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Water is a utility of primary importance for all industry sectors.

Used as drinking water, boiler water, process water, cooling water, wash water, a fire extinguisher and an effluent treatment, this resource alone can account for 15% of business investment costs. For example, it takes:

  • 4 to 8 litres to produce 1 litre of beer
  • 5 to 15 litres to wash a microchip
  • 140 to 200 litres to produce 1 kWh of electricity
  • 8,000 litres to build a car
  • 11,000 litres to produce 1 metric ton of steel

Veolia Water makes water management more efficient and lessens the impact it has on its clients' overall financial performance.

Controlling Costs

The costs linked to water production or treatments are not accurately identified as they are not always considered. By using quantitative and qualitative water cycle management these costs can be precisely controlled.

Veolia Water helps its clients make in-depth assessments to work out where productivity gains can be made. For example, we can analyse their:

  • Operating conditions for the facilities
  • Human resources
  • Energy costs of treating the water

...and come up with exactly the right strategy.

Respectful Manufacturing

We try to anticipate changes in regulations to enable our clients to comply with their environmental obligations and targets.

Veolia Water also believes in clean manufacturing, which means sourcing clean water and disposing of waste water with minimal impact to the environment. We apply this through using the best technical and financial solutions; from supplying the correct components to taking responsibility for the entire water management cycle.

Benefiting from Guaranteed Results

Whether we are delivering standard equipment, integrated systems or turnkey constructions, our aim is to exceed our clients' expectations when it comes to performance, production times, costs, after-sales service, assistance and maintenance.

Innovative Solutions

In the UK, Veolia Water spends over £0.6 million each year on research projects devoted to specific company and collective industry issues. Key projects include:

  • Water quality in the distribution system
  • Development of water safety plans
  • Behaviour of soil conditions and their contribution to bursts and leakage
  • Impacts of climate change on supply and demand balance
  • Development of a pollution assessment tool for water resource protection
  • Investigation of the ecological impacts of low flow rivers
  • Application of a biodiversity methodology to pilot sites

Our research and development programmes improve the performance and operation of existing water and waste water distribution systems, as well as developing new solutions for our clients.

Our know-how in integrating and delivering these solutions means that we can offer all industries:

  • Solutions that are compliant to environmental and health and safety legislation
  • A greater flexibility of using equipment adapted to meet specific needs
  • Tried and tested technologies leading to cost-effective solutions, easy maintenance, reliability and quick delivery