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Goulburn Valley Water (www.gvwater.vic.gov.au)
Stretching across north-central Victoria from the picturesque eastern alpine region, north to the Murray River and south to the northern fringe of Melbourne, Goulburn Valley Water delivers water and wastewater services to more than 130,000 people in diverse geographical regions.
Focused on the key principle of delivering safe, reliable and affordable water and wastewater services, GVW is also committed to its five pillars of strategic focus - customer centricity, digital optimisation, safety culture, leadership and diversity and carbon and climate.
In the past couple of years, GVW has been shifting its focus to delivering exceptional services in innovative ways, rising to meet the continuing and emerging challenges of climate change, water availability and the expectations of our customers and community.
GVW is committed to providing the best prices for our customers, to prioritise modern and thoughtful customer service, to develop environmental and recreational outcomes to help support the liveability and prosperity of our communities and to continue to strive to improved water quality and supply in our service area.
We work to ensure social and environmental sustainability and deliver projects and infrastructure that help us continue to deliver essential services to a wide range of residential, business and industrial customers.
Keppel Urban Solutions Company (www.kepcorp.com)
Keppel Urban Solutions is an end-to-end master developer of urban developments, and brings together the diverse capabilities of Keppel Corporation Limited and its Affiliates in energy, property, infrastructure and connectivity to create highly liveable, vibrant, smart and sustainable communities.
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SIGMADAF (www.sigmadafclarifiers.com)
SIGMADAF is a wastewater treatment company with more than 40 years of experience, whose reputation is based on cost-effective and reliable modular products. We design water treatment plants and create systems of cleaning solutions to reuse water for all kind of applications. Our range of DAF systems, installed worldwide, is a benchmark for quality and is a guarantee for prescribers and end users.
Based on the experience gained in pre-treatment of lake and river water for Power Plants, we have developed the technological application of our flotation equipment for the separation of Algae in the necessary pre-treatment in modern desalination plants with reverse osmosis. The accurate design allows very high separation efficiencies to be achieved for a wide flow range.
SIGMADAF FPHF metal compact equipment technology for flow rates from 100 to 1.000 m3/h, and FPAC-CW equipment for flow rates from 1.000 to 4.000 m3/h built in civil works.
Thames Water (www.thameswater.co.uk)
Thames Water is the UK’s biggest water and wastewater services provider. Our key workers provide essential services around the clock to 15 million customers across London, the Thames Valley and surrounding areas. For an average of just over £1 a day for our households, we provide 2.7 billion litres of drinking water and safely remove 4.4 billion litres of wastewater every day.
We invested more than £1 billion again in 2019/20, leading to a total of £15 billion in the past 15 years, and we will continue to spend wisely on improving resilience, service and efficiency, as well as provide more support for customers in vulnerable circumstances.
We also have additional responsibilities to society and the natural environment. What we do and how we do it delivers significant public value, which is why we have ambitious plans to self-generate more of our own power, reduce our carbon emissions and increase biodiversity across our sites.
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Kyowakiden Industry Co., Ltd. (www.kyowa-kk.co.jp)
Kyowakiden Industry Co., Ltd. has been operating in three areas of “Water, Electricity & Energy and O&M” to make society safer and more comfortable since founding in 1948 in Nagasaki, JAPAN. Especially as a leading water treatment plant manufacturer, Kyowakiden has solved water related issues by providing optimal water treatment machines and system such as desalination plant, wastewater treatment plant and sewage treatment machines etc. for society and industries. Kyowakiden is also challenging to solve the expanding water issues worldwide of drinking water, wastewater and sewage water. In order to contribute to solving these issues, Kyowakiden are promoting R&D that create new technologies and systems. Kyowakiden has been working on introducing pressure retarded osmosis to seawater desalination plants that energy consumption in seawater desalination plants be reduced. Though these activities, we aim to contribute to achievement of SDGs with our customers.
Kazadi Enterprises (www.kazadienterprises.com)
Kazadi Enterprises is developing and marketing technology and tools that enable the acquisition and use of environmental thermal energy (ETE). In the water industry, this translates to creating products that make use of ETE to reduce the operational and energetic cost of desalination, water purification, and water recovery, reduce capital expenditures, provide anti-scaling measures, and more. Our goal is to support the water industry through innovative science and unexpected solutions.
Waterleau (www.waterleau.com)
Our mission is to protect the blue planet by saving its natural resources. This is why we are committed to reduce our society’s water footprint. We are helping businesses achieving their sustainable development goals. Our proprietary water treatment technology allows closing the complete water cycle. From wastewater treatment to water reuse, our eco-engineers are capable of designing solutions for increased water efficiency. We strongly believe water is our most valuable resource. That is why we continue to create awareness for sustainable water use. And it is why we continue to develop new technologies to preserve our planet for future generations.