed May 27, 2022, Commission File No. 0-25248)
3.2
Amended and Restated Articles of Association of Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. dated May 23, 2022 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 filed as part of our Form 8-K filed May 27, 2022, Commission File No. 0-25248)
4.1**
Description of Securities
10.1.1
License Agreement dated July 11, 1990 between Cayman Water Company Limited and the Government of the Cayman Islands (incorporated herein by reference to the exhibit filed as a part of our Form 20-F dated December 7, 1994, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.1.2
First Amendment to License Agreement dated September 18, 1990 between Cayman Water Company Limited and the Government of the Cayman Islands. (incorporated herein by reference to the exhibit filed as a part of our Form 20-F dated December 7, 1994, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.1.3
Second Amendment to License Agreement dated February 14, 1991 between Cayman Water Company Limited and the Government of the Cayman Islands. (incorporated herein by reference to the exhibit filed as a part of our Form 20-F dated December 7, 1994, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.1.4
Third Amendment to a License to Produce Potable Water dated August 15, 2001 between Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. by the Government of the Cayman Islands (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.4 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.1.5
Fourth Amendment to a License to Produce Potable Water dated February 1, 2003 between Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. by the Government of the Cayman Islands (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.5 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.1.6
Amendment to License Agreement dated July 20, 2010 between the Government of the Cayman Islands and Cayman Water Company Limited (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10 filed as a part of our Form 8-K filed July 23, 2010, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.1.7
Amendment to a License to Produce Potable Water dated July 11, 2012 between Cayman Water Company Limited and the Government of the Cayman Islands (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 filed as a part of our Form 10-Q for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.1.8
Amendment to License Agreement dated December 31, 2012 between the Government of the Cayman Islands and Cayman Water Company Limited (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 filed as a part of our Form 8-K filed March 4, 2013, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.1.9
Amendment to License Agreement dated April 24, 2013 between the Government of the Cayman Islands and Cayman Water Company Limited (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1.9 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.1.10
Amendment to License Agreement dated November 6, 2013 between the Government of the Cayman Islands and Cayman Water Company Limited (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1.10 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, Commission File No. 0-25248)
Number
Exhibit Description
10.1.11
Amendment to License Agreement dated June 30, 2014 between the Government of the Cayman Islands and Cayman Water Company Limited (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to our Form 8-K filed July 14,2014, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.1.12
Amendment to License Agreement dated January 20, 2015 between the Government of the Cayman Islands and Cayman Water Company Limited (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1.12 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.1.13
Amendment to License Agreement dated August 5, 2015 between the Government of the Cayman Islands and Cayman Water Company Limited (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1.13 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.1.14
Amendment to License Agreement dated April 11, 2016 between the Government of the Cayman Islands and Cayman Water Company Limited (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 filled as part of our Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2016, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.1.15
Grant of Concession dated February 18, 2025 Minister of Planning, Agriculture, Housing, Infrastructure, Transport & Development of the Cayman Islands in favor of Cayman Water Company Limited (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to our Form 8-K filed February 25, 2025, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.2
Water Supply Agreement dated December 18, 2000 between Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. and South Bimini International Ltd. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.12 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2000, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.3.1*
Employment contract dated December 5, 2003 between Frederick McTaggart and Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.18 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.3.2*
Amendment of Engagement Agreement dated September 14, 2007 between Frederick W. McTaggart and Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to our Form 8-K filed September 19, 2007, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.3.3*
Third Amendment of Engagement Agreement dated September 9, 2009 between Frederick W. McTaggart and Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to our Form 8-K filed September 10, 2009, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.4*
Engagement Agreement dated January 15, 2008 between David Sasnett and Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 filed as part of our Form 8-K filed January 22, 2008, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.5.1*
Employment contract dated January 14, 2008 between Ramjeet Jerrybandan and Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.11 filed as part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.5.2*
First Amendment to Employment Contract dated March 29, 2017 between Ramjeet Jerrybandan and Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.2 filed as part of our Form 8-K filed April 4, 2017, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.5.3*
Second Amendment of Engagement Agreement dated September 9, 2022 between Ramjeet Jerrybandan and Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 filed as part of our Form 8-K filed September 13, 2022, Commission File No. 0-25248)
Number
Exhibit Description
10.6
Specimen Service Agreement between Cayman Water Company Limited and consumers (incorporated herein by reference to the exhibit filed as part of our Registration Statement on Form dated March 26, 1996)
10.7*
Summary Share Grant Plan for Directors (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.24 filed as part of our Registration Statement on Form dated May 17, 2000, Commission File No. 333-35356)
10.8*
Employee Share Option Plan (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.26 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.9*
