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carbon footprint. Several of our subsidiaries invested in this area in 2009. VWS, for example, has invested in a major “Carbon Initiative” project (see box). To calculate precisely the carbon footprint of the operational activities under the Greater Lyons contract (France), Veolia Water created a tool called EC’Eau. It has shown that the production and distribution of drinking water generates annual emissions of 9 kilograms of CO 2 equivalent per inhabitant (i.e., 1/1000th of the annual emissions generated by each person in France). The diagnosis also highlighted the areas where reductions can be made. Veolia Water plans to deploy this tool in all its facilities in France. In another example, pre-empting new French legislation that will require by 2011 all companies with more than 500 employees to report their annual carbon balance, Sade has established a method and built a calculation tool based on the “Carbone 6” proprietary software. It can be used to express the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) avoided by implementing alternative techniques that the company has designed or developed to replace conventional processes. Sade also continued to innovate in reducing the environmental impact of its own activities: after the trenchless micro-tunneling technique used, for example, for the Budapest VWS and carbon efficiency When VWS started its “Carbon Footprint”* project in 2009, it began by auditing the available solutions in 14 of its entities, and then identified the technological levers that would enable them to reduce their footprint. The idea then emerged that VWS could apply this process at its clients’ facilities and help them work out their “total carbon cost.” Thanks to its expertise in the relevant technology, VWS has already selected the most suitable processes to solve the issues confronting its industrial and public-authority clients. It can now identify for them the solutions which, by emitting lower levels of GHGs in their operation cycle, ultimately mean lower operating costs or fewer new costs associated with CO 2 emissions. VWS has already had the opportunity to leverage this expertise in the Rosny-Mantes Urban District project (CAMY Authority, in the Parisian region). In a concern for sustainability, the local authorities wanted to upgrade their wastewater treatment plant at Rosny-sur-Seine to mitigate its environmental impact. In cooperation with Veolia Water who operates the plant, VWS found the right solution to respond to CAMY’s expectations and won the contract. Today, VWS is in a position to submit bids mainstreaming the appropriate solutions meeting the carbon footprint concerns of any client. * The carbon footprint is the sum of all direct and indirect GHG emissions attributable to an individual, organization, activity or product. 43
Milwaukee: From wastewater to research, an innovative partnership When it signed the country’s largest wastewater service contract (population of 1.1 million) at the very end of 2008 with the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Veolia Water included the finance for a research program for the neighboring Great Lakes region scheduled to last around 10 years. Working with two US universities, the company has already selected three initial projects to study the growing presence of pharmaceutical pollutants in the aquifer, an issue of increasing concern to the local population. The research projects will aim to: – identify the compounds present in the storage tank and their potential removal in the wastewater treatment process; – improve the wastewater treatment processes to reduce the percentage of solid residue and increase the availability of biogas; and – understand better how chemical substances, such as phosphorus (the source of bad odors), are transferred from a tank to a river. contract, the company has developed the Recyclor process to recycle on-site the road mix extracted from its work sites into an immediately reusable backfill material. Veolia Water is exploring other avenues for renewable energy production at its sites. We have, for example, installed hydraulic water turbines in Nice (France), Brussels (Belgium) and in Australia. In Germany, our subsidiary OEWA has patented a drinking water heat pump. Designed for local public authorities and industry, this innovation converts the calories in drinking water into a source of heat or cooling. Veolia Water is also able to provide public authorities with the possibility of recovering heat from their wastewater. In France, the cities of Deauville and Nantes (La Petite Californie plant) have adopted this solution. Veolia Water is also exploring the possibilities offered by solar and wind power. Sade is capitalizing on its civil engineering works expertise to develop its business in the construction of wind farm infrastructure. It has already won two tenders from EDF Energies Nouvelles and a new contract with Enercon. Innovate but adapt to local contexts Wherever Veolia Water is present, it carries out its core business providing optimum solutions to its clients’ water 44 Veolia Water 2009
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