Since its creation in 2004, the Veolia Foundation has carried out nearly 250 expert missions, both on development projects and in humanitarian emergencies. Illustrations.
2024
Deployment of an Aquaforce RO to treat excessively high fluoride levels, leading to several Veoliaforce missions.
2023
Rotation of four Veoliaforce experts, deployed by the French Red Cross via the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, after the earthquake on 8 September.
2023
Following the destruction of the Kakhova dam in Ukraine, Aquaforces and a volunteer were sent to train Solidarités International teams in their deployment.
2023
Mobilisation of two Veoliaforce experts to work with colleagues from Veolia Water Technologies (VWT) Turkey following the earthquake that struck Turkey on 6 February 2023.
2022
Provision of Veoliaforce expertise and mobile water purification units after deadly floods.
2022
Veoliaforce mission, carried out with the French Red Cross, in particular the Americas Caribbean Regional Intervention Platform (Pirac), to ensure the distribution of drinking water to households in Vieux-Habitants using an Aquaforce 2000.
2021
Local teams trained and new vehicles to collect waste in Atar, Mauritania.
2021
Mission of an expert from Veolia's Scientific and Technological Expertise Department (DEST) to take samples and send them for analysis of water potentially contaminated after the explosion of a munitions depot in Bata.
2021
Mobilization of a Veoliaforce expert with his mobile analysis laboratory to analyze the impact of ash on water quality after the eruption of La Soufrière, in the south of the French West Indies.
2018-2020
Optimization and adaptation of the wastewater treatment plant at the Sittwe camp for displaced persons. Two Veoliaforce missions, on-site and remote, in 2019 and 2020.
2020
After the devastating explosion on 4 August 2020, a diagnostic mission followed by rotations of Veoliaforce volunteers to search for leaks in the water network.
2020
With the Société d'exploitation des eaux du Niger (SEEN, Veolia), Veoliaforce volunteers deployed three Aquaforces 5000, mobile water purification units, to supply water to people affected by the floods in September 2020.
2020
Provision of temporary access to water in unsanitary camps in the Paris region, following a needs assessment phase with Solidarités International.
2019
Mobilization with the French Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières and Solidarités International, to send a dozen Veoliaforce volunteers to deploy water purification equipment.
Since 2018
Development of a solution to treat wastewater from the hospital in the Drouillard district of Port-au-Prince.
2018
First deployment of the Aquaforce 15000 to supply a refugee camp run by Médecins Sans Frontières.
2018
Support for the water supply in the Kutupalong-Balukhali camp (Rohingya refugees), along the Burmese border in Bangladesh.
2018
For three weeks, two Veoliaforce volunteers trained members of the Iraqi Red Crescent to use water supply solutions in emergency situations.
2018
Intervention in partnership with UNHCR to study the hydraulic network of a refugee camp located in Mbera, on the border between Mauritania and Mali.
2018
After an earthquake followed by a tsunami in Indonesia in September 2018, mobilization of the Veolia Foundation as part of the mechanism steered by the crisis and support center (CDCS) of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs.
2016
Intervention alongside the French Red Cross and the Qatari and Iraqi Red Crescent to supply drinking water to the Khazer 2 camp, located 30 km east of Mosul in Iraq.
2017
Emergency water production and setting up of water distribution points before re-establishing network connections.
2017
For three days, some fifteen volunteers from the Paris region lent a hand to the Foundation's team mobilized at the Massy warehouse to pack materials for future emergency interventions.
2017
Mission carried out with Médecins du Monde to take stock of environment and health issues (water and air quality, waste management and sanitation) in a shantytown in the capital of the Philippines.
2015
Training of Médecins Sans Frontières staff and deployment of an Aquaforce 500 mobile water treatment unit to supply water to a mobile health centre run by the NGO.
2013
Installation of Aquaforces 500 mobile water purification units and a distribution system (ramps and flexible tanks). Assessment of networks and water treatment plants after the passage of a cyclone. (rampes et réservoirs souples).
2008
Veoliaforce intervention as part of the partnership with UNICEF after the passage of four hurricanes between August and September 2008. Mission in Gonaïves, in the northwest of Haiti, the region hardest hit by flooding after four hurricanes.