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Paris - In 2011, Veolia Water strengthened its position in France and renewed contracts for a total revenue of one billion euros

2012-05-11T00:00:00Z

In 2011, Veolia Water renewed 238 delegated public service contracts totaling revenue of 1.01 billion euros, that is, an equivalent level of revenue as in 2010 in France (excluding the impact of the renewal in 2010 of the contract with the Ile-de-France water authority SEDIF).

Paris - New Delhi selects Veolia Water to build and operate a new wastewater treatment plant

2012-05-02T00:00:00Z

The City of New Delhi has just contracted Veolia Water to build and operate the new Nilothi Wastewater Treatment Plant serving the city's western sector. Construction will begin in the next few weeks on this plant designed to be fully energy self-sufficient.

Paris - Veolia Water signs partnership contract with New York City to optimize its public water and wastewater services

2012-04-10T00:00:00Z

Veolia Water's new model innovates by extending the scope of the assignments awarded to the private operator as well as using different types of contracts (performance-based contracts and project management assistance).

Paris - Sustainable performance: Veolia Water innovates and makes commitments to local public authorities and its industrial clients

2012-03-22T00:00:00Z

Local public authorities and industrial companies are increasingly seeking to reduce their environmental footprints and wanting to demonstrate their commitment to a measurable and effective approach to sustainable development. Veolia Water, in a move to innovate and make concrete commitments, today announces the seven overall performance targets it has set itself for the 2012-2014 period, as well as the introduction of extra-financial evaluation of its public service management contracts.

Paris - India: first "full city" public-private partnership

2012-03-13T00:00:00Z

Veolia Water India, a Veolia Water subsidiary, has been awarded the drinking water service operation and maintenance contract by the city of Nagpur for 25 years. A multi-local player, Veolia Water India has set up a special purpose entity, Orange City Water, in a joint venture with Vishvaraj Environment Ltd., one of India's leading civil engineering and services companies.

Paris - 2011 Annual Results

2012-03-01T00:00:00Z

Deployment of the strategic plan, the relevance of which was reaffirmed by the Board of Directors on February 29, 2012. Net financial debt reduction of €488 million. Entered into exclusive negotiations with an investor regarding Veolia Transdev. 2012-2013 objectives confirmed.

Paris - Japan - Veolia Water wins three O&M contracts for water and wastewater treatment plants

2012-02-15T00:00:00Z

Veolia Water subsidiary Veolia Water Japan recently won three O&M contracts to provide water and wastewater services for 1,215,000 people in Japan.

Paris - Veolia Water is selected by SIAAP to renovate Europe's biggest wastewater treatment plant

2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

SIAAP, the interdepartmental wastewater authority for the Greater Paris area, has selected OTV, a subsidiary of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, to head the consortium that has been awarded the contract to renovate the Seine Aval biological wastewater treatment plant in Achères. After the Chicago plant, Seine Aval is the second largest wastewater treatment plant in the world.

Paris - Veolia wins nine-year public service concession contract for water service in Montauban

2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The Montauban municipality has awarded Veolia Water a nine-year public service concession (affermage) contract for water production and distribution. The contract is worth estimated cumulative revenue of 46 million euros.

Paris - Philippines - Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies to design and build Manila Water's sewage treatment plant

2011-10-13T00:00:00Z

OTV, a subsidiary of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, in partnership with civil contractor Sta. Clara, have signed a US 62 million dollar contract to design and build Manila Water Company's Marikina North Sewage Treatment Plant.

Winnipeg - Winnipeg Selects Veolia, Bringing Public and Private Expertise Together In a New, Innovative Model

2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The City of Winnipeg has signed a unique and collaborative 30-year agreement with VWNA Winnipeg, Inc. (Veolia), a Veolia Water North America company. Under the agreement, Veolia and the City will collaborate on capital improvements and work together to provide ongoing strategic advice and guidance on design, construction, technology and operational needs for three Winnipeg wastewater treatment and biosolids facilities.

