Organization

Veolia Water is organized on both the global and the local level to fulfill its public service responsibilities and remain close to clients:

• Six major geographical areas for municipal and industrial services.
• small-scale local centers are run by managers with the autonomy of company heads;
• Joint head office services (finance, human resources, legal and investor relations, technical and research and communications).
• Two subsidiaries for technological solutions and design and build of facilities.

In order to be as close as possible to the needs of its customers, Veolia Water has opted for a highly decentralized organization structure:

• Profit centres on a human scale (<100 employees).
• A manager with most of the responsibilities of a company director.
• Over one thousand top managerial positions.

As a result of its decentralized strucutre, Veolia Water has set up co-ordination boards:

• Between geographical areas and head office departments;
• Between each of the geographical areas in order to exchange expertise;
• Between operations and design-build activities;
• With other Divisions within the Veolia Environnement Group