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PRESS RELEASE

15 January 2010

    PATRICK OUART APPOINTED TO SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS

At the Board meeting on 14 January 2010, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT's Directors decided,
upon GDF SUEZ's proposal, to co-opt Patrick Ouart to replace Angel Simon,
AGBAR's Chief Executive Officer. SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT's Annual Shareholders
Meeting, which will take place on May 20th, will be asked to ratify his
appointment.

Patrick Ouart is a member of LVMH's Executive Committee and an advisor to the
LVMH group chairman.

After graduating from Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature, he performed, between
1998 and 2003, various functions within the SUEZ Group, before joining the LVMH
group in 2004. Between 2007 and 2009, Patrick Ouart served as advisor for the
French Presidency.

SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT
Natural resources are not infinite. Each day, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT (Paris: SEV,
Brussels: SEVB) and its subsidiaries deal with the challenge to protect
resources by providing innovative solutions to industries and to millions of
people. SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT supplies drinking water to 76 million people,
provides wastewater treatment services for 44 million people and collects the
waste produced by 51 million people. SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT has 65,400 employees
and, with its presence on a global scale, is the world's leader exclusively
dedicated to environmental services. In 2008, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT, a 35.4% GDF
SUEZ affiliate, achieved sales turnover of 12.4 billion euros.

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