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01.01 Message from the CEO
A place in the world
I have considered that the title of a beautiful film would be
appropriate to introduce Aqualia’s ninth Corporate Social
Responsibility.
Trends that provide a broader view of the traditional business
objective are gaining adherents. Employees, suppliers and
customers also have contractual relationships with the company
that will undoubtedly give them rights. The company is then
understood as a mechanism of coordination of specific actions
from all stakeholders, making it necessary that their relations are
based on mutual trust and commitment towards the company.
Achieving that, however, is no easy task. Working in this regard
is Aqualia’s commitment and we do it every day. I hope we have
been able to reflect that in this document by stating specific
facts about our business.
In Aqualia, our mission and the place we want to occupy in the
everyday life of the consumer in the world goes beyond the
legitimate pursuit of corporate profits.
Thus, by pursuing an innovative and different positioning we
intend, for example, to develop an environmental commitment
in all areas of the company, applying the best environmental
practices in daily work; thus becoming pioneers, as reflected
in the collaboration between Aqualia and the Botín Foundation
for a study on Cantabria’s Water Footprint which ended in 2014.
Also last year, Aqualia Infraestructuras managed successfully to and innovation in the development of projects that address the
calculate and verify their Carbon Footprint, based on the UNE-
EN ISO 14064-1: 2012, identifying and quantifying the direct
and indirect emissions released into the atmosphere in order
to reduce them.
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During 2014 more than 3.2 billion euros were invested in R&D.
Aqualia has worked with 22 national and 7 international centres
for the development of 17 projects with 8 patents pending that
require the dedication and commitment of highly specialized
workforce. With this we are getting ahead of developments in
the sector with R&D projects which can be safely applied in
the market. This work is being recognized, since last November
we were awarded with the Innovation + Sustainability + Net
Award, awarded by the EXPANSIÓN newspaper, through the
ELAN project.
The company also has joined the Spanish Group for Green
Growth. An initiative that emerged in 2013 in the framework
of the European Union and which brings companies together
involved in the fight against climate change.
A place in the world. Returning to the title of the film, the success
of Aqualia’s activity, and I have no doubt about this, is due to
the professionalism and quality of the 7,639 people who are
part of the company the company. 19.3% of them work outside
of Spain as first line protagonists of an international expansion
that allows us to maintain our activity in a total of 20 countries,
focusing on international growth in the EU and in areas such as
Latin America and the Middle East.This increasing development
reflects the enormous adaptability of the company to the different
social and technical realities. The professionalism, experience
various stages of the complete water cycle have been key to
the international expansion.
“Companies are a powerfultoolto
improvethe worldthat we do not
like,that isthe key ofthe Social
Responsibility”.