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Message from the CEO
A new age
At Aqualia, we are aware that we are living in public-private partnerships that have reported and
a new age, one in which everything changes continue reporting benefits for citizens in different
incredibly quickly. As such, every organisation parts of the world.
must rapidly identify and address these essential
issues as a condition for survival. In this regard, In this edition of our Corporate Social
Aqualia’s twelfth Corporate Social Responsibility Responsibility Report, we intend to show our
Report explains how the company that I manage real commitment to citizens. The following
has identified its priorities and taken steps pages contain the main economic, social and
throughout 2017 to rise up to the challenge of environmental milestones that we’ve reached.
helping achieve the 17 Sustainable Development
Goals (SDG) that the UN has set for 2030. The world-renowned newspaper, the Financial
Times, in partnership with the International
We believe that ethics and transparency based Finance Corporation (IFC), has acknowledged this
on actions instead of words are critical for our commitment through selecting one of Aqualia´s
everyday operations from the added value flagship projects, the New Cairo Wastewater
perspective: managing the water service for Treatment Plant in Egypt, as a finalist in its
over 22.5 million people worldwide. We will have Transformational Business Awards.
succeeded when the citizens for whom we serve
feel proud of our work, share our values and In addition, this project was chosen by the United
join our efforts to achieve the United Nations’ Nations to elaborate a Public-Private Partnership
Sustainable Development Goals. In recent years, reference Case Study, which can be downloaded
terms such as re-municipalisation, globalisation from the United Nations Economic Commission
and marketization have tested the limits of the for Europe website. The results of this study have
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