Águas de Portugal

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Águas de Portugal
legal form Corporation
founding 1993
Seat Lisbon , Portugal
management Pedro Eduardo Passos da Cunha Serra
sales 614.8 Mio . EUR (2008)
Branch Water supply
Website http://www.adp.pt/

Águas de Portugal (AdP) is the state water company of Portugal , consisting of a group of several Portuguese service companies (number: 43 in 2010) that work for more than 7 million Portuguese in the three areas of basic sanitation:

The company merged in 1993. In 2008, AdP recorded sales of EUR 614.8 million. Águas de Portugal is a public company in the environmental sector in Portugal . The head office is in Lisbon .

The group and its subsidiaries are active on the international market with the services and technical support it offers in Mozambique , East Timor , Angola and North Africa .

AdP controls EPAL - Empresa de Aguas Livres Portuguesa , the largest company in the water management sector in Portugal, which operates the supply in the municipalities of Lisbon and the surrounding areas.

Political Influences

From 1996 to 2002 the company was headed by Mário Lino . In 2004, Amílcar Theias had to resign as Environment Minister from the Durão Barroso cabinet under pressure from the Prime Minister, as he turned against him when he was appointed to the company's board of directors.

Web links

  • AdP website , English and Portuguese, accessed March 3, 2010

Individual evidence

  1. Company figures ( Memento of 2 June 2010 at the Internet Archive ), on adp.pt called 4 April 2010
  2. AdP worldwide ( Memento from June 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), English, accessed on April 4, 2010