Hessenwasser
| Hessenwasser GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 2001 |
| Seat | Groß-Gerau - Dornheim |
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| Number of employees | 366 (2019) |
| sales | € 92 million (2019) |
| Branch | Drinking water supply |
| Website | www.hessenwasser.de |
| Status: 2019 | |
The Hessenwasser GmbH & Co. KG is a water procurement company based in Gross-Gerau . The main task of the company is to provide drinking water for the cities of Frankfurt am Main , Wiesbaden and Darmstadt and around 50 other communities and associations in the Rhine-Main area .
Company description
Hessenwasser was created in 2001 through the merger of the water supply divisions of the three founding partners Mainova from Frankfurt am Main , Südhessische Gas und Wasser - today ENTEGA AG - from Darmstadt and the Riedwerke Groß-Gerau association. The company's task is to procure water for the Rhine-Main conurbation. This includes the extraction, treatment, transport and storage of drinking water as well as quality monitoring. In addition to the water supply systems, the laboratories of the partners were also merged into the new company. In 2004, ESWE Supply brought in the water supply division and the laboratory as the fourth partner. The supply of the end customer as well as the municipal drinking water distribution networks remained with the shareholders.
Regardless of the private sector organization, Hessenwasser is a company owned by the municipality. The city of Frankfurt is involved via Mainova with 36.4 percent, the city of Darmstadt via HEAG Südhessische Energie with 27.3 percent as well as the city of Wiesbaden via ESWE supply and the district of Groß-Gerau with 14 other cities and communities via the Riedwerke Groß- Rough with 18.2 percent each.
In 2005, Hessenwasser took over the management of the Hessisches Ried water association and has since been responsible for the recharge of groundwater and the provision of agricultural irrigation water in the Hessian Ried .
Hessenwasser provides drinking water for around 2.4 million people in the Rhine-Main conurbation. The drinking water levy in 2019 was around 112 million cubic meters. Around 60 percent of the drinking water supply is obtained from our own systems. Hessenwasser currently operates 21 waterworks with 192 wells, springs and tunnels, spread across the entire Rhine-Main region. The remaining 40 percent of the drinking water tax comes from the purchase of upstream suppliers, mainly from the water procurement association Riedgruppe Ost in southern Hessian Ried and from the Upper Hessian supply companies (OVAG) in the Vogelsberg district .
prehistory
The Rhine-Main agglomeration often shows a considerable discrepancy between water demand and locally available water supply. Traditionally, the local district and municipal utilities were also responsible for supplying consumers and industry with drinking water. The supply was and is therefore ensured by a combination of local municipal waterworks and a supra-local network of pipes. From history, however, the system did not develop as a homogeneous entrepreneurial structure - as is often the case with long-distance water supply companies - but consisted of a large number of individual companies that had regulated the water supply relationships that had arisen due to the demand situation in individual contracts.
In the course of the increasing division of the district and municipal utilities into local public transport companies, energy supply, waste and wastewater disposal and the supply of drinking water, as well as the associated (partial) privatization of individual companies, the State of Hesse pushed for a merger of the municipalities Water supplier in the Rhine-Main area. A structural report drawn up in 1999 rated the bundling of water extraction, treatment, transport and storage in connection with groundwater recharge in one company as advantageous. This applies in particular to the central management options, to the bundling of technical expertise and to efficient further development in technical and economic terms.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Hessenwasser: Company profile issue 05/2018 , accessed on June 14, 2019 (PDF).
- ↑ Publications . (PDF file, 96 kB) Hessenwasser,