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SUEZ Environnement and its subsidiaries are committed in daily life to meet the challenge of preserving resources and protecting eco-systems by providing innovative solutions in the areas of drinking water, sanitation and waste management.
A world leader in water and waste treatment
GDF SUEZ’s environmental businesses are grouped around its SUEZ Environnement subsidiary, the world leader that operates exclusively in the water and waste treatment business, in which it has a 35.4% stake.
Specializing in the management of the rare, vital resource that is water and the treatment and recovery of waste, SUEZ Environnement is developing in two sensitive markets that will see major growth in the long term. Its business areas respond to basic needs and fall under the series of problems facing the planet: demographic pressure, growing urbanization, increasing scarcity of resources and climate warming.
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Active on every continent, SUEZ Environnement carries out 80% of its activities in Europe. Beyond those borders, it distributes or sanitizes water and treats waste in
Broad expertise in its business areas
SUEZ Environnement’s business areas span the entire water value chain:
- collection, treatment and distribution of drinking water,
- collection and treatment of wastewater, including industrial wastewater,
- recycling and recovery of wastewater sludge
| Management and treatment of water in Australia | |
| After the construction of the desalination plant in Melbourne, Degrémont, a subsidiary of SUEZ Environnement, in partnership with Transfield Services, won in February 2011 the contract for managing water and sanitation services for 1.1 million residents of the city of Adelaide. This contract represents a cumulative total amount of €840 million. | |
In the waste area, SUEZ Environnement orients its services to waste recycling, now viewed a resource in the value chain of energy production, or towards other recycling subsidiaries (for example, steel, glass, plastic, papers, electronic equipment, and batteries).
