Water traceability

It is not easy to transform into shared awareness the complex work that makes drinking water safe and high-quality; even more distant from public perception is the knowledge of the delicate purification processes necessary to return treated wastewater to receiving water bodies. These are industrial operations carried out thanks to efficient plants, dedicated infrastructures, energy use, and the maintenance of a vast distribution and collection network spanning thousands of kilometers.

All these activities are managed by the Veritas Group, a company that has chosen, with this informative document, to make accessible and transparent that silent and uninterrupted process that occurs before and after the tap at home. Daily work is carried out on two fronts: on one side, the sustainable extraction of water with extraordinary characteristics, a resource that could be considered fossil, given to us by the particular geological conditions of our territory; on the other, the continuous improvement of wastewater treatment capacities, to reintroduce it without significant impacts into the delicate ecosystems of the territory, whether marine, lagoon, or riverine.

The traceability project aims to develop, also through data visualization techniques, a narrative of the "urban water cycle," allowing stakeholders to evaluate not only the complexity of a system mostly hidden underground, but also the crucial importance of their role.

Management, operation, and maintenance of the water infrastructure and industrial system are resilient, dynamic, and engaging activities, far from trivial. A coherent set of activities dedicated to mitigating human impact on the environment and adapting territorial infrastructures to climate change.

Numbers

560 people — engineers, technicians, operators, and employees of the Veritas Group.

114 million cubic meters of water flow through the Veritas distribution network in one year: each resident benefiting from the service in the served territory would have, minus losses, enough water to fill an apartment of about 50 m² from floor to ceiling!

81 million cubic meters of treated wastewater per year: enough to fill over 32,000 Olympic swimming pools!

Thanks to the main treatment plants, more than 99% of wastewater returns to the sea, rivers, or lagoon as treated water, preventing the discharge of over 10,000 tons of suspended solids, about 300 tons of phosphorus, and 2,000 tons of nitrogen.