By Carola Rico
Through the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding with the Potable Water and Sewage System (SAPASMA) and the French company ‘Altereo’, the municipal president Mauricio Trejo seeks to promote this joint and pioneering project in Mexico, to strengthen the operating agency and the people of San Miguel so that they have an efficient water service, considering urban growth.
“It leaves us very motivated. On the one hand: investment and the profit objective and on the other: the relationship and as an objective: joint actions to improve all the aspects that we have here and that lead us to improve water management, which in San Miguel de Allende is one of the great challenges”, stated Mauricio Trejo, during the formal act, highlighting the presence of the French community in San Miguel de Allende.
Trejo Pureco was accompanied by the president of the SAPASMA Board of Directors, Jaime Labrada, and Hugo Wiederkehr, commercial technical engineer and representative of the company ‘Altereo’, in coordination with the French Embassy in Mexico.
The expectations of this tripartite project is to increase the capacity to operate, maintain and renew the pipeline infrastructure and address leaks in the distribution networks, so as to guarantee sustainable water services for all San Miguel residents.
With the experience of Altereo applied to SAPASMA, work will be done for the next 12 months, with the possibility of extension, on the decarbonization of the city’s water service, based on the innovative technologies proposed to attack leaks (with artificial intelligence of sensors ) and gradually advance in the rational renovation of conduction networks and culminate in the delivery of water with the necessary pressure to homes in San Miguel.
The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding commits the participants to join the common objective, through a systemic approach with several innovative technologies for the decarbonization of the water service of the city of San Miguel de Allende; This is the first ‘Altereo’ project in Mexico and San Miguel de Allende is a pioneer in applying said specialized software.
The experience of ‘Altereo’ is verified in the drinking water system in Paris, France, which is also a World Heritage City, where a project focused on the temperature of the pipes with the impact of climate change was developed.
Within the framework of this commitment, the municipal president stated that he will follow up with the French Embassy in Mexico, to continue diplomatic efforts so that San Miguel de Allende and this European country continue to strengthen ties and thus benefit the communities of both. places with cultural, tourist and economic development projects such as the Le’Belier company, which already has a production plant for the automotive industry in San Miguel.
Regarding ‘Altereo’, it is a company originally from Venelles, France, wholly owned by the Altereo Development holding, with 33 years of engineering, consulting and innovation for public services in France and abroad, focused on Water and Environment, Sustainable Management of the City and the Territory, Support for Public Policies and Geographic Information, among other fields.
