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AQUAPOLO AMBIENTAL

Brazil's largest

water reuse project

www.aquapolo.com.br

Aquapolo is a model of sustainability; the project has proved its environmental, social and economic
value to big companies such as Braskem and Bridgestone, as well as to the whole ABC region, (a large
industrial region in Greater São Paulo) where water infrastructure is crucial.

Aquapolo has also set a great example of successful public-private local economy. This enterprise has directly contributed to improving the
partnership, with an innovative model where the customer participated quality of life and social and economic development in the region.
in the project's conception and helped establish the guarantees and
collaterals for Project Finance. Water stress in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, comprising the
state capital and 38 satellite municipalities, is a growing reality; due to
Last, but not least, Aquapolo has generated local positive impact by the increasing pollution of water sources and the impact caused by
helping companies understand the real value of water and how it climate change. A group of 7 cities in the region, form what we call
should be correctly measured by companies and large users, not only ABC Paulista. With a population of almost 3 million people and more
by its tariff, but also through the risk of not having water and the impact than 24,000 industries, the ABC region has a water availability of only
companies are causing to both the communities where they capture it 130m³/inhabitant/year, or about 5% of the UN’s recommendation.
and nature itself.
Currently, the Brazilian industrial sector, and specifically in the ABC
The Aquapolo Ambiental case − São Paulo-SP, Brazil region of São Paulo, has two sources of water: direct capture from
The implementation of Aquapolo Ambiental in the ABC region of São surface (rivers and lakes) or underground (wells) natural sources; or
Paulo is the most relevant case, of the last 10 years; the project required the provision of potable water through the public supply. Directly or
water source diversification in a location with structural water stress that indirectly, industries consume part of the water available in the basins
impacted public supply and large-scale economic activities. By recycling where they are located and compete with domestic consumption
effluents to produce water for industrial purposes, Aquapolo delivered and other economic activities, especially in locations where there are
“zero impact” of climate change on several industries in the region, large industrial consumers and limited availability. Water consumption
while directly contributing to reducing competition for drinking water tends to grow with the increase in population and economic activity,
between the industrial sector and the population and other sectors of the and in view of this, any contribution towards lower consumption and »

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