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ORGANIZATION | Pure Cycle Corporation (the "Company") was incorporated in Delaware in 1976 and reincorporated in Colorado in 2008. The Company owns assets in the Denver, Colorado metropolitan area, and prior to a sale on August 18, 2015, it owned assets in Southeast Colorado. The Company is currently using its water assets located in the Denver metropolitan area to provide wholesale water and wastewater services to customers located in the Denver metropolitan area. The Company leased its farm land and related water rights in Southeast Colorado to area farmers. The Company provides a full line of wholesale water and wastewater services which includes designing and constructing water and wastewater systems as well as operating and maintaining such systems. The Company's business focus is to provide wholesale water and wastewater services, predominately to local governmental entities, which provide services to their end-use customers throughout the Denver metropolitan area as well as along the Colorado Front Range. The Company believes it has sufficient working capital and financing sources to fund its operations for at least the next fiscal year. As of August 31, 2015, the Company had $37.1 million of cash and cash equivalents and $38.1 million of working capital.

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