160| 2020 Sustainability Report |A decade for us to transform Public-private collaboration Public-private collaboration is essential to emerge stronger presenting several initiatives on circular economy applied from this pandemic. This is the conclusion reached in the to the water cycle that the company has launched "Reconstruir Castilla y León" programme produced by the since 2015. These included the above-mentioned Deep Autonomous Television channel for Castile-León (RTVCyL). Purple, the Scalibur project, which seeks to reduce and recover organic waste to transform it into bioenergy This programme was recorded at the Avila DWTP, an and other by-products, and the Life Intext project, to installation managed by Aqualia. Representatives of the support European SMEs working to optimise low-cost local administration, the company and a group of engineers treatment technologies in small towns. shared ideas and agreed on the need to join forces to emerge stronger from the crisis generated by COVID-19. Caltaqua, Aqualia's Italian subsidiary, signed a collaboration agreement withthe University of In 2020, Aqualia also participated in the preparation of Palermo to study solutions that minimise the production a Circular Economy Master Plan for Castile-La Mancha, of sewage sludge. The Spanish Association for Desalination and Re- of the main companies in the sector and international use (AEDyR) held a meeting to report on the actions organisations in the field of desalination, such as IDA contemplated for the water sector within the European (International Desalination Association), Aladyr (Latin Union's Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. American Desalination and Water Re-use Association) The event was attended by Teodoro Estrela, General and EDS (European Desalination Society). Director of Water at the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Spain's Demographic Challenge, as well as by heads