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R E S P O N S A B I L I T Y 33 R E S P O N S A B I L I T Y Aqualia has just presented its 2018 Corporate Social Responsibility Re- port, which for the company represents “an exercise in maximum transparen- cy”, in the words of Juan Pablo Merino, Director of Communication and CSR. Under the title #Impactoreal, the report is the result of a laborious analysis of materiality that Aqualia has carried out in order to know the most relevant impacts of its activity and its repercus- sions on its stakeholders. Felix Parra, CEO of Aqualia, opens the Report with an interview in which he provides the keys to the company’s last year and the main milestones. It highlights water management as one of the key factors in achieving success on the road to sustainable develop- ment: “the efficient management of water resources is a strategic activity, our business model contributes to the generation of wealth and has a positive impact on society as a whole”, points out the company’s chief executive. In this sense, Aqualia has developed an analysis to detect the Sustainable Development Objectives (SDO) on which the company has a direct and priority impact. The aim of this work is to align the company’s strategy and establish a roadmap aimed at achie- ving these ODS, thus becoming the first company in the sector in Spain to acquire such a commitment. “Aqualia is prepared and equal to the challenge posed by the ODS”, says Felix Parra in an interview in which he reviews in depth the challenges and opportuni- ties faced by the company in terms of business, innovation, ethics and sus- tainable development. Ensuring triple sustainability: social, environmental and financial In line with the ODS as a whole and, in particular, with water management, the company has adopted a position of transforming leadership to establish a basis for measuring and guarantee- ing the triple sustainability -social, en- vironmental and financial- required in the management of integral water cy- cle services. A challenge that requires public-private alliances: “I cannot ima- gine a future in the water sector if the challenges are not shared between the public and the private; between organisations and employees, compa- nies and citizens”, points out Aqualia’s CEO. Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Aqualia publishes its Corporate Social Responsibility report, drawn up in ac- cordance with the option of exhaustive compliance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, in its GRI Standard 2016 version and has been verified by an independent external entity (AENOR). Aqualia’s 13th CSR Report highlights that “ethics and business are compatible and should be inseparable” Under the title #ImpactoReal, the Report gathers the 2018 milestones in a clear and visual way, with infographics and a wide interactive and multimedia content through QR codes, and includes for the first time an in-depth interview with Félix Parra, CEO of the company, in which he reviews the challenges and opportunities faced by the company. As a novelty, together with the Corporate Social Responsibility Report, Aqualia has launched a video in which the main achieve- ments and challenges set out in the #RealImpact Report are pre- sented in two minutes. The document has infographics to help the reader get a glimpse of Aqualia’s activity and its main per- formance figures for 2018. In addition, it has been provided with interactive content through the inclusion of QR codes throughout the report, which allow mobile ac- cess to the extended information in multimedia format. The Report is published in Portu- guese, as well as in Spanish and English. It has a digital version navigable from iPad and other de- vices and can be accessed and downloaded directly from the web. Video, infographics and interactive content