SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT contributed throughout the week to the exchanges and shared its know-how with all the stakeholders in the water sector. SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT has made a commitment to offer concrete solutions covering topics related to social responsibility, to dialogue with stakeholders, to research and innovation, as well as to governance.

The WATER FOR ALL Programme is a specialist initiative of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT that aims to provide expert knowledge adapted to the local situation, where the company seeks to identify solutions that will benefit populations without access to essential services.   As part of the 6th World Water Forum, Sidoine Ravet, engineer and manager of the WATER FOR ALL Programme at SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT, explains to us in detail the importance of the expertise of water and sanitation operators, which takes on a particular significance within the context of local situations where these vital services do not exist. He has spoken at several sessions to an audience made up of experts, professionals and students, in order to [...]

On 17 January this year, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, the Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing, set the course for the 6th World Water Forum during the second consultative meeting of stakeholders in Paris. Held in Marseilles in March 2012, it will be the “forum for solutions”. Its ambitious goal will therefore be to arrive at concrete solutions to ensure that access to water is not only a recognised right, but a reality as well.

At the end of September 2010, the UN Human Rights Council declared that access to drinking water and sanitation was included in the “right to an adequate standard of living”, as recognized by several international treaties. “Water must be drinkable, accessible, available and affordable, and supplied without any discrimination”.