Miya

Company

Miya is a world leader efficiency-oriented water operator with vast experience and a full range offering for water utilities including water efficiency, commercial management and water treatment.


Miya provides urban water efficiency solutions designing and implementing solutions that significantly improve the clients' financial and operational efficiency, supplying water and wastewater services in Europe, Caribbean and Africa through various engagement models to more than 1.4 million people.  

Since 2019, Miya is fully owned by Bridgepoint capital, a leading European middle market private equity firm with €28.2 billion of committed funds to date from a world class investor base.

The company led some of the largest and most complicated turn around projects in the field of water efficiency in other public and private utilities worldwide. This prior work in dozens of water utilities and hundreds of projects around the world, utilized: (i) water utility operational excellence and execution experience, (ii) innovation, best of class methodology and cutting edge technologies, (iii) financial modelling that ensures the most cost effective solution and (iv) creative and flexible engagement models to create alignment with the key interests and priorities of all stakeholders. 

Miya is present in Iberia, through its subsidiary Miya Portugal, the leading private player in terms of population served by private operators. In Portugal, Miya operates 6 municipal concessions and has a stake in a municipal water company, serving more than 600,000 people. In addition, we serve more than 600.000 people in Angola through technical services agreements.


Miya is present in Iberia, through its subsidiary Indaqua. Incorporated in 1994, Indaqua is the leading private player operating in the Portuguese water concessions sector, with approximately 30% of market share in terms of population served by private entities.

In Portugal, Indaqua operates 6 municipal concessions and has a stake in a municipal water company, serving more than 600,000 people. In addition, Indaqua serves more than 500.000 people in Angola through technical services agreements.



Values-based approach

Miya is focused on catalyzing positive change in the world through its business activity. Believing that humanity must preserve the abundance of existing fresh water, and manage its resources in a sustainable way, Miya is committed to continue partnering with public and private stakeholders around the world to promote these ideas.







Awards and recognition


Miya has been awarded several prestigious awards for its global water efficiency projects, including IWA Project Innovation Award two years in a row (2013 and 2014), and shortlisted for the prestigious 2014 GWI Performance Initiative of the Year Prize, for our mega-scale projects in the Philippines and the Bahamas. 

Miya also received the 2010 GWI Project of the Year Award,  for our advanced pressure management installation in South Africa, and the 2009 GWI Sustainability Award presented to Miya by former Vice President Al Gore.
In the sphere of concessions, Miya has acquired Portugal’s largest water operator and manages seven utilities through its subsidiary  Indaqua.




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