The issue of public health lies at the heart of Veolia Water's operations and its responsibility as an operating company that provides an essential service.
Veolia Water contributes on a daily basis to the public health of local communications through its professionalism and its expertise. It is, after all, access to clean water which is the principal lever in improving the health of local communities.
As such Veolia Water undertakes to:
provide drinking water for all. As part of its contracts in developing countries, Veolia Water is extending the water supply systems and carrying out social connections to provide water and wastewater services to those who previously had no access to these services.
In Nigeria, 261 new water hydrants have been installed by SEEN. This means that those people who now have access to this water no longer have to drink water from wells which is often contaminated and unfit for human consumption
. In Gabon, since the start of the contract, almost 400,000 more people have access to the public water supply system and now benefit from quality drinking water. In 2005, the bacteriological compliance rate of the water supply there was 98.2%.
improve the monitoring and quality of the water produced. The quality of the water produced by Veolia Water has constantly been improved thanks to new technological processes such as rapid filtration, ozonation, the introduction of activated carbon, nanofiltration and biological treatment systems.
300 Veolia researchers work on developing new processes to remove pollutants as well as new analysis techniques that can detect micro-organisms and chemical products more quickly.
Each year, Veolia Water conducts more than 2 million water analyses throughout the world.
In Tangiers, in Morocco, the sanitation program led by AMENDIS, the Moroccan subsidiary of Veolia Water, aims to restore the quality of the bathing water. It aims to improve hygiene and protect the health of the 700,000 people living there as well as numerous holidaymakers.
In France, the seaside resort of Dieppe has volunteered to pursue a policy to restore the quality of the natural environment and to better protect the health of tourists. Veolia Water, who manages its wastewater system, has enhanced its wastewater treatment system including the final disinfection of water using ultra violet technology. The environmental impact has been reduced and the town has regained its Pavillion Bleu certificate (water quality label) for the good quality of its bathing water.