Water
Our Goals
Achieve an average water use efficiency ratio of 2.0hl/hl across our breweries globally.
Return more water than we withdraw in each of our priority high-risk watersheds.
Our Approach
Water is vital to our business, and it sustains our communities and natural ecosystems. As the world’s leading brewer, we are focused on finding solutions to water challenges in our operations and across our supply chain. By addressing these challenges, we can help improve water availability and quality for the broader watershed and our business. Further, by aiming to restore more water than we withdraw in each of our high-risk watersheds, we can help to enable local economies and livelihoods, increase biodiversity in critical ecosystems, and empower effective collective action that helps reduce water insecurity for millions of people.
DRIVING EFFICIENCY IN OUR OPERATIONS
Through our continuous improvement mindset and adherence to operational excellence, improvements in water reuse, and adoption