Yes and No.

Are they related?-short answer yes.

Is there a relationship between the two?-short answer no

Are they related at all?-long answer see below.

Vivendi Universal set up Vivendi Environnment (yes with two n’s) as a consolidated subsidiary in 1999. Vivendi Env. was a combination of Vivendi Water, Onyx (waste), Dalkia (energy), and Connex (transportation). The company was spun off as an IPO, July 2000 in France, and October 2001 in the US. Vivendi still held 70% of the company’s stock. Why? Because Vivendi was struggling due to its losses on the Universal side. By late 2002, Vivendi’s intrest dipped to 20%, In 2003 Vivendi shareholders agreed to re-name the company Veolia Environnment. Why? To get away from the negative perception of the losses that Vivendi had sustained. Vivendi still holds approx. 5% of the common stock. In Fall of 2005 the branding conversion was made on all assests-Veolia Water, Veolia Environmental Services, Veolia Energy, and Veolia Transportation. With the exception of Onyx North America. That transition occured in June 2006. It is now part of the of Veolia Env. brand.

Because the government HAS TO run the military. There is no private market for it on a national scale. Furtheremore, the nature of the military is that it isnt providing a personalized service to an individual, which makes it a lot different. But still there is a ridiculous amount of waste and mismanagment within the defence bureaucracy as well, but we dont have any choice. Healthcare… there is a choice. The government, as well as the states should be deregulating a lot of things to creat a national market. Then scrap the employee based systema that is set up by tax advantages and give those credits to individuals instead. Now you have a national market with consumer pricing power. Costs come down considerably and now virtually all have private insurance. Then government only provides healthcare to plug the gaps, where a few slip through. There is no need for universally run government controlled healthcare, which will not only end up costing society more then healthcare does today, but innovation will be stifled, and quality will deteriorate. And as costs keep goign up, it will be the government rationing who gets what. Just look at the mess Canada and Britain are currently facing.