SINGAPORE, 20 January 2009- SGX-Main-board listed CNA Group Ltd. (“CNA” or “the

Group”), an award-winning enabler of intelligent buildings and facilities, announced today

that the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (“EPC”) order book of its 49.9%-

owned associate, Standard Water Limited (“SWL”) has jumped to RMB230 million as at 31

December 2008 on recently secured new wastewater treatment projects in China.

This order book of RMB230 million is to be completed progressively in 2009 and in 2010.

SWL, through its joint venture investment company, Crystal Water Co. HK Ltd (“Crystal

Water”) with Standard Chartered IL & FS Asia Infrastructure Growth Fund Company Pte

Ltd (“SCIA”) secured two “Build, Operate And Transfer” (“BOT”) projects and one “Transfer,

Operate, Transfer” project in Shandong and Hebei provinces respectively.

These latest projects together with fourteen other ongoing BOT projects of Crystal Water in

Shandong, Shaanxi, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces are expected to provide a total

treatment capacity exceeding 400,000 tons per day. Presently, five BOT projects including

four in Shandong and one in Zhejiang provinces have been fully completed by SWL and

are on trial running. They are scheduled to put into commercial operation in the first quarter

of 2009.

Upon commercial operation, it is expected that SWL will start to earn revenue from the

provision of operations and maintenance (“O&M”) services to Crystal Water from FY2009