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Protecting the planet and future generations is our business and our conviction.

GÉRARD MESTRALLET SUEZ CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

In late 2017, the staff of GE Water & Process Technologies joined the SUEZ teams. These new colleagues have become part of the history of a Group that is now over 160 years old. A history written by its people, pioneers who have contributed to great revolutions on behalf of human progress since the Group's creation: the hygiene revolution, then the one of urban quality of life, and today the resource revolution. A history also driven by high ambitions: improving human health by providing universal access to clean drinking water; preserving the environment and the resources essential for life by building today a new circular economy around responsible resource management.

The acquisition of GE Water Process & Technologies is an important step in the Group's history and in the resource revolution, with all its wealth of challenges and opportunities. SUEZ is now a leader in industrial water at a time when the environmental needs of industrial customers are constantly increasing. This opens new horizons for the Group's customers, but also for a wider potential customer base. Building on this new expertise, which covers the whole water value chain, the Group must nevertheless go further in its transformation, which is already well under way. The SUEZ value creation model must continue to evolve towards a balance between infrastructure, services and high added-value products.

The Group must continue to look far into the future. It must also expand its international reach, continuing to develop without forgetting its historical and territorial anchoring in France.

Foresight, a taste for conquest and a bold spirit of initiative must continue to nourish the Group's vision and the future of SUEZ. One such initiative has been to identify the importance of water and now the growing scarcity of resources earlier and more fully than anyone else. Protecting the planet and future generations is our business and our conviction. It is also what drives the company's growing visibility on the international stage and an increasingly important concern for all the Group's customers and stakeholders. Global joined-up thinking is now an unavoidable necessity. This is the spirit in which this Integrated Report presents the performance of the Group in delivering an ambitious strategy that creates value for all its stakeholders.