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Item 1A. Risk Factors

2023-05-15 compared with 2022-11-14 · 35 added, 30 removed, 44 unchanged (60% of the section changed)

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These risks should be read in conjunction with the other information set forth in this Quarterly Report as well as in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 and in our other periodic reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K.

The COVID-19 pandemic will likely continue to have a material adverse impact on our financial performance and financial condition in the future, to an extent and for a period of time that cannot presently be determined.

The worldwide coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was formally recognized by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020.

In response to this pandemic, the governments of the countries in which we operate - the Cayman Islands, The Bahamas, and the United States - implemented preventative measures to slow the spread of COVID-19, measures which have had profound adverse consequences for the economies of those countries.

Tourism, a major economic driver for the Cayman Islands, temporarily ceased due to closing of the country to tourist arrivals by air and sea travel.

In November 2021, the Cayman Islands government eliminated certain travel restrictions for COVID-19 vaccinated travelers that allowed tourists to enter the Cayman Islands for the first time since March 2020.

Our retail water revenues continue to be significantly lower than pre-pandemic levels.

Tourist arrivals to The Bahamas by air and sea declined significantly due to the pandemic.

Overall economic activity in the United States has also declined.

As a result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economies of the countries in which we operate, we have experienced, and will continue to experience, decreases in our consolidated revenue, cash flows generated from operations, and overall liquidity as compared to comparable prior periods.

Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted our customers.

Such adverse impacts, should they continue for a prolonged period, could require us to reassess the expected future cash flows from our four reporting units and could require us to record impairment losses to reduce the carrying values of one or more of these reporting units due to a decline in their fair values.

Although we cannot presently quantify the future financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our company, we believe such impacts will likely continue to have an adverse impact on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.

Given the uncertainty associated with the resolution of this pandemic, we cannot presently determine how long such adverse financial impacts may last.

Our exclusive license to provide water to retail customers in the Cayman Islands has not been expressly extended and we are presently unable to predict the outcome of our on-going negotiations relating to this 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.

Although the 1990 license was not expressly extended after January 2018, we continue to supply water under the terms of the 1990 license, as further discussed in the following paragraph.

Although the 1990 license was not expressly extended after January 2018, we continue to supply water under the terms of the 1990 license, as discussed in the following paragraphs.

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.

For the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, we generated approximately 25% and 32%, respectively, of our consolidated revenue and 44% and 44%, respectively, of our consolidated gross profit from the retail water operations conducted under the 1990 license.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, the Company generated approximately 29% and 33%, respectively, of its consolidated revenue and 45% and 47%, respectively, of its consolidated gross profit from the retail water operations conducted under the 1990 license.

For the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, we generated approximately 24% and 32%, respectively, of our consolidated revenue and 40% and 46%, 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.

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We continue 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 continue to pay the royalty required under the 1990 license.

We continue to pay the royalty of 7.5% of revenue we collect 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”).

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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 us for a new retail license from the Water Authority-Cayman to OfReg in May 2017.

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.

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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 results of operations could be materially adversely affected.

CW-Bahamas’ accounts receivable balances (which include accrued interest) due from the WSC amounted to $16.6 million as of March 31, 2023.

Approximately 65% of this March 31, 2023 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, CW-Bahamas has never been required to provide an allowance for doubtful accounts for any of its accounts receivable, despite the periodic accumulation of significant delinquent balances.

As of March 31, 2023, we have not provided an allowance for doubtful accounts for CW-Bahamas’ accounts receivable from the WSC.

In its latest report dated October 6, 2022, Moody’s Investor Services (“Moody’s”) downgraded the Government of 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.

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 an allowance for doubtful accounts 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.

Most of our services segment revenue is generated under short-term contracts.

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PERC, our principal services segment subsidiary, generates most of its revenue from contracts (“O&M contracts”) to operate and maintain water treatment and reuse facilities owned by third parties.

For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, we generated revenue of approximately $3.3 million and $10.4 million, respectively, under these O&M contracts.

PERC’s O&M contracts have terms ranging from one to five years, with varying renewal options exercisable solely at the discretion of the customer.

Approximately 32% of PERC’s revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 was generated under O&M contracts that expire at various dates through December 31, 2023.

For the three months ended March 31, 2023, we generated revenue of approximately $3.6 million under these O&M contracts.

PERC’s O&M contracts have terms ranging from one to ten years, with varying renewal options exercisable solely at the discretion of the customer.

Approximately 8% of PERC’s revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2023 was generated under O&M contracts that expire at various dates through December 31, 2023.

If we are unable to obtain extensions of these expiring O&M contracts or are unable to replace the revenue lost from contracts that expire with revenue from new O&M contracts, our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows would be adversely affected.

If the future financial performance of Aerex falls short of our most recent financial projections for this subsidiary, we may be required to record impairment losses to reduce the carrying values of the goodwill and intangible assets of our manufacturing reporting unit.

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.

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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.

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.

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 anticipated sales 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 have been adversely impacted by the continuing negative economic conditions (caused in part by the COVID-19 pandemic) which have increased Aerex’s raw material costs, resulted in raw material shortages and extended delivery times for such materials, and also adversely affected the overall financial condition of Aerex’s current and prospective customer base.

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 customer base.

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 reporting unit’s goodwill by this amount for the three months ended June 30, 2021.

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.

The accounting estimates and assumptions we employ to estimate the fair values of our manufacturing and reporting units constitute “critical accounting estimates” for us because:

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We believe the inherent uncertainties associated with the accounting estimates and assumptions we use for our estimates of our reporting units’ fair values have increased due to current, less predictable economic conditions, which have resulted in increasing raw material prices, extended and unexpected delays in the procurement and delivery of our raw materials, and have also, we believe, adversely affected our customers.

Based upon our estimation prepared as of December 31, 2021, the fair value of our manufacturing reporting unit exceeded its carrying value by only 15%.

If we determine in the future that Aerex’s discounted future cash inflows will be less than our present expectations, we may be required to record additional impairment losses to reduce the remaining carrying values as of September 30, 2022 of our manufacturing reporting unit’s goodwill of $1,985,211 and its remaining unamortized intangible assets balances of $777,778 recorded as a result of the acquisition of Aerex.

Based upon our estimation prepared as of December 31, 2022, the fair value of our manufacturing reporting unit exceeded its carrying value by 63%.

of our manufacturing segment’s goodwill and its remaining unamortized intangible assets balances, which amounted to $1,985,211 and $731,111, respectively, as of December 31, 2022.

Any such impairment losses could have a material adverse impact on our consolidated results of operations.

Current economic conditions are adversely impacting the supply chain for our operations and could have a material adverse impact on our financial results.

As a result of the economic conditions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and other factors, we are experiencing issues with our supply chain for the raw materials, components, chemicals, and capital expenditures used in our operations, including rapidly increasing prices, scarcities/shortages, and longer fulfillment times and unexpected delays for our orders to suppliers.

Current economic conditions have adversely impacted the supply chain for our operations and could have a material adverse impact on our financial results .

As a result of the recent economic conditions, we have experienced issues with our supply chain for the raw materials, components, chemicals, and capital expenditures used in our operations, including rapidly increasing prices, scarcities/shortages, and longer fulfillment times and unexpected delays for our orders to suppliers.

Should these economic conditions and issues continue, our operations could be adversely affected, which could have a material adverse impact on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.

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The profit margins we initially expect to generate from a management 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 adversely impact our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.

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.

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Item 1A. Risk Factors