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Significant water balancing in water-stressed areas2
"HEINEKEN Mexico's
contribution to the
Monterrey Metropolitan
Water Fund helps
improving water
availability and
reducing flood risks."
Wastewater management
Heineken NV.
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Introduction
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Supervisory Board
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- Aim for significant water balancing by our
production units3 in water-scarce and water-
distressed areas.
Our 2018 milestone
- 18 production units in water-scarce and
water-distressed areas have started to
implement action plans for water balancing.
Colin Herron
Freshwater Programme Director,
The Nature Conservancy
For more on water balancing, and our progress in
Mexico, Ethiopia and other markets, see our website
On track
- 13 of the 23 production units in scope have
started to implement water balancing
action plans.
- We kicked off a new partnership with
Conservation International's local NGO in
Indonesia to reforest 20 hectares of land in
the sensitive Cisidane catchment area, and
started two landscape restoration projects
in Spain with NGO partner Commonland.
- The second year of our partnership with
UNIDO saw us co-host two multi-stakeholder
workshops to develop a shared vision
of the most important water issues of
densely populated Java and the collective
efforts needed to address them. It inspired
stakeholders to start a Water Alliance.
Looking ahead
Based on an Assessment by WWF International,
we have identified 13 additional sites where
we will investigate the water risks in 2017.
When these risks are confirmed, we will launch
Water Stewardship Initiatives. Pilot projects will
start in Mexico in 2017 to engage farmers on
sustainable water use and we have more
workshops planned with UNIDO, including
Algeria and South Africa.
Our 2020 commitment
Our progress in 2016
Our 2020 commitment
- All of our wastewater volumes are treated
(by us or by a third party) before being
discharged into surface water.
For more on our water stewardship approach
and progress, see our website
2 This means redressing the balance between the amount
of water we source from the watershed and the amount
that isn't returned because it's used in our products,
and through evaporation.
3 23 production units in Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia,
Mexico, Nigeria, Spain and Tunisia.
Our progress in 2016
On track
- In 2016, a new wastewater treatment plant
became operational in Nizhny Novgorod
(Russia).
- Construction of two other wastewater
treatment plants has begun: one in Freetown
(Sierra Leone) and one in Gisenyi (Rwanda).
We expect these to be operational in the
course of 2017.
- By the end of 2016, we had 13 sites without
a treatment plant; 12 beverage plants and
one malting plant, representing 3.5% of
Heineken N.V. beverage production. For these
sites, we plan to build wastewater treatment
plants to be in operation by 2020.