Results 2020

WE ARE THE BENCHMARK REFERENCE
FOR THE ENVIRONMENT SECTOR IN PORTUGAL

We are the business group with the greatest impact on the lives of the Portuguese. Our responsibility is correspondingly large as is the strength of our determination to add social utility, to meet the environmental challenges, to ensure efficiency gains and to exceed the quality standards set for the water supply and sanitation services and for reutilisation and circularity.

In 2020, we did not stop from continuing to guarantee the provision of public services essential to the protection of public health, the continuity of economic activities, the preservation of natural resources and the wellbeing of citizens.

With our gaze set firmly on the future, we have made strategic commitments and launched pioneering and ambitious projects, strengthening the depth of our financial position and our operational efficiency so that we are thereby able to contribute to a more sustainable future.

Our
performance

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577.4

MILLIONS M3
Water collected

85%

Of the total volume collected
from surface sources

99.5%

Safe water
supplied (bulk)

532.4

millions m3
Wastewaters treated
and returned to nature

97%

WWTP sludge
recovered

100%

Companies
with environmental
management systems

88%

Companies
CERTIFICATED
IN QUALITY MANAGEMENT

35.67

gwh/year
Renewable energy
produced

Message

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“Our deep and firm responsibility and determination to contribute to a future in which economic growth is aligned with environmental responsibility, social justice and the quality of life of communities.”

José Furtado
President of the Board of Directors

A look back at 2020

A look back at 2020

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At the AdP Group, we guaranteed the continuity of the essential services. Every day, seven days a week, the Group deployed large numbers of staff to ensure that water still reached our homes safely and continuously. Just as many other staff were working to ensure that this water, after its usage, might either be reutilised or returned to nature in environmentally secure conditions, thus protecting both the environment and public health.

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Strategic framework of commitment

In a collective, participative and transversal process, with contributions made by staff from every level of the structure and from every group company, we established the Strategic Framework of Commitment that sets out a strategic path for strengthening our response to the dynamics associated with climate change, decarbonisation, the digital transformation and the circular economy.

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ENERGY NEUTRALITY

We are implementing an integrated program to reduce energy consumption and sharply increase our own production of 100% renewable energy via the endogenous resources of our companies. Through the ZERO program, we shall attain energy neutrality in 2030, which will position us as the first internationally scaled group in our sector to achieve this goal anywhere in the world.

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SARS-CoV-2 VIRUS EARLY WARNING system

We coordinate the consortium responsible for the COVIDETECT research project that integrates various AdP Group companies, Lisbon University’s Faculty of Science and the Higher Technical Institute and strives to demonstrate how wastewaters may provide a means of implementing a SARS-CoV-2 virus warning system at the community level and thereby contributing to improving the response to outbreaks of COVID-19.

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commitment TO THE SDGS aND agenda 2030

We support the SDG Ambition in Portugal, the accelerator program for the 17 SDGs – the Sustainable Development Goals making up the United Nations Global Compact. We are one of twelve Portuguese companies that responded positively to the appeal by the Secretary-General of the United Nations and correspondingly reaffirming our commitment to achieving the SDGs through integrating the challenges and targets of the SDG Ambition into our business management practices.

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resIliEncE AND THE INTEGRATED management OF WATER

Our companies promote the improvement of water management in contexts of scarcity, investing in projects that enhance the resilience of systems, coordinating with the different regional stakeholders, both strengthening the sources and seeking alternatives, especially through the production of water for reutilisation and as well as raising awareness about hydric efficiency, among other initiatives.

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INVESTING IN THE CIRCULAR economY

We would highlight the solutions for deepening the circularity in the utilisation of water with additional relevance arising from the context of climate change and obtaining value from the subproducts of treatment processes.

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Economic indicators

Economic indicators


+3.4%

715.3

Million EUR
Turnover


+2.3%

374.1

Million EUR
EBITDA

128.9

Million EUR
Investment

4 470.6

Million EUR
Operation assets (net)

55.4

Million EUR
TARIFF SURPLUS

85.5

Million EUR
Net annual result

When dealing with
service excellence,
our staff make
all the difference.

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3 411

Employees

From the north to the south of Portugal
and in different geographies

28%

Women

50%

OPERATIONAL TECHNICIANS

37%

Of senior
management positions
held by women

62

With disabilities

100%

Companies with
Gender Equality Plans

82%

Companies with
Workplace Health and
Safety Management Certificates

53%

Companies with
Social Responsibility Certificates

35%

Companies with Professional,
Family and Personal Life
Conciliation Management Certificates

We are rooted in the territory, from the north to the south of Portugal, through our management capacities, infrastructures and the equipment and services provided by our operating companies.

113

WTP

1 365

Water abstractions

1 952

Reservoirs

21 582 km

Water mains and distribution networks

25

Dams

1 004

WWTP

11 972 km

Drains network collectors

3 167

Pumping stations

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Water supply
Wastewater sanitation
Water supply and wastewater sanitation

The development of the AdP Group capacities and competences in the national and international markets has enabled us to capitalise on our experience, know-how and the technological solutions of the Águas de Portugal Group to obtain an international profile.

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