Veolia Water Milwaukee manages, operates and maintains MMSD’s regional wastewater treatment system, serving 28 communities in the greater Milwaukee area. The entity operates through a public-private partnership, which ensures public ownership and control while enabling private-sector best practices, technological expertise and operating know-how.

Veolia Water Milwaukee is the nation's largest wastewater partnership, serving 1.1 million people in 28 municipalities. This includes a 411-square-mile service area with a 2,600-mile deep tunnel inline storage system of collection sewers.

In 2008, Milwaukee's two facilities both received awards from the National Association of Clean Water Agencies. The awards celebrate 11 and 12 years of perfect environmental compliance with permit standards.

Veolia Water Milwaukee began operation on March 1, 2008, and employs over 200 people. The company is active in the community, supporting educational and environmental causes and activities. The company is introducing a proprietary educational program, the Water Box, to 5th grade science classes district-wide in fall of 2009, and annually funds research projects in emerging water issues.

Veolia Water Milwaukee is a wholly owned subsidiary of Veolia Water North America, the leading provider of comprehensive water and wastewater services to municipal and industrial customers, providing services to more than 14 million people in approximately 650 communities in North America. Veolia Water North America operates the nation’s largest water public-private partnership (Indianapolis), the largest wastewater partnership (Milwaukee) and the oldest partnership (Burlingame, California).

The company is part of Veolia Water, the world leader in water and wastewater service and one of the world's major designers of technological solutions and constructor of water facilities. With 93,400 employees worldwide, Veolia Water provides water service to 80 million people and wastewater service to 59 million.

Veolia Water is part of Veolia Environnement (NYSE: VE and Paris Euronext: VIE), the worldwide reference in environmental services with annual revenues of $50 billion in 2008. Visit www.veoliawaterna.com and www.veolia.com.

Visit the company’s web sites at www.veoliaenvironnement.com and www.veoliawaterna.com