BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Sustain.
Sec. Nature-Based Solutions
This article is part of the Research TopicBuilding the Business Case for Nature-Based Solutions: a Corporate, Academic, and Practitioner PerspectiveView all articles
Green Meets Grey: Veolia's Approach for Resilient and Sustainable Water Management
Provisionally accepted
Magali Dechesne1*
Joana Castellar2Beatriz De La Loma Gonzalez2Joaquim Bofill Añaños3Maria Dolores Hernandez Peñalver3Gary Moys1Grégoire Decamps1- 1Veolia (France), Paris, France
- 2Centro Tecnológico del Agua, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- 3Aquatec, Barcelona, Balearic Islands, Spain
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As climate change intensifies impacts on the water cycle, adaptation of water utilities is key to maintain drinking water, wastewater and stormwater services. For Veolia, Nature-based Solutions (NBS) will play a significant role in providing more resilient water services, in combination with conventional grey infrastructures. NBS will enhance water security while contributing to biodiversity preservation, risk reduction, carbon emission reduction, and improved well-being. This green-grey integration can lead to optimized investment and operational costs, water quality compliance and cultural adoption by traditionally technological-oriented water utilities. This paper presents Veolia's green meets grey approach including an assessment framework to assess NBS benefits, case studies, and implementation challenges for wider NBS adoption in the water management business.
Keywords: green infrastructure, Nature-based solution, Key performance indicator, Aquifer recharge, floodable park, Biodiversity, society, Real-time monitoring
Received: 27 Feb 2025; Accepted: 19 Nov 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Dechesne, Castellar, De La Loma Gonzalez, Bofill Añaños, Hernandez Peñalver, Moys and Decamps. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Magali Dechesne, magali.dechesne@veolia.com
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