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The Global Business Forum (Le Carrefour Mondial des Métiers) is one component of the general policy of sharing knowledge and technological progress in the different business lines of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT. This is the annual meeting of operators and experts in the business units.

SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT is one of the main actor of the International Water Association World Water Congress and Exhibition that is to take place in Vienna (Austria) from the 7th to the 12 th of September 2008. In 2007, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT invested € 65 million in Research, development and technology. Through its policy of innovation, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT has developed technologies, know-how and a capacity of expertise worldwide to meet all its customer needs.

The operations of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT focus in equal measure on municipal and industrial clients: on the one hand there is water cycle management, from plant construction to the distribution of drinking water and waste water treatment, and on the other,waste cycle management, from collection to recycling and storage.

While the visual identity of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT is being revitalized, its commitment to the environment and to the future generations in turn perpetuates its history. Such new brand-related discourse in fact underscores SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT’s long tradition in maintaining a close relationship with its clients and the partnership with its subsidiaries.

With a desert climate, the countries of the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman) are confronted with a momentous challenge to their development that is unequalled elsewhere the world: the scarcity of their water resources. Indeed, although the Middle East has 5% of the world’s population, it has only from 1% of the water resources.