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ProPetapa, a joint venture project with Dutch Clean Tech, is dedicated to supply clean potable water under long term contracts to EMPAGUA, the Municipal Water Supply Company of Guatemala City, and other major industrial users. It also provides non chlorinated water to industrial Concrete Cement mixing companies.

With Dutch Clean Tech the group is seeking major projects to treat wastewater from densely populated municipalities before it reaches Lake Amatitlán, the most important reservoir of fresh water of Guatemala City. The vision is to then take water from the lake; have it treated and make potable in order to sell it back to the same water utilities. The revenues from water sales would profitably cover the cost of the treatment plants.

Inmiddels ben ik al een aantal jaren een tevreden belegger bij dit bedrijf.

Ten eerste is dit bedrijf bezig in de watervoorzieningsbranche. Hoe mooi is dat niet? Ieder mens heeft toch behoefte aan schoon drinkwater?
Ten tweede biedt dit bedrijf een mooi en solide rendement aan haar beleggers.
Ten derde: de mensen die bij dit bedrijf werken zijn heel benaderbaar. Alle vragen mogen gesteld worden en er wordt heel serieus omgegaan met goede en bruikbare suggesties van anderen. De communicatie vanuit de organisatie is transparant en de lijnen zijn prettig kort.

Kortom: wat mij betreft uitsluitend lof voor dit Dutch Clean Tech.

We have met Dutch Clean Tech both in Guatemala and in Mexico. The Global Gateway strategy, as I have been explaining until now, is a strategy that aims to unite or build a public-private partnership to deliver public policy goals, for example, in water and sanitation, in circular economy, or, as we did in Quintana Roo, on the topic of sargassum.

There will be no collection or valorization of sargassum in Mexico unless there is a value chain. And to create a value chain, we need the private sector. What is the private sector?

Companies like Dutch Clean Tech that work precisely in the field of developing technologies that improve circular economy, and that enable the creation of a sargassum value chain that can even enhance the economy, energy, and more.

Dutch Clean Tech, it is a company that is very special because they not only sell water treatment plant equipment, but they also have a fund within the company to finance these projects and that makes this company very special.

Dutch Clean Tech is a very important company, which already has several projects in Mexico, now already evaluating several investment proposals in the state of Quintana Roo, together with our governor Mara Lezama and the CEO of Dutch Clean Tech, in order to work in the northern area of the state of Quintana Roo, grateful to them and well we are going to continue working to propose solutions regarding environmental issues in the state.

We want companies such as Dutch Clean Tech, or any other Dutch company with the capacity to invest, to commit so that next year we are not here talking about possibilities, but about agreements and concrete actions.

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Climate change is something that requires the energy, the commitment, the will, and the joint effort of both Mexicans and Europeans, and also of companies, both European and Mexican. This week, we had the opportunity to work extensively on the issue of sargassum, a topic that is essential for Mexico, essential for the development of the entire Caribbean region. And in that regard, the key role we expect European companies to play, particularly Dutch Clean Tech, with its vision, responsibility, and innovative capacity that can contribute so much to the development of this country.

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Ruim een jaar geleden begonnen we aan een missie om verandering te brengen met een van de grootste investeringen in private waterdistributie in Guatemala. Dutch Clean Tech was een van de weinige partijen die er vanaf het begin in geloofde: door technische uitwisseling en hun steun als een van onze eerste investeerders kregen we de aandacht van investeerders, klanten en partners. Met Sander Pielkenrood, CEO van Dutch Clean Tech, als een van onze ambassadeurs verbreden we onze doelen richting duurzamere wateroplossingen voor ons land. Met een partner die wereldwijd al meer dan 60 jaar geavanceerde waterzuivering levert, zijn wij ervan overtuigd dat de resultaten snel zichtbaar worden.

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