Promote the fight against water emergency in Italy and in the world, demonstrating how environmental challenges such as water scarcity can be transformed into opportunities for daily life. With this goal webuild, a world leader in the realization of infrastructure in the water sector, supports the 19th Biennial Architecture 2025 in Venice. “The works related to water will be the real and largest challenge of the future to guarantee well -being for the populations,” said Pietro Salini, CEO Webuild. “Water is the most precious resource of our planet, a common good that webuild contributes to protecting and sharing”, continued Salini.
” Our unwanted systems are needed 20 million per day, demonstrating our commitment to resolving the global water emergency “, underlined the CEO. ” Our leadership in the water sector is the result of years of innovation and dedication, and we are ready to continue making the difference for communities all over the world starting from Italy, where we have just presented a project to the Sicilian region to definitively resolve the problem of water shortage in some areas of the island. As in other countries the theme of water can be addressed and resolved, and we are available to the institutions with the necessary competence of our group and the entire supply chain that works in the sector with us. A strong political will is needed. “
The sustainable management of water represents one of the main global challenges to face, at a time when 40% of the global population live in areas at risk of water deficiency, while over 2 billion people do not have access to drinking water. The webuild group, which in 2024 recorded 23% of total revenues in the Clean Hydro Energy and Clean Water sectors on a cumulative basis, is a reference partner for customers worldwide to contribute to the solution of global challenges such as climate change or demographic increase in cities, with constant delivery capacity and over 330 works completed in the last 12 years.
The group boasts solid experience in the hydroelectric sector, which represents the first source of renewable energy in the world. In the field of green energies, in fact, hydroelectric is the most reliable and constant source, in addition to being one of those with a lower unitary cost, therefore represent an effective solution both in the energy transition process, and to expand access to energy in the countries and territories in which it is still missing or insufficient. The hydroelectric projects in progress for the group will allow to generate over 14,000 MW of power and will guarantee clean energy and low cost to millions of people worldwide.
Among the iconic projects of the group include dams of dams, aqueducts, desection systems, water treatment and irrigation infrastructures, capable of transforming communities and protecting the environment. Among the dams for irrigation purposes, the Tokwe Mukosi dam in Zimbabwe, to irrigate 25,000 hectares of agricultural land and the Neckartal dam in Namibia, to irrigate 5,000 hectares of land. With Fisia Italimpianti, which boasts almost a century of history in the desection and water treatment sector, the group positions itself on the market as a strategic player in areas subject to water stress, in particular in the Middle East.
Thanks to the deselators already made, Fisia Italimpianti is now able to cover the water needs of over 20 million people on a global scale, guaranteeing access to water even in the most arid areas of the planet. The group, through Fisia Italimpianti, has created some of the main desection systems in the Middle East as the Shoaiba-3 system in Saudi Arabia, which covers the needs of over 1 million inhabitants in the cities of Jeddah, Mecca and Taif, and that of Jebel Ali M in the United Arab Emirates, to produce drinking water and for other domestic uses for the population of Dubai. Transforming the salted and non -drinking water of the canals of Venice into filtered and purified water, even suitable for the preparation of a coffee, is the idea behind the special project of the ‘Canal Cafè’ Biennale, an initiative by Carlo Ratti supported by the Webuild group.