2020 Sustainability Report 2020 |Commitment and technology serving our clients | 135 Water quality The company has a network of accredited laboratories to analyse the wastewater in a number of municipalities distributed between Spain, Italy and the Czech Republic. Castile León, Galicia and Castile-La Mancha. They all have a structure that responds to the need for laboratories to be able to decide independently as The agreement also includes the training of company required by the EN ISO/IEC-17025 standard, article 4.1, staff and inter-comparison exercises to fine-tune a PCR and to the analytical needs of contracts managed by technique that will make the Oviedo laboratory's offer the Aqualia Group, in accordance with regulations.45 comprehensive. Aqualia's commitment to water quality has taken on In collaboration with several Italian regional governments special importance this year in which special mention and in alliance with the University of Palermo, Caltaqua, should go to the company's activity with regard to an Italian subsidiary of Aqualia, launched a programme monitoring of COVID-19 by the company's expertfor the early detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus by staff, in collaboration with the CSIC (Spanish National sampling and analysing wastewater. Research Council) with whom an agreement was signed Parametric results with regard to drinking water 2019 2020 No. parametric results with regard to drinking water 1,148,044 1,019,780 % compliant results 99.93% 99.89% No. non-compliant results 804 1,140 45 European regulations transposed into Spanish law by Royal Decree 902/2018 of 20 July, which establishes the sanitary criteria for the quality of water for human consumption.