Municipal Government signs Memorandum of Understanding with French company to invest in SAPASMA

Published January 29th, 2022

By signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Potable Water and Sewage System (SAPASMA) and the French company ‘Altereo’, the municipal president Mauricio Trejo promoted this joint project to increase the capacity to operate, maintain and renew the pipeline infrastructure and address leaks in the distribution networks.

“It leaves us very motivated. On the one hand: investment and the profit objective and on the other: 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,” he said during the protocol ceremony, 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 are to increase the capacity to operate, maintain and renew the piping infrastructure and address leaks in the distribution networks, so as to ensure sustainable water services for all San Miguel residents.

With Altereo’s experience applied to SAPASMA, the company will work for the next 12 months, with the possibility of extension, in 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 renewal of conduction networks and culminate with the delivery of water with the necessary pressure to Sanmiguelenses’ homes.

The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding commits the participants to join the common goal, 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 such specialized software.

Altereo’s experience 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 with the 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 company Le’Belier, which already has an automotive production plant in San Miguel de Allende’s territory.

Regarding ‘Altereo’, it is a company originally from Venelles, France, which belongs entirely to the holding Altereo Development, 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 Territory, Public Policy Support and Geographic Information, among other fields.