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Aqualia takes over water management in Riohacha , capital of the department of La Guajira, and exceeds 1.2 million inhabitants served in Colombia The contract, which provides service to a population of 196,000 inhabitants for 30 years, provides the company with a portfolio of 293 million euros and is Aqualia’s largest operation in Colombia. water With the start of operations in Rio- hacha, the company strengthens its position in Colombia, where it arri- ved in 2016. The object of the public tender, which Aqualia has been awar- ded, is the management, finan - cing, operation, rehabilitation, construction, design, expansion, replacement and maintenance of the infrastructure of the residen- tial public utilities of aqueduct and sanitary sewerage in the district of Riohacha for a period of 30 years. The contract represents a portfo- lio of 293 million euros. Aqualia is thus expanding its wa- ter and sewerage operations in Colombia, in line with its strategy of consolidation and expansion in the country and its commitment to public service. In Colombia since 2016 In the area of integrated water cycle management, Aqualia is al- ready present in 32 municipalities in eight of the country’s depart- ments, where it provides service to 1,241,000 inhabitants. Aqualia began its activity in Colombia in 2016, with the participation in the Consorcio Expansión PTAR SALI- TRE which it leads, and whose mis- sion is to manage the expansion of the El Salitre wastewater treatment plant, a key project to improve the sa- nitation system of the city of Bogota and its surroundings. In 2020, the company continued its development by running two operations in parallel. On the one hand, it began to provide service in twelve municipalities located in After winning the corresponding public tender against Veolia, the company Aqualia has begun ope- rating the end-to-end water cycle in Riohacha, capital of the Colombian department of La Guajira, which belongs to the Caribbean region in the northeast of the country. The company had already been present in this department since November 2022, when it took over the manage- ment of the municipalities of Maicao and Albania. B U S I N E S S B U S I N E S S 12