Veolia Water selected by SEDIF to manage its water service for 12 years
Paris, June 24th 2010.
Syndicat des Eaux d’lle-de-France (SEDIF) announced that it has awarded Veolia Water, subsidiary of Veolia Environnement, a 12 year contract to manage its public water production and distribution service.
Under the new scope of activities fixed by SEDIF, the contract will represent cumulative revenue of approximately 3 billion Euros; being taken into effect January 1st, 2011.
SEDIF is the largest water authority in France and one of the largest in the world in terms of the volume of water distributed and the number of people served. In 2009, some 250 million cubic metres of water were supplied to more than 4.3 million people in 144 municipalities in the Greater Paris area.
The services provided to SEDIF will also be highly complex due to the size (8,800 kilometres of pipes) as well as the quality of the available water resource from rivers, which requires a very sophisticated treatment.
As the current SEDIF operator, Veolia Water has developed innovative solutions for the area that have already made global benchmarks of the authority’s systems and services; these include nanofiltration at the Mery-sur-Oise water production plant, as well as “communicating vehicles” used to manage call outs and so on.
Chief Executive Officer of Veolia Environnement, Antoine Frérot said, “Veolia welcomes this decision with a great deal of satisfaction.” He went on to further comment, “…This is a thoroughly overhauled public service that is turned toward the future. The company’s service offer to the SEDIF authority includes several world firsts. This capacity to innovate and think outside of the box has enabled Veolia to offer optimal quality for the best possible price, thus underpinning its position as the global benchmark for this important public service.”
For more information please contact Renee Fry- National Communications Manager (02) 8571 0000
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