Paris - Fukushima: AREVA/Veolia system successfully contributes to treating contaminated waters

2011-07-11T00:00:00Z

The decontamination system co-developed by AREVA and Veolia Water for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has just reached the milestone of 18 000 tons of highly-radioactive waters treated to-date, representing 15% of the accumulated volume.

Chicago - Veolia Water launches interactive website examining water's economic, environmental and societal impact

2011-05-18T00:00:00Z

GrowingBlue.com provides a data-rich, user-friendly perspective on the state of water both globally and locally.

Chicago - CONSOL Energy Selects Veolia Water to Design, Build and Operate New Facility to Treat and Recycle Mine Water

2011-05-01T00:00:00Z

CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNX) has selected Veolia Water to design, build and operate a new state-of-the-art mine water treatment system to be located near Mannington, W.Va. Construction of the Zero Liquid Waste Discharge system began in July.

Paris - Veolia Water and Orange launch m2o city, a smart metering operator

2011-03-28T00:00:00Z

Veolia Water and Orange are joining forces in the smart metering sector and are launching m2o city, an operator specialized in remote environmental data and water meter reading services.

Paris - 2010 Annual Results

2011-03-04T00:00:00Z

2010 objectives exceeded.

Paris - Veolia Water is awarded two new contracts in the Sultanate of Oman

2011-01-12T00:00:00Z

Veolia Water has won the contract to provide co-management services to the Sultanate of Oman's water sector on behalf of the Public Authority for Electricity and Water (PAEW). This is a five-year contract, which has a two-year extension option.

Paris - Partnership - Wetlands protection and management

2010-11-24T00:00:00Z

Veolia Environnement, Conservatoire du Littoral and Rivages de France sign a partnership agreement.

Paris - Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and Veolia Water launch the "Hydrology for a Resilient City" Chair

2010-11-04T00:00:00Z

The Ecole des Ponts ParisTech engineering school and Veolia Water have signed a 10-year partnership agreement to create a research and teaching Chair in "Hydrology for a Resilient City."

Paris - Veolia Water to build and operate the new Marquette-lez-Lille wastewater treatment plant

2010-10-13T00:00:00Z

The Lille metropolitan area has awarded Veolia Water the contract to reconstruct the Marquette-lez-Lille wastewater treatment plant, the biggest such facility in the north of France.

Paris - Veolia Environnement wins a design-build-operate contract for a state-of the-art sludge treatment plant

2010-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Hong Kong Government has accepted the tender submitted by Veolia Environnement (Veolia Water and Veolia Environmental Services) to design, build and operate the sludge treatment plant in the western part of the New Territories of Hong Kong. The plant will treat the sewage sludge generated by Hong Kong's eleven sewage treatment plants.

Paris - Veolia Water is awarded the contract for Petrobras P63 project - Brazil

2010-08-02T00:00:00Z

Veolia Water, through its subsidiary Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (VWS), has won a contract for the water treatment package of the Petrobras Papa Terra P63 project (offshore oil production) in the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil.

Paris - The Veolia Observatory of Urban Lifestyles: Cities for Living - 2010

2010-07-07T00:00:00Z

Created in 2007 by Veolia Environnement, the Veolia Observatory of Urban Lifestyles today publishes the results of its second study, Cities for Living - 2010. Carried out by the TNS Sofres market research company, the study was designed to provide a better understanding of cities and their environmental challenges.

Paris - Call for tenders of the Syndicat des Eaux d'Ile-de-France (SEDIF)

2010-06-24T00:00:00Z

Veolia Water selected by SEDIF to manage its water service for 12 years

Paris - Veolia Water acquires several United Utilities' activities in Europe

2010-06-14T00:00:00Z

Veolia Water has announced the signature of an agreement with a view to acquiring a number of United Utilities' activities in Europe.

