In 2020, we announced our first project with our partner Desolenator – the world’s first solar thermal sustainable water purification technology – in a priority river basin shared by our Kolkata brewery.
The installation in the Sundarbans, West Bengal, will convert saline-contaminated water into 20,000 litres of clean water a day using technology powered by 100% renewable energy. Around 4,000 people will benefit in the region, where rising sea levels are contaminating the last remaining freshwater sources.
Construction will be completed in 2022. Our multi-disciplinary partners, including local experts Water Aid and the Sundarban Social Development Centre as well as researchers from Strathclyde University in Scotland, are designing a water distribution model that will generate employment for local women by empowering female micro-entrepreneurs.
Sharing best practice is key to our approach to eliminating water waste across our breweries. The team at our Dazhulin brewery, China, cut water use by 18% in just four months, without significant investment.
In 2020, we put our commitment to safeguard shared water resources into action – bringing clean water at the turn of a tap to almost 20,000 people in Vietnam.
Developing a sustainable tomorrow can only happen together. In 2019 we announced an ambitious project at our Fredericia brewery, the result of public-private partnership with DRIP in Denmark. It will use innovative water recycling technology to reuse 90% of process water, providing learnings for our other wastewater treatments around the world.