Values

For Veolia Water, meeting the challenge of managing outsourced water services entails giving top priority to:
 

• Safeguarding public health and ensuring a clean, high quality water supply;

• Protecting the natural environment;

• Conserving water resources;

• Increasing the number of people connected to a water and wastewater system;

• Improving the technical performances of facilities;

• Optimizing investments and operating costs;

• Involving employees by developing skills and increasing the number of new initiatives.

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Our Commitments to Sustainable Development

Veolia Water is committed to the sustainable development of water management.

This commitment also reflects the desire of our customers that we operate our services for them in a reliable, responsible and concerted manner.

Our 12 commitments to Sustainable Development:

1. Protect the environment, contribute to conserving natural resources and biodiversity, and combat climate change.

2. Promote-through innovation, research and development- environmental, economic and social solutions that will meet the needs of future generations.

3. Raise awareness of environmental challenges and the ensuing need for behavioral changes among all concerned with our activities.

4. Adapt our service offers, through dialog, the quality of the advice we provide and our expertise, to meet the needs and expectations of clients.

5. Ensure our employees' health and safety and help improve public health.

6. Provide working conditions in which fundamental human rights and international labor standards are complied with.

7. Promote diversity and combat discrimination to guarantee equal opportunities.

8. Encourage skills development and upward mobility for our employees throughout their career.

9. Gradually set our own environmental and social standards to be applied to all our operations around the world.

10. Base our corporate governance on transparent communication, anticipation of risks and the definition of rules for ethical conduct and compliance.

11. Contribute to local economic and social development, and to meeting international goals for access to essential services.

12. Encourage partners, subcontractors and suppliers to adhere to our values and make their own contribution to our sustainable development commitments.

Veolia Water shares the Veolia Environnement Group's values:

• Customer focus

• Cohesion

• Innovation

• Responsibility

• Performance