2009 4.61
2008 4.73
Performance
Our water consumption decreased from 5.47
hectolitres per hectolitre of beer in 2004 to
5.22 hectolitres per hectolitre of beer in 2006,
above our 5.00 hectolitres per hectolitre of beer
target for 2006. The actual reduction is equal
to 53 percent of the targeted reduction.
Water consumption decreased in Bujumbura,
Burundi, and Santiago, Chile. In Novosibirsk,
Russia, and Zoeterwoude, the Netherlands,
we reduced water consumption as a result of
economies of scale (longer production runs
with better efficiency), and TPM improvement
programmes such as the one in Valencia, Spain.
In 2006, 25 breweries failed to comply with the
maximum target of 7 hectolitre per hectolitre
as set out in our Aware of Water programme.
Eight of these are recent acquisitions. More
than 80 percent of the beer and soft drink
production plants are compliant.
2007 5.06
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2006 5.22
This is an improvement compared to last
year, when the total number of non-compliant
breweries was still 33.
Effluent organic load surface water
ktons COD
2006 33.7
2005 23.1
2004 21.2
The effluent load discharged to surface water
increased from 21.2 ktonnes COD in 2004 to
33.7 ktonnes COD in 2006. This increase was the
result of acquisitions in emerging markets and
under-reporting in previous years.
In 2006, the construction of a waste-water
treatment plant in Panama City was commissioned
and a plant in Lagos, Nigeria, will be
commissioned in 2007. Further projects were
launched for Bujumbura, Burundi, for Kigali,
Rwanda, for Kinshasa and Boma, Democratic
Republic of Congo, for Brazzaville, Congo,
and for Craiova and Miercurea Ciuc, Romania.
Specific water consumption: breweries and soft drink plants
hi water/hi beer and soft drink
2005 5.49
2004 5.47*
Target
Actual beer production only
