Environment

Lora Gartner
Director of Corporate Responsibility
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The environment is especially important for a water company. How we manage wastewater discharges, how we operate our treatment sites, how we develop advanced technologies and products and how we manage resources - all have a huge potential impact on the local environment. We have a responsibility to minimize that environmental impact and to maximize our use of resources. We strive to reduce the impact of our own operations on the local and wider environment and help our customers and suppliers reduce their own environmental impact.

Carbon Footprint

We maintained our focus this year on reducing energy consumption. In the US for example, we are producing Site Energy Management Plans for our larger plants. To date, we have produced six plans that have all led to reductions in energy use and, in turn, costs. At these sites we have been able to reduce our energy consumption related to the amount of wastewater treated by between 9% and 26%.