2008 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 filled as part of our Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2008, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.10*
Employee Share Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 filled as part of our Registration Statement on Form S-8 dated January 12, 2024, Commission File No. 333-276483)
10.11
Water Supply Agreement dated March 5, 2018 between Cayman Water Company Limited and Cayman Shores Development Ltd. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.10 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.12
Lease dated December 10, 2001 between Cayman Hotel and Golf Inc. and Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.52 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.13.1†
Form of Agreement for Desalinated Water Supply dated May 2005 among Water and Sewerage Corporation, Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. and Consolidated Water (Bahamas) Limited (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 filed as a part of our Form 8-K filed February 4, 2011, File No. 0-25248)
10.13.2†
Letter of Acceptance dated January 25, 2011 (effective January 31, 2011) between Water and Sewerage Corporation and Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.2 filed as a part of our Form 8-K filed February 4, 2011, File No. 0-25248)
10.13.3†
Proposal letter dated December 8, 2010 addressed to the Water and Sewerage Corporation (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.3 filed as a part of our Form 8-K filed February 4, 2011, File No. 0-25248)
10.14.1
N.S.C. Agua S.A. de C.V. agreement for the purchase of 12 hectares of land dated May 16, 2013 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.32.1 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.14.2
Appendix to N.S.C. Agua S.A. de C.V. agreement for the purchase of 12 hectares of land dated May 16, 2013 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.32.2 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.14.3
Exhibit Index to N.S.C. Agua S.A. de C.V. agreement for the purchase of 12 hectares of land dated May 16, 2013 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.32.3 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.14.4
Exhibits to N.S.C. Agua S.A. de C.V. agreement for the purchase of 12 hectares of land dated May 16, 2013 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.32.4 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.14.5**
Real Estate Purchase and Sale Agreement dated June 10, 2024 between N.S.C. Agua S.A. de C.V. and Banco National de Obras y Servicios Publicos
Number
Exhibit Description
10.15
Public-Private Partnership Contract dated August 22, 2016 among Aguas de Rosarito S.A.P.I. de C.V., the State Water Commission of Baja California, the Government of Baja California represented by the Secretary of Planning and Finance, and the Public Utilities Commission of Tijuana. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to be filed as a part of our Amendment No. 1 to Form 8-K filed August 26, 2016, File No. 0-25248)
10.16
Letter dated June 29, 2020 from the Director General of the Comisión Estatal del Agua de Baja California to Aguas de Rosarito, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 filed as a part of our Form 8-K filed July 6, 2020, File No. 0-25248)
10.17
Procurement of and Operating Agreement for a Sea Water Desalination Plant at Red Gate Water Works, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, using the Reverse Osmosis Process (2021), effective as of May 10, 2022, by and between The Water Authority of the Cayman Islands and Ocean Conversion (Cayman) Limited (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 filed as a part of our Form 10-Q filed November 14, 2022, File No. 0-25248)
10.18
Stock Purchase Agreement dated January 4, 2023 among Consolidated Water U.S. Holdings, Inc. and the Sellers. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 filed as part of our Form 8-K filed January 9, 2023, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.19
Agreement dated May 11, 2022 between PERC Water Corporation and Liberty (Litchfield Park Water & Sewer) Corp. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 filed as part of our Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2023, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.20
Service Agreement for the Kalaeloa Seawater Desalination Facility Design, Build, Operate And Maintain Project Oahu, Hawaii dated June 2, 2023 between Kalaeloa Desalco LLC and The Board of Water Supply of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 filed as part of our Form 8-K filed June 6, 2023, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.21
Guaranty Agreement dated June 2, 2023 from Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. to The Board of Water Supply of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 filed as part of our Form 8-K filed June 6, 2023, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.22
Stock Purchase Agreement dated November 2, 2023, but effective October 1, 2023 among PERC Water Corporation and Linda Ramey and Robert W. Ramey (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 filed as part of our Form 8-K filed November 7, 2023, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.23
Settlement Agreement dated May 28, 2024 among Consolidated Water Coöperatief, U.A.; N.S.C. Agua, S.A. de C.V.; Aguas de Rosarito S.A.P.I. de C.V.; the Government of Baja California; and Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos, S.N.C., as trustee under the trust agreement for Fondo Nacional de Infraestructura (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 filed as part of our Form 8-K filed June 4, 2024, Commission File No. 0-25248)
10.24.1***
Employment contract dated August 23, 2010 between Brent Brodie and Consolidated Water Co. Ltd.
10.24.2***
First Amendment to Employment Contract dated March 4, 2022 between Brent Brodie and Consolidated Water Co. Ltd.
10.25***
Employment contract dated June 28, 2012 between Douglas R. Vizzini and Consolidated Water Co. Ltd.
Number
Exhibit Description
Insider Trading and Disclosure of Non-Public Information Policy (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 19 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, Commission File No. 0-25248)
21.1**
Subsidiaries of the Registrant 
23.1**
Consent of Marcum LLP - Consolidated Water Co. Ltd.
31.1**
Certification by the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
31.2**
Certification by the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.1**
Certification by the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.2**
Certification by the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Incentive Compensation Recoupment Policy (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 97 filed as a part of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, Commission File No. 0-25248)
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* Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan.
** Filed herewith.
*** Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan, which is filed herewith.
† Portions of these Exhibits have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment.