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NICOLAS RENARDCEO’s Advisor

Veolia group

Creative and eco-friendly solutions for wastewater services

Creative and eco-friendly solutions

for wastewater services

Ho Chi Minh City, October 2018

€25,125 Min revenue

55% municipal sector

45% industrial sector

(€2.6 Bn in Asia-Pacific)

168,800employees

(22,690 in Asia-Pacific)

96million people supplied with drinking water

62million people connected to wastewater systems

4,117 drinking water treatment

plants managed

2,878wastewater treatment

plants operated

Water & wastewater:

N° 1 worldwide

Waste:

N° 1 worldwide

Energy: N° 1 for

energy optimization

40million people provided

with collection services

on behalf of municipalities

47million metric tons

of treated waste

737,977business customers

579waste treatmentfacilities operated

45million MWh produced

40,210Heating installations managed

2,291Industrial sites managed

595heating and cooling networks operated

Veolia 2017 keys figures

Hong-Kong

New York

Shanghai

Prague

Shenzhen

Warsaw

Sydney

Chicago

Singapore

Berlin

Delhi

London

Riyadh

Pittsburgh

Paris

Leeds

Examples of cities

or public authorities:

Kunming

Oman

Hiroshima

Beijing

Durban

Kyoto

Nagpur

Brussels

Mexico

Budapest

Houston

Abu Dhabi

Milwaukee

Hunan

Lyon

Examples of corporations:

Global and local clients

– I –

Wastewater

treatment:

some

challenges

and

new trends

Wastewater management is still the poor cousin of the water sector.

▪ Beyond the issue of access to basic sanitation for all, there is a lack of comprehensive

wastewater collection and treatment systems.

▪ Many cities have wastewater pipes, but no or very limited sewage treatment capacity.

▪ Wastewater management suffers from a combination of institutional fragmentation, weak

national planning and low political status.

In the huge urban areas with their

teeming population, urban inflation

generates pollution at unbearable

levels.

▪ The destructive potential of

wastewater that is neither

collected nor treated is truly

explosive. These “sanitary bombs”

are primed, ready to explode.

▪ For obvious reasons of hygiene,

the bigger cities become, the more

urgent will be the challenge of

wastewater collection and

treatment.

Curbing the contamination of the environment by untreated wastewater

discharged by cities and businesses

Latin-America & the

Carribean: 85 % South East

Pacific: 80 %

East Asia:

90 %

% of wastewater discharged into rivers and

seas without treatment – Source: UNEP

New standards will be introduced for emerging parameters such as antibiotics,

estrogens, etc. They will cause us to toughen up our treatment process.

▪ The European Commission has drawn up a list of 4,000 active pharmaceutical

ingredients that are likely to end up in wastewater: contraceptives, antidepressants,

antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, anticancer drugs…

▪ Some of them have an impact on fish and amphibian reproduction.

▪ However, in most countries there are currently no regulation regarding the treatment of

these drug residues.

Drug residues are a diffuse pollution: in Europe, > 90 % of drug residue is

discharged by people outside the hospital, because of outpatient care.

At the moment, wastewater treatment plants block only half of the

pharmaceuticals in the water.

Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor technology, supple-

mented by ozone oxidation, is a solution to eliminate

drug residues that is effective and economical.

▪ Up to 90% of the pharmaceutical residues found in the

municipal wastewater have been removed (eg: in Aarhus).

Eliminating drug residues in municipal wastewater

Many wastewater utilities have been locked in a cycle of underfinancing,

undermaintenance and underexpansion.

Weak cost recovery

Poor service

Low investment

Poor skills development

Inefficient

operations

Customer

dissatisfaction

Low willing-

ness to pay

The vicious cycle of weak cost recovery

Financing wastewater services

Wastewater = a useless and toxic by-

products of cities and businesses Wastewater = a resource

Treated wastewater

Sludge

treatment

BiorefineryWastewater

treatment

plant

Recycled wastewater

Bioenergy

Biomaterial

Today In 10 years

Over the coming 10 years, wastewater treatment plants will undergo profound changes

Sludge

treatment

12

. Better control

. Higher efficiency. Innovative process

1) Starting point: 60% covering ratio currently achieved in Central Europe

2) Consuming less energy

3) Producing more energy from biogas

The move towards energy-sufficient

wastewater treatment plant

Wastewater recycling is a fast track for increasing the

productivity of water and therefore reducing freshwater

withdrawals.

▪ Reusing water before it is finally discharged back into the environment

increases the productivity of each m3 borrowed from nature (by 2, 3,

10,…, as much as wastewater is reused.

Wastewater is the only resource that increases with economic

development, in parallel with the growth in need for water.

Recycling reduces the amount of purified wastewater returned to

the environment.

Wastewater recycling is a less-energy consuming solution

compared with seawater desalination and brackish water

desalination.

Less water

withdrawals

Less

pollution

Less energy

consumed

The world’s installed capacity for recycling is expected to triplicate in the

course of the next decade

The many advantages of wastewater recycling

Resource

Domestic

consumers

Wastewater treatment

Wastewater

Industrial

consumers

Reuse for aquifer

recharge

Municipal reuse

Indutrial reuse

Reuse for irrigation

Water is too precious to be used only once,

before being returned to natur.

Recycling wastewater, an tried and tested method of producing water for

industrial, agricultural or domestic purposes

High density territories require space-saving technologies (1): wastewater treatment compact plants

Hubgrade

center

Marseille’s wastewater treatment

plant built under a soccer stadium

in order to save space (Capacity:

1.6 million equivalent-population).

It is the largest underground water

treatment plant in the world.

Monaco wastewater treatment

plant processes the effluents of

100,000 inhabitants. It is built

inside a state-of-the-art building

equipped with a powerful odor

management system.

High density territories require space-saving technologies (2): High speed

clarifier Actiflo

Hubgrade

center

Conventional Horizontal Settlers(2 m3/h)

Lamella Settlers (20 m3/h)

Actiflo(120 m3/h)

Actiflo is 60 times more powerful than

conventional settlers

Example of reference: Kuala Lumpur

( 11,6 m3/s)

Improving the aesthetic appearance

of water infrastructures

Hong Kong’s sludge treatment plant

provides a glimpse of the

architectural revolution that is

renewing environmental businesses.

The same aesthetic trend is observed

in solid waste management sector

Leeds solid waste sourting and treatment center

II – Water and sanitation services:

a few case studies

Restoration of Beijing

Yansan wetlands

Objectives defined by the Public Authority:

▪ To increase drinking water availability

▪ To satisfy domestic and industrial water needs.

This popular tourist resort in the Hawaiian Islands

is undergoing rapid population growth and hosts

many industrial operations.

▪ To find a cost-effective solution for wastewater

treatment and disposal

Veolia solution:

▪ Honolulu city entered into a 20 year partnership with Veolia (world leader

for wastewater recycling) to design, build, and operate a 45,000 m3/d water

reclamation facility.

▪ Wanting the best available technology for the best market price, the authority

selected the cost-and-time saving benefits of a DBO option.

❖ It enabled the public authority to sign a single contract for services with one

private-sector team.

❖ Investments were spread out over a 20-year period and operation was

outsourced. The PPP saved the city and taxpayers millions of dollars in

construction, maintenance and operating costs.

Honolulu wastewater recycling plant (1)

Processes generate 2 qualities of water:

▪ One is a high-purity water that is sold to the power

and petrol-refining companies (Chevron).

▪ The other quality is for irrigation of golf courses and

landscaping, in order to support the tourism industry.

Results of Honolulu choice for wastewater

recycling:

▪ For industrial clients: it provides an additional solution for satisfying their

needs at a competitive price; actual price being achieved is lower than potable

water;

▪ For the residents: it saves 45,360 m3 of drinking water a day. Wastewater re-

used for industrial purposes freed up fresh water abstracted for the

municipality.

▪ For the city: it creates a financial revenue stream from treated wastewater

(with formerly no value) and it reduces the city’s operating costs;

▪ For the environment: it reduces pollution from the sewage being discharged

to the sea in this exotic holiday location.

Honolulu wastewater recycling plant (2)

A record 25-year and €3.3 billion contract awarded to Veolia in 2016.

Contract’s scope: managing the full water cycle of Sinopec Yanshan

petrochemical complex, (including cooling water, demineralized water,

industrial water, drinking water, chilled water, wastewater and firefighting

water of the Yanshan facilities).

▪ One of the largest production

bases of synthetic rubber,

synthetic resin, phenol acetone

and highquality refined oil

products in China.

▪ It processes over 10 million

tons crude oil and produces

800,000 tons ethylene

per year. It can produce 94

varieties of petrochemical

products.

Depolluting highly contaminated wastewater of Sinopec,Asia’s leading refining company (1)

Why did they choose Veolia? For one simple reason: they were under

an obligation to apply the new standards for the treatment of

industrial effluents laid down by the Chinese government, which are

even more strict than those of Europe and the US (for Chemical

Oxygen Demand).

Not only do we decontaminate their processed water, which is

heavily polluted with oil residues, but in addition we recycle it, which

creates an alternative water resource and reduces extractions from

aquifers that are running out.

The dedicated JV between Yanshan Petrochemica and Veolia,

consolidated by Veolia, employs more than 800 people.

Depolluting highly contaminated wastewater of Sinopec,Asia’s leading refining company(2)

Conclusion

In the long run, no business can succeed in a polluted environment.

In the long term, no country can follow economic development in a

degraded environment:

▪ In a more and more competitive market, the quality of the environment is one of the

most important criteria for investor when selecting a country or city.

▪ Wastewater services restore or reinforce the attractiveness of territories.

▪ It is an illusion to hope to boost tourism if wastewater facilities are not built. If a local

authority position itself at the top-of-the-line of tourism market, wastewater

infrastructure should also be positioned at the top-of-the-line.

It is necessary to plan wastewater infrastructure coherently with urban

development and economic activities, in order:

▪ to anticipate the impact

of the city’s development

on the sewerage system

▪ to safeguard the natural

assets

Efficient wastewater services are a driver

for economic development

It is possible to escape the spiral of “treating more and more a resource

more and more polluted”, but it needs a political tenacity that will last for

many years:

▪ In just 10 years, from 1998 to 2008, Chile has increased the rate at which it purifies

waste water from 16 % to 84 %.

▪ In France, 20 years of sustained effort were needed to restore the quality of major

rivers and great lakes.

In Europe, governments first of all began to tackle industrial pollution:

▪ This is the most offensive pollution,

▪ It is a localized and not dispersed pollution.

▪ It came from businesses which were presumed to have enough financial resources to

pay for cleaning it up, or which were thought to be wealthier than local municipalities.

The quality of rivers and seawater is always a true measure of the

wastewater policy, because they cumulate the effects of pollution.

In the end, coastal waters are the ultimate judges of the overall effort

made by public authorities to deal with the problems of wastewater.

Protecting the environment against wastewater

is feasible

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