Eau de Paris

French water supply and waste collection company

Eau de Paris

Company type| Municipally owned corporation
Industry| Water industry
Founded| 1 February 2009
Headquarters| Paris

Area served

| Paris

Key people

| Célia Blauel (chair)
Products| Drinking water
Parent| City of Paris
Website| www.eaudeparis.fr

Eau de Paris (Paris Water) is the publicly owned company responsible for the public water supply and waste water collection for the city of Paris.

## History

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In 1985, Jacques Chirac, then Mayor of Paris decided to transfer the municipal water service into the hands of three private entities with a direct contract and without a public procurement procedure.[1] The property of water wasn't formally transferred and was kept as a public common good. Eau et Force and Compagnie des Eaux de Paris had a 25-year concession for the distribution and customer services respectively related to the right and left banks of the River Seine. In 1987, the water production and transport were delegated for a 25-years period to SAGEP, a semi-public company owned by Ville de Paris (70%) and Suez & Veolia (28%).[2]

Eau de Paris was created in 2008 after a ballot initiative from then Mayor Bertrand Delanoë. The city's water was then substantially managed by two private companies (Veolia and Suez) which the municipal government bought out.[3]

## Operations

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The company distributes 563,000 m³ of drinking water a day.[4] In 2010 the company began installing drinking fountains dispensing fizzy water in the city.[5]

## See also

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* Pavillon de l'eau

## References

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1. ^ Le Strat, Anne. "Paris: local authorities regain control of water management". Transnational Institute. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
2. ^ Anne Le Strat. "The remunicipalisation of Paris' water supply service" (PDF). p. 11\. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 11, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2020.Google Cache
3. ^ O'Brien, Hettie. "Our privatised water system has failed - it's time to look for alternatives". Open Democracy. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
4. ^ "Homepage". Eau de Paris. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
5. ^ Fenwick Elliott, Annabel. "Paris is installing free fizzy water fountains across the city". The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 July 2018.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eau de Paris.

* Official website

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

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* United States
* France
* BnF data