MILAN (ITALPRESS) – From the Middle East to Africa, from Australia to North America, Webuild is celebrating World Water Day 2025 at its construction sites in some 50 countries around the world where it is helping to protect the planet’s blue gold, as demonstrated by the more than 20 million people served every day thanks to the plants designed and built by the Group and its subsidiary Fisia Italimpianti, which specializes in water treatment and desalination.”Water is the most precious resource on our planet, a common good that Webuild helps to protect and share,” commented Pietro Salini, the Group’s CEO. “Webuild’s commitment to building sustainable water infrastructure and implementing production processes that limit waste and dispersion is a pillar of our business plan. This is evidenced by ongoing investments in innovation and sustainability that are possible globally due to the scale we have achieved, and by international recognitions such as that of CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) as a world leader in climate change action, and the Gold rating from EcoVadis for ESG best practices. We are ready to make available the expertise gained in the most challenging projects worldwide where unfortunately water emergency has become an unacceptable condition of normality. “The clean hydro energy and clean water sectors represent a significant slice of the Group’s revenues, accounting for 23 percent of the total generated as of December 31, 2024, fueled largely by technically challenging hydro projects that stand as best practices on a global scale for their rate of innovation, such as Snowy 2.0, the largest renewable energy project in Australia, and projects to safeguard and rehabilitate water in very large basins, such as the Riachuelo project, one of the largest and most complex environmental sustainability initiatives in the world, with a treatment plant serving 14 municipalities, to improve the sanitary conditions of 4.3 million people in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Group’s iconic projects include systems of dams, aqueducts, desalination plants, water treatment and irrigation infrastructure capable of transforming communities and protecting the environment. Dams for irrigation purposes include the Tokwe Mukosi Dam in Zimbabwe to irrigate 25,000 hectares of farmland and the Neckartal Dam in Namibia to irrigate 5,000 hectares of land. The Group has built some major desalination plants, especially in the Middle East, such as the Shoaiba-3 Plant, designed and built by Fisia Italimpianti in Saudi Arabia, which produces 250,000 cubic meters per day of drinking water, covering the needs of more than 1 million inhabitants in the cities of Jeddah, Mecca and Taif. With Fisia Italimpianti, Webuild is in fact at the forefront of the design and construction of desalination plants capable of transforming sea water into a potable resource, ensuring access to water even in the driest areas of the planet. Seawater desalination represents one of the most promising methods for solving the critical issue of water scarcity, enabling the supply of clean, potable water for daily and public use, industrial processes and sanitary uses.
– Photo Project Riachuelo, Argentina – Webuild Image Library –
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