Paris - Reunion Island: Veolia Water, as consortium leader, wins concession contract for the Grand Prado wastewater treatment plant

2010-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Reunion North Interdistrict Community (CINOR), the authority responsible for wastewater treatment in the districts of Saint-Denis, Sainte-Marie and Sainte-Suzanne (approximately 190,000 people), has awarded the concession contract for the new wastewater treatment plant at Grand Prado in the district of Sainte-Marie to Veolia Water, as part of a consortium. The concession contract covers design, financing, construction and operation of the new plant for a period of 20 years.

Paris - Key figures at march 31, 2010

2010-05-07T00:00:00Z

Satisfactory operating performance, Strong increase in margins, 2010 objectives confirmed.

2009 Annual Results

2010-03-05T00:00:00Z

Significant reduction in net debt. Improvement of net income. Significant cost reductions. 2009 commitments met: divestments completed and positive free cash flow. 2010 objectives: priority on cash flow generation and cost reductions. Recurring operating income improvement.

Paris - Veolia Water and ESSEC's Institute for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship join forces for Grameen Veolia Water Ltd's social business operation in Bangladesh

2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The ESSEC business school Paris's Institute of Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship and Veolia Water yesterday signed a research partnership agreement to analyze, evaluate and develop the social business experiment being carried out by Grameen Veolia Water Ltd to produce safe drinking water for rural communities in Bangladesh.

Paris - Veolia wins 12-year contract to manage water services in Royan, France

2010-01-18T00:00:00Z

The municipality of Royan has awarded Veolia Water a delegated management contract for its water production and distribution services. The contract came into effect on January 1, 2010 and will generate estimated cumulative revenue of 17.3 million euros over its 12-year duration.

Paris - Appointments of Mr. Henri Proglio as Chairman of Veolia Environnement Board of Directors and Mr. Antoine Frérot, Chief Executive Officer of Veolia Environnement

2009-11-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Henri Proglio has been appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EDF by Order of French council of Ministers.

The change of governance announced for Veolia Environnement is confirmed and the following appointments, voted by the meeting of the Veolia Environnement Board of Directors on November 2, 2009, will take effect on the date of publication of the Order:

Mr. Henri Proglio will exercise the functions of the Chairman of the Board of Directors,
Mr. Louis Schweitzer is appointed Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors,
Mr. Antoine Frérot is appointed Chief Executive Officer.

Paris - Meeting of the Veolia Environnement Board of Directors and changes to the governance of the Company if Mr. Henri Proglio were to be appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EDF

2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Veolia Environnement ("VE") Board of Directors, chaired by Chairman and CEO Henri Proglio, met on October 21 and unanimously expressed its preference for maintaining the Company's current status as a Société Anonyme (public limited company under French law) governed by a Board of Directors, if Mr. Proglio were to be appointed Chairman and CEO of EDF. If such were to happen, the functions of Chairman of the Veolia Environnement Board of Directors would be separated from those of the VE Chief Executive Officer.

Paris - Meeting of the Board of Directors of Veolia Environnement to discuss the possible appointment of Henri Proglio as Chairman and CEO of EDF

2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Board of Directors of Veolia Environnement met on September 28, 2009, under the Chairmanship of the Chairman and CEO, Mr. Henri Proglio.The Board was informed of Mr. Proglio's possible appointment as Chairman and CEO of EDF following EDF's Shareholders' Meeting, scheduled to take place on November 5, 2009.

Paris - Brazil - Veolia Water is awarded new contract by Petrobras, the Brazilian Oil & Gas company, to supply new water and reuse treatment station.

2009-09-15T00:00:00Z

The Brazilian oil company Petrobras has awarded Veolia Water's subsidiary Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, under a 50/50 joint venture with Enfil, a Brazilian water treatment engineering company, the complete supply and construction of a water treatment and reuse station at Abreu e Lima Refinery, in Ipojuca, Pernambuco State. The amount of this contract for Veolia Water is worth about 119 million Euros.

