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Earnings per share (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Earnings Per Share [Abstract]

Schedule of Earnings Per Share, Basic and Diluted [Table Text Block]

The following summarizes information related to the computation of basic and diluted EPS for the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014.

		Three Months Ended March 31,
		2015			2014
Net income attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. Common stockholders		$	1,921,261		$	654,909
Less: preferred stock dividends			(2,763)			(2,806)
Net income available to common shares in the determination of basic earnings per common share		$	1,918,498		$	652,103
Weighted average number of common shares in the determination of basic earnings per common share attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. common stockholders			14,718,757			14,686,744
Plus:
Weighted average number of preferred shares outstanding during the period			36,840			37,408
Potential dilutive effect of unexercised options			8,572			42,833
Weighted average number of shares used for determining diluted earnings per common share attributable to Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. common stockholders			14,764,169			14,766,985

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Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 260

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6371337&loc=d3e3550-109257

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