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White paper on water security & water reuse

This publication is a call for action, issued by Veolia and its Stakeholders Assembly. Let’s lift the barriers to the wide deployment of water reuse as a key for environmental security.
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White paper on Water security & water reuse

We now live in times of water scarcity, everywhere. It is time to invest in water security. 

Veolia’s Stakeholders Assembly is launching its call to action, to unlock the economic and strategic potential of water reuse.

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Water bankruptcy is here

Water stress is becoming the norm, driven by climate change and competing uses, even in areas that were considered safe from droughts.

Governments and corporations all over the world are bracing themselves for the human, social and economic costs of water stress. 

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Our collective call for action

Veolia masters technical solutions, including water reuse. But no company can achieve systemic change alone. Starting from World Environment Day on June 5, 2026, Veolia’s Stakeholders Assembly is calling for collective action on four fronts: social acceptability; regulation; economic models and financing ; and deployment at large scale.

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Glass of water

Veolia’s 10 commitments

Veolia will amplify this collective Call for action at all levels, from local advocacy forums to international events, leading to the United Nations Water Conference in December 2026. 
It is also committing to action, including the creation of a methodological guide on the “Cost of no water”.

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Water reuse is not expensive: what is expensive is inaction.

Estelle Brachlianoff, CEO of Veolia

Estelle Brachlianoff, CEO of Veolia

The pioneers of wastewater reuse

Water reuse is not a new technology. Major projects have already been implemented in areas where water scarcity is a daily reality. 
Each of them was tailored to a particular environment and societal, economic, political context, as part of a carefully crafted water mix. The leaders of these projects shared their experience with the Assembly: what led to success and the lessons they learned.

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Water reuse

 

Without water, there’s no life, there’s no economy, there’s no international trade. So water needs to be shared. All local users need to sit around the table and talk about water: how much they need, how they can adapt to scarcity, about tariffs and prices that reflect the value of water.

Esther Crauser-Delbourg, water economist

 

A unique Stakeholders Assembly 

Veolia has a long history of stakeholders dialogue. But the Assembly that gathered for the first time in April 2026 was unlike any other. Each of the 34 representatives was carefully selected as a pioneer and expert of environmental security and water reuse, to challenge Veolia’s top management on these issues. And so they did, breaking new ground through open dialogue.

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