Environmental Indicators

The environmental performance of Veolia Water is managed by the Environmental Management System. This is a set of management procedures used to achieve the global goals set by the Veolia Environnement Group.

Management
Air
Drinking water
Wastewater
Energy
Waste
Soil
Methodology

This performance is then measured using environmental reporting carried out by the Technical Department of Veolia Water.

Baseline figures (such as the volume of water produced and wastewater treatment efficiency etc.) are provided by all of Veolia Water's operating companies around the world then consolidated according to region and country.

All business units work using the same modus operandi so that reporting data are homogenous.

Indicators are then constructed. The aim of these indicators is to illustrate Veolia Water's performance in the most objective way possible.

Management

Environmental Performance Report	Unit	2004	2005	2006	2007	NRE	Cert.
Management
Percentage of relevant sales covered by an EMS	%	69	77	84	80,9		yes
Percentage of relevant sales covered by a certified management system	%	77	70	86,6	85		yes
Number of sites covered by an ISO 14001 certificate	Nb	185	259	223	254	yes
Percentage of audited priority sites	%	48	85	89	84,9		yes
Sales of relevant activities	EUR billion	7	5,6	5,94	6,1

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Air

Environmental Performance Report	Unit	2004	2005	2006	2007	GRI	NRE	Cert.
Air
Direct emissions of CO2	millions of tonnes of CO2	0,2	0,2	0,2	0,2	EN17		yes
Emissions de Gaz à Effet de Serre totales	millions of tonnes of CO2	0,2	0,2	2,1*	2,5	EN17 EN18	yes	yes

* For the first time in 2006 these emissions include indirect energy emissions.

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Drinking water

Environmental Performance Report	Unit	2004	2005	2006	2007	NRE	Cert.
Drinking Water
Volume produced by our treatment plants	Millions of cubic meters	-	5600	5861	7050
Volume entering our water supply systems	Millions of cubic meters	-	5452	5672	6924
Efficiency ratio of drinking water distribution networks (worldwide)	%	77,3	77	77,7	75,3*		yes
Efficiency ratio of drinking water distribution networks in the EU (15 countries)	%	81,2	80,7	81,1	81,7		yes
Industrial water consumption	Millions of cubic meters	225,9	190,4	368,5**	394,4	yes
Percentage of water consumers equipped for metering	%	91	93	93	95
Drinking water quality - bacteriological compliance rate	%	99,3	99,3	99,3	99
Drinking water quality - overall compliance rate	%	98,9	98,7	99,1	98,6

* The efficiency ratio of Veolia Water drinking water networks in the European Union remains greater than 80%, in line with the commitment made in 2002 and carried forward until 2011. This illustrates the high performance level in mature markets. Development in countries in which water services require major upgrades over several years is incompatible with commitments taken on a global scale. Thus in 2007, the addition of a new contract for a city of 1.5 million residents with an efficiency ratio of 15.4% has reduced our worldwide efficiency by 2% that would have been equal to 78.5% and therefore higher than 2006, if this contract had not been included.

** This volume includes the seawater consumed by the desalination plant at Ashkelon

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Wastewater

Environmental Performance Report	Unit	2004	2005	2006	2007	GRI	NRE	Cert.
Wastewater
Capacity	M per capita equivalents	-	62,51	74,22	76,4
Volume treated	Millions of cubic meters	-	3760	4478	5139
Global efficiency ratio *	%	93	91	90	90	EN21	yes	yes

* BOD5 treatment efficiency: biological treatment plants with a treatment capacity of over 3 metric tons of BOD5 per day - 50 000 PE

** Veolia Water has developed a composite indicator that better reflects the performance of treatment systems used, taking account of and weighting different forms of pollution, following the approach used by water agencies in France. The chemical oxygen demand (COD), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and suspended solids (SS) are thus included alongside the biological oxygen demand (BOD), to represent a global efficiency ratio.

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Energy

Environmental Performance Report	Unit	2004	2005	2006	2007	GRI	NRE
Energy
Total energy consumption (electricity and thermal energy)*	Millions of MWh	4	5	5,7	6,7	EN4	yes
Percentage of self-produced renewable energy related to total energy consumption	%	New indicator in 2007			6,78

* Global energy consumption declared for 2007 consists only of vehicles-related energy consumption

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Waste

Environmental Performance Report	Unit	2004	2005	2006	2007	GRI	NRE
Waste
Quantity of sludge produced	thousands of tonnes MS	777	806	865	942	EN20
Quantity of compost produced	thousands of tonnes	69	-	24,9	26,3		yes

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Soil

Environmental Performance Report		Unit	2004	2005	2006	2007	GRI	NRE	Cert.
Soil
Percentage of sludge recovered for agricultural reuse		%	46	40	45	47,37			yes

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Methodology

Corresponding with key GRI indicators which are based on version 3 of the Guidelines, referred to as G3.

Data required under the French New Economic Regulations Act (Nouvelles Régulations Économiques) can be found in the Reference Document 2006: section 17.2 for corporate information; section 6.3.3 for environmental information.

Some indicators have been certified by an external agency (see CERT column in the Report)

For further information regarding the methodology