Water segment - Overwiew

Of all the Group’s core businesses, the management of water in all phases of the integrated water service is one of the most important. The activities are carried out with a growing focus, in line with the greater attention to water resources at an international level. The protection of the resource is expressed in the priority of recovering losses (see the box in the paragraph Attention to water consumption), in the already mentioned protection of springs (paragraph Protection of the local region) and searches for new springs and also in an increasingly precise monitoring of water consumption, seeking to reduce it.
The total pool of users served in Italy by the Group ¹¹⁵ is about 8.6 million inhabitants, with volumes of drinking water fed into the network in 2018 equal to about 1,260 million cubic metres.
The volumes of drinking water introduced by Acea Ato 2, Acea Ato 5 and Gesesa amounted to 721 million cubic metres, with a total supply of 382 million cubic metres for 4.3 million inhabitants served. For specific data on the three companies, see the Environmental Accounts.
In Ato 2 - Central Lazio alone, comprising the city of Rome and 111 other municipalities – of which 79 ¹¹⁶ under management at 31 December 2018 – the volume of water fed into the network serving the approximately 3.7 million inhabitants, was approximately 600 million cubic metres (of which 438 million cubic metres in the “historical network” of Rome and Fiumicino)¹¹⁷