Webinar: Water in Mexico – a first step towards a physical delegation
The Confederation of Danish Industry, the Danish Embassy in Mexico, and State of Green invite you to join a webinar with Mexican stakeholders from both private industry and government within water infrastructure. This briefing will lead to a Danish sustainability and water delegation in Q3 2022.
Mexico is a relevant emerging market with 127 m. habitants, primarily living in urban areas in which water and energy services are highly demanded. In the field of water infrastructure, more than 2,500 operating organisms provide drinkable water services, drainage, and sanitation. During this webinar, we will hear from both the water utility of Nuevo Leon and a leading home developer in Mexico.
Agenda
- Welcome by State of Green and Confederation of Danish Industry
- Remark by Embassy of Denmark in Mexico
- Presentation by the director of Nuevo León’s water utility, Agua y Drenaje de Monterrey, for an overview of the plans and potential business opportunities
- Q&A
- Remark by IFU – Investment Fund for Developing Countries
- Presentation by Vinte – a leading home developer in Mexico
- Q&A
- Thank you!
The webinar should be seen as the first step towards a physical delegation to Mexico during 2022 with both IFU, EKF and State of Green as partners.
About Nuevo Leon
With 5.7 m. habitants, Nuevo León hosts 40% of the largest Mexican and global companies in the country, thus the industrial and economic dynamics are high. The state’s contribution to the total Mexican economy represents 8% of the country’s GDP alone.
The state is located in the Northern part of Mexico, an area characterised for less water availability which has gone with the years an area where rains and water are scarce. At the moment, the dams that service the state, altogether represent a 46% availability.
Given this scenario and the high importance of providing water to the population and industrial operations, Nuevo León’s water utility has worked out several plans as to how water scarcity can be avoided and a more efficient operation for the organism and the infrastructure can be ensured:
- Water treatment in third stage solutions (for domestic water reuse)
- Metering systems – for more accurate consumption
- Water loss reductions
- Energy efficiency in the operations
- Improvement on energy efficiencies, including the use of water pumps that can help save energy costs.
- Water treatment and reinjection to rivers
About Vinte
Vinte is a leading homebuilder in Mexico, specialising in affordable, sustainable housing for low- and middle-income families. The company is engaged in all phases of the development process - from acquiring land to designing, planning, building, marketing, and selling houses. Join this seminar and get a chance to network with a major Mexican land developer and homebuilder with a pipeline of more than 25,000 new homes.
The homebuilder already developed 50,000 new homes during the last 18 years in the Mexican states Queretaro, Hidalgo, Quintana Roo, Puebla and Nuevo Leon. With a recent investment from the Danish Sustainable Development Goals Investment Fund, managed by IFU, the Investment Fund for Developing Countries, the intention is to build 25,000 new sustainable homes over the next five years.
Vinte helps addressing the shortage of affordable housing, working with the government of Mexico through programmes designed to enable low-income customers to gain access to housing finance. The intention is to build homes and societies focusing on quality of life, inclusiveness, sustainable living, energy efficiency, water recycling and material footprint, providing answers to an increasing population growth and urbanisation.
Vinte plans to build and certify almost 20,000 EDGE homes by 2030, which will result in annual savings of 80,000 CO2 tons, 7 million m3 of water and 27 million GJ of embedded sustainable materials. Approximately 2,100 of the 20,000 homes are expected to achieve the EDGE Advanced certification (also considered “Zero Carbon ready”).
