Water management in Saint-Martin
Discover the EEASM, one of the Public Establishments of an Industrial and Commercial Character (EPIC) of the Collectivité of Saint-Martin.
Who is responsible for water management in Saint-Martin?
The Saint-Martin Water and Sanitation Establishment (EEASM) assumes all public service missions related to water for the Collectivité :
- monitoring and control of delegation contracts
- examination of files for new installations on the drinking water and sanitation distribution network
- estimation of the costs of works and verification of the economic and financial feasibility of projects
- monitoring of work on the water supply network and the sanitation network
- participation in the diagnosis and evaluation of existing installations
- investment programming
- technical management of non-collective sanitation
- dissemination of information on non-collective sanitation to the population.
The management of public services for the production of drinking water, distribution of drinking water and sanitation has been delegated to SAUR as part of a 10-year delegation contract, concluded in 2018 and expiring in 2028. .
The only resource is seawater, treated by a reverse osmosis filtration plant set up in 2006.