The Syndicat des Eaux et de l'Assainissement Alsace-Moselle (SDEA) is a public cooperative establishment that brings together municipalities, groups of municipalities (unions, communities of municipalities and agglomerations), the Eurometropole of Strasbourg and the Department of Bas-Rhin. It is administered by local elected officials from all three departments in its area of competence and employs 650 people in some one hundred highly technical professions covering the entire water cycle.