Water Alliance comprises Acque Bresciane, Alfa, BrianzAcque, Como Acqua, Gruppo CAP, Gruppo TEA, Lario Reti Holding, MM, Padania Acque, Pavia Acque, SAL, Secam and Uniacque, thirteen public integrated water service companies that together provide a quality service to around eight and a half million inhabitants and have decided to work as a team to combine rooting locally and the best practice in public water management.
The network is sponsored by ANCI Lombardia and Confservizi Lombardia.
Aggregated, these companies have total revenues in excess of 960 million Euro and investments of over two billion Euro; serving around 1,200 Municipalities for a total of almost 8,5 million inhabitants and aim to implement shared projects, increasing innovative capacity and competitiveness, while maintaining independence and autonomy and ensuring proximity to the territory served.
In 2019, Water Alliance set up coordination discussion tables - called "position papers" - on a provincial basis regarding the following macro-themes: health and consumers; water and agriculture; water, education, culture, and sport; development and innovation.
The "Development and Innovation" round table was held at the headquarters of the Associazioni Industriali in collaboration with Anci Lombardia in Monza. A working group dedicated to the future of the integrated water system involving the most important national and regional players, including the Lombardy Region, the ATOs (the Optimal Territory Environment Agency regulating the water service), Assolombarda, Confartigianato with university professors and researchers, as well as water service managers.
For BrianzAcque, "innovation" is a key word in everyday life, starting with:
• water quality controls through our network of laboratories
• recovery and reuse of sludge, the final residue of the integrated water cycle, so that it can be transformed from a waste material into an opportunity for the population, for the environment and the companies in a logic of circular economy and open innovation
• smart meters: digital meters that can be controlled remotely and that the Water Alliance companies have long since adopted with a plan to install and replace them
with an installation and replacement plan for old meters, promoting reading and control technologies able to monitor consumption and promote a more sustainable use;
• monitoring of discharges along the Seveso River using drones, carrying out georeferenced mapping of the sources of pollution in the Seveso River.
Consult the website www.wateralliance.it
