Our Performance

Water Use

Source

Typically, we use 800,000 cubic meters of mains supply water a year. This includes water used in manufacturing processes, laboratories and toilets.

 

Environmental Perspective

Water is a vital resource and one that is increasingly feeling the pressures of demand nationally, especially in times of drought. Mains water is of a high quality. However, we often need to treat the supply further to meet our processing needs, such as water softening. Ultimately, this places an even higher value on this raw material.

 

Management

We have undertaken a number of audits of water consumption across our sites and have identified and implemented a range of water saving projects. These include maintenance of leaks, replacement of inefficient cooling and chilling systems, and recovery and reuse of one-pass water formerly sent to drain. Water conservation and management remains a key focus area for continual improvement at our major facilities.

 

Performance

Since 1990 we have reduced our average annual usage per person by 72%.