Various initiatives like recycling treated effluent water for gardening, installing reverse osmosis technology at various utilities, collecting and recycling of rain water, arresting major leakage and loss of water at the manufacturing sites led to this reduction. In 2013, of total 38 sites, 33 sites became zero-discharge sites, an addition of 3 sites compared to that of last year. During the year, six more sites implemented rainwater harvesting taking the total to 28 sites. The efforts have resulted in creating a potential of 371,000 kilo litres water per annum.

Rainwater harvesting and use of RO for recycling effluent water has helped your Company’s sites to reduce fresh water abstraction by over 86,000 kilo litres. Your Company’s factories at Amli and Doom Dooma adopted the rainwater harvesting and recycling model followed by the factory in Goa where rainwater on the terrace area of the factory is collected and recycled for use in various processes in the factory.