Paris - 2009 Half Year Results

2009-08-06T00:00:00Z

Operating cash flow of €1,978 million, a decline of 4.9% at constant exchange rates as compared with the first half of 2008, thus an operating cash flow margin stable as compared with the full-year 2008 at 11.3%.
Stabilization of the net debt at €16.8 billion due to net investment reduction measures and despite the main disposals not yet having been booked.
Confirmation of 2009 objectives.

Paris - Grameen-Veolia Water Ltd inaugurates its first water treatment plant for the villagers of Bangladesh, in Goalmari

2009-06-24T00:00:00Z

A year after setting up a joint venture, Grameen-Veolia Water Ltd, 2006 Nobel Peace Prizewinner and founder of the Grameen microdredit Bank Muhammad Yunus, and Antoine Frérot, Chief Executive Officer of Veolia Water, have inaugurated the first water treatment plant intended for village populations living in remote rural areas of Bangladesh.

Paris - Veolia Water to build and operate the new Chartres Métropole wastewater treatment plant

2009-06-23T00:00:00Z

The future plant will help reduce the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by producing renewable energy.

Paris - Veolia Water selected by Doha, Capital of Qatar

2009-05-28T00:00:00Z

Veolia Water has signed a contract with the public works authority of the city of Doha - Ashgal- to run the Operations and Maintenance of two wastewater treatment plants which were recycling and fully reuse for irrigation and agriculture.

Paris - Madrid selects Veolia Water for wastewater treatment

2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The public company Canal Isabel II, which is in charge of water services in the Madrid area, has awarded a contract for the management of Spain's biggest wastewater treatment plant (in terms of daily flows treated) to a consortium headed by Veolia Water. It covers the operation and maintenance of the "South" plant, the main treatment plant for Madrid.

Paris - 2008 Annual results

2009-03-06T00:00:00Z

Good resilience of operating cash flow due to its complementary businesses and despite the impact of the downturn in the economy

Priority for 2009: Positive free cash flow, particularly due to a reduction in net investments by at least €1.6 billion as compared with 2008

Paris - Veolia Water wins two major contracts in plans for growing infrastructure needs in Ireland

2008-11-06T00:00:00Z

Veolia Water has been awarded two Design, Build & Operate contracts for major wastewater treatment plants in Mullingar and Castlebar in Ireland. The two contracts form part of wider plans for the sustainable development of both towns, and are worth an estimated cumulative turnover of around €74 million for Veolia Water over 22 years.

Paris - Veolia Environnement and Mubadala launch a joint venture compagny to build a strategic partnership in the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) region

2008-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mubadala and Veolia Water announced their intention to create a joint-venture company that will focus on the areas of water production and waste water collection and treatment in the Middle East and North Africa region.

Paris - Veolia Water wins contract for australia's first private water recycling scheme to an industrial network

2008-09-25T00:00:00Z

Veolia Water, together with AquaNet Sydney Pty Ltd (part of the Jemena Ltd group) has signed a contract with the Sydney Water Corporation for the first private scheme for recycled water to a network of multiple industrial users in Australia.

Paris - Veolia Water selected by Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates

2008-07-30T00:00:00Z

Paris - Veolia Water wins new design-build-operate contract in India for a water production plant in Nagpur

2008-06-09T00:00:00Z

Paris - Artenius, a subsidiary of chemical company La Seda de Barcelona, has chosen Veolia Environnement for its site at Sines in Portugal

2008-06-03T00:00:00Z

Paris - Veolia Water wins two major contracts with the siaap, the wastewater authorithy for Paris, France

2008-05-19T00:00:00Z

Paris - Veolia Water wins Saudi Arabia's first ever delegated management contract in the water sector

2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Paris, Geneva - Veolia Environnement and UNICEF join forces to tackle emergencies

2008-04-23T00:00:00Z

Paris - Foundation of Grameen-Veolia Water Ltd in Bangladesh

2008-03-31T00:00:00Z