Multi-sectoral alliances for positive impact generation

At Aqualia, we see alliances as a strategic pillar to amplify our positive impact. Through collaborative leadership and through the strategic line SL7. Partnerships for positive impact of the Aqualia 2024-2026 Strategic Sustainability Plan, we promote cooperation with public administrations, companies, social entities, knowledge centres, local communities and other key stakeholders in projects that strengthen water governance, social cohesion, and the resilience of the territories in which we operate.

This collaborative model establishes us as an active agent in creating shared value: strategic alliances demonstrate the advantages of concessions in the water sector for the Administration and citizens alike, enabling us to share resources, foster innovation and develop solutions that have significant social, environmental and economic value.

Success stories:

Step by Water

StepbyWater is the first significant partnership to grow out of the “Water for Sustainable Development” International Decade for Action in Spain, which places SDG 6, Water and Sanitation, as a cross-cutting goal within the 2030 Agenda. The partnership, which features the public, private, third sector and civil-society sectors, has been promoted by more than twenty leading sustainability organisations, such as Aqualia. Further information at stepbywater.com.

Spanish Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Water is central to development and is a driver of change for a more just society, as highlighted by the Sustainable Development Goals. Therefore, since 2019, Aqualia and UNHCR have been building #SedSolidarios (#ShowSolidarity), a humanitarian campaign to ensure that thousands of refugees have access to a source of drinking water. For this campaign, people are being asked to put their own steps in so that refugees have to spend less time every day going out to look for water. Every kilometre run or walked will improve many refugees' lives: sedsolidarios.com.

Fundación Adecco

Aqualia is involved in two initiatives overseen by the Fundación Adecco: #NoHayLímites (#ThereAreNoLimits) to break down stereotypes that impede the professional development of individuals with disabilities; and #CEOPorlaDiversidad (#CEOForDiversity), an initiative that Félix Parra,  the company's CEO, has joined in order to unite companies and those who run them around the values of diversity, equity and inclusion.