Business Overview 2009 (pdf - 6.8MB) - Veolia Water

Our fundamentals / 2009 highlights
INDIA
The city of Nagpur awarded Veolia Water
its fourth contract in two years.
This rapidly expanding Indian city wants
to increase its water supply facilities.
After the Pench 1 and Kanhan plants,
it asked Veolia Water to design, construct
and operate for 10 years a new plant
with a daily capacity of 115,000 cubic
meters. The fourth and current project,
which entails continuous water supply
to 160,000 people in a pilot area, recently
won the National Urban Water Award
presented by the President of the Republic
of India.
CHINA
In 2003, Veolia Water signed a 50-year
contract in Shenzhen for water treatment,
supply networks and customer relations.
The scope of this contract has been extended
beyond the economic zone and now also
includes Bao’an and Longgang. In all,
Veolia Water now serves 7.61 million people
in the area with a daily production capacity
of 5,680,000 cubic meters.
FRANCE
In a first for drinking water, the process
deployed by Veolia Water at its
Neuilly-sur-Marne/Noisy-le-Grand
plant for the safe recycling of settling
tank sludge in agricultural land
application obtained the Qualicert
certification. This service certification
guarantees farmers a quality process
with full traceability.
In Nice,
Veolia Water has installed hydroelectric
microturbines on its water supply network.
This system makes good use of the
mountainous terrain to generate enough
hydro power to meet the electricity needs
of 400 households. In the long term it should
generate the equivalent of the Nice light rail
system’s electricity consumption.
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