ABSTRACTWith the contract of affermage in 1966, Generale des Eaux?Loire Poitou has
been chosen as the délégataire of the town ?Mayenne? with the nature of the service
on branching, water meter, distribution, and client service. She must control technical
order while taking care the management of the client service, to commit daily on the
working of facilities, and with the Mazeaud law (08-02-1995), she has an obligation
to provide annually to the town hail, a summary of activities have been done, like
sorne modification of the network, and so on, which integrates as a part of financial
report.
The interest of a mathematical model of network of drinking water
distribution has a goal for knowing the conditions of the existing or extension
network and to select the best solution that gives the optimalisation of the investment
programs to satisfy and to complete the needs in drinking water in the future years.
Generale des Eaux has to propose this solution as a technical and financial
propo?itiOfl. and then submit it to the town hail. The price that is proposed must be
the most interesting with the best technical aspect.
From a technical viewpoint this project gives a chance to Generale des Eaux
to prove her technical capacity. The performance and professionalism are important
because the town hail only thinks on the result of the technical rnanagement the
services and the daily working engagement by Generale des Eaux in the field. This is
going to give a confidence of the continuity of the contract by the town hall.
From the commercial view, an engagement with the community can
accelerate the other communities to delegate their services of water and wastewater
management to Generale des Eaux The confidence of the customers gives the
important contribution to develop her business in this segment in the future years. In
the industry, she proposes to the big-medium enterprises, a complete range of
benefits, such as: an intervention of emergency, a diagnosis of the suits and hydraulic
networks, a global management of facilities, accompaniment of certification steps,
etc. These services can interest enterprises that need professional expert for the
management of water and wastewater purification.