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AWS Certification for Val di Setta potabilization plant

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AWS Certification for Val di Setta potabilization plant

The drinking water treatment plant in Sasso Marconi, serving the primary aqueduct in Bologna, is AWS - Alliance for Water Stewardship - certified, guaranteeing its efficient use and sustainable management of water resources.

Sustainability is an integral part of the Hera Group’s strategy across all of its business operations, with the aim of pursuing the creation of shared value. This commitment is reiterated in Hera’s water resource management and protection, which led to the AWS - Alliance for Water Stewardship - Certification for the Val di Setta Drinking Water Treatment Plant. 

Commitment to promoting AWS principles

By obtaining the AWS Certification, Hera consolidates its commitment to water saving and continues to encourage the correct use of water, promoting and adopting the five standards of the Alliance for Water Stewardship: 

  • good water governance,
  • sustainable water balance,
  • good water quality status,
  • healthy status of important water-related areas
  • access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for all

The site covered by the Certification is the Val di Setta - Sasso Marconi (BO) - drinking water treatment plant serving Bologna’s main aqueduct. The AWS aims to reduce the water impact in the certified site area: for Hera, this means continuously improving and adapting water management and risk mitigation actions and strategies, making the territory more resilient to the water availability scenarios that already exist and those to come in the future.

Becoming more resilient means promoting to stakeholders and concretely implementing a water management system that aims to make processes more efficient and business processes able to achieve optimisations and measurable savings in daily water consumption.

It is in this context that the active engagement between the key figures of the territory is strategic and necessary insofar as disseminating the AWS philosophy: sharing the good practices of sustainable management of the water resource with stakeholders and working together towards the common objective of responsible water use throughout the region.


This approach translates into numerous activities and projects that fall under the UN 2030 Global Agenda for Resource Efficiency “calls to action”, including the sustainable management of water resources.

As an Integrated Water Service operator, the Hera Group has been committed for several years to supporting and promoting national and international initiatives that aim to protect the water resource: it participates in the CEO Water Mandate, as an Endorsing Company, it was the first Italian utility company to join the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, it is a promoter member of the Circular Economy Network and a member of the Italian Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform.

Full compliance with national and regional regulatory requirements and our ongoing collaboration with local authorities in the definition of basin governance, in compliance with existing sustainability plans, are a guarantee of Hera Group's commitment to the protection of the environment and water resources.

Obtaining the AWS standard for the Val di Setta drinking water treatment plant certifies Hera as a water steward, or sustainable manager of water resources, committed not only to implementing good practices in our own organisation, but above all to promoting collaboration and active communication with the regional stakeholders that are directly and indirectly connected to the same supply sources. This important objective that we have achieved will be consolidated over time while maintaining the organisational capacity necessary to successfully implement the requirements of the AWS standard; obtaining certification was a rigorous process that included performance analysis and on and off site improvement actions, across the entire company. Achieving AWS Certification has therefore required a strong commitment from all company structures, which once again united as an alliance to achieve this goal.

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