Every day Veolia Water's commitment to the public authorities is to ensure high quality clean water and to guarantee a high level of service, tailored to each individual situation whether it be a highly urbanized, rural, coastal or mountain area.
Adapting the solutions
Issues facing major towns and cities
Facing acute urbanization, an increasing population, ensuring access for all to all essential services, protecting the environment, improving public health, these are the challenges that are facing local authorities in major cities.
Improving services, financial and social engineering - Veolia Water provides a solution for each and every major town and city which is tailor made to deal with its requirements and obligations, its political choices, its long-term environmental and financial issues as well as issues of social responsibility.
Via its subsidiaries in solutions and technology (Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, OTV, SADE, etc.), the Group is able to provide major towns and cities with its expertise in design, construction and/or putting together "turnkey" projects for:
- the transport and treatment of drinking water and wastewater;
- removal and re-use of sludge odour control.
The issues facing coastal areas
The elected officials in coastal areas must take into account the economic situation when taking responsibility for health issues, as the basic resource of these communities is their maritime environment (tourism, fishing, ...).
Veolia Water provides public authorities with effective, reliable and affordable solutions that will deal with those issues surrounding the development of tourism:
- making the water supply more reliable;
- protecting the environment;
- improving the entire wastewater system;
- monitoring or re-establishing the quality of the beach water, etc.
By making their expertise available to them, the Group assists the elected officials in implementing fully responsible environmentally friendly water management paving the way for a future for coastal waters and water resources, and thereby ensuring that the authorities operate within the context of sustainable development.
Issues facing small and middle-sized towns
The elected officials of these local communities are also able to access the most sophisticated techniques while keeping down the cost of the necessary investments.
Rehabilitating an existing network, improving the performance of the facilities, organizing information and awareness campaigns to reduce effluent discharge, setting up an analysis monitoring program ... Veolia Water uses the expertise it has gained in working on major projects to assist small and middle-sized towns.
Moreover, the ability of the Group to call on its international skills and expertise network enables it to find appropriate solutions for every local set of circumstances.
The issues facing rural authorities
Thanks to its effective technological water treatment solutions, Veolia Water is able to assist the elected officials of rural authorities in adapting their water and wastewater systems to comply with new standards that help to improve water quality and protect the environment.
For example, Veolia Water is introducing water treatments that remove traces of agricultural fertilizer and pesticides, thereby safeguarding the drinking water system thanks to modular, robust, reliable and cost effective solutions.
Veolia Water also provides wastewater treatment solutions specifically designed for communities scattered over a wide area which make connection to the main wastewater system an impossibility.