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the frst Spanish company awarded a contract in the Middle East

Aqualia won the frst water management contract ever awarded to a Spanish frm in the Middle East. The FCC specialist in end-to-end water management will be im-plementing and executing in two years an innovative plan to detect and repair water leaks in the city of Riyadh in order to reduce these incidences and to increase the eff-ciency ratio of the network and of its sector plan.

NWC CEO Loay A. Al-Musallam and Aqualia’s Deputy-Manager for Develop-ment and Internationalization, Miguel Ju-rado, executed the agreement in the pre-sence of the Spanish Ambassador in Saudi Arabia, Pablo Bravo.

Loay Al-Musallam mentioned at this event that “the award of this Contract is part of NWC’s strategy which aims to attract the leading international companies in this sector to Saudi Arabia”. He added that “the strength of the Saudi economy is one of the main reasons for attracting inter-national operators”, also mentioning the Government’s intention of promoting the

country’s development in areas such as water management.

The contract, worth 27 million Euros, opens the door to a market such as Saudi Ara-bia which has the greatest potential in the world in the water sector and whose Go-vernment aims to allow the entry of the world’s leading companies in the sector in which Aqualia is the third-ranking company.

Spain’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Pablo Bravo, congratulates Loay Al-Mussalam, CEO of the National Water Company, after the execution of the Agreement. On his left, Miguel Jurado, Aqualia’s

Deputy-Manager for Development and Internationalization

We will implement a plan to optimize, sectorize, and monitor the water distribution network

in the capital of Saudi Arabia

Distinguished Company prize

awarded by the University of Extremadura

Aqualia was recognized as a “Distinguished Company” by the Economics and Business Department of the University of Extrema-dura for its collaboration and commitment to training students in the various services managed by the company in the Autono-mous Community, an initiative that was launched in 2007.

Since that time, more than 30 students from this department have been involved in in-house training in the cities where Aqualia provides its management services, such as

Castuera, Santa Marta de los Barros, Gua-reña, and Badajoz.

Among the participants at the award cere-mony held at the Economics and Business Department of the University of Extrema-dura, were María Dolores Aguilar, deputy-director and councilor of the Economy, Trade, and Innovation Department; Carmen Muñoz, the director of the department, and Segundo Piriz, dean of the University. Je-

sús Rodriguez, director of the Extremadura delegation, accompanied by Julio Gómez, head of Client Management and tutor of the students over these past few years, at-tended the event and collected the prize.