Veolia Water Signs an agreement of collaboration with the city of New York

The first phase of this agreement comprises a study (already in course) on the performance of the current service of water, that concludes in a report of measures to improve the efficiency of said service and attain the reduction of the costs of operation. Once completed this phase and in case that the public entity of New York like this decide it, Veolia Water will commission to set up the second phase of the agreement, that will comprise the execution of the measures recommended. During the four years of the second phase (postponable to other two years more), the city of New York will trust the experience and the know do of Veolia Water to optimise the service of water and residual water, that will continue managing the public entity with his own personnel. Veolia Water, working hand manually with the entity, asesorará to the employees of the public company to improve the operative performance of the service and reduce the costs.

The agreement will allow to the department of Protection of the Environingingment of New York an annual saving of between 100 and 200 million dollars in the operation and maintenance of the service of water of the city, on a total budget of 1,2 billion. The services are used at present by 9 million people, of which 8 live in the city of New York.

The optimisation of the methods of operation will improve the quality of the service at the same time that it will invest in the learning of the employees and will reduce the amount of the bills of the users.

The income of Veolia Water will establish in base to the savings obtained in the costs of operation auditsed, that estimate reach the figure of 36 million dollars.

This agreement supposes a perfect example of the new model of collaboration that proposes Veolia Water with public organisms, to which offers his experience to improve the performance of the services of municipal waters and his recommendations on the technical solutions, technological and necessary logistics to attain it, always under the premises of the sustainable development.

Laurent Auguste, general director of Veolia Water EE UU, affirms that “it treats of a model of agreement in which the paper of the private company goes further, expanding his field of performance to the evaluation of the management of the public services of water and helping to the operator to implant the measures of necessary improvement. Under the terms and conditions of this type of agreement, Veolia Water shares with the city of New York the profits and risks by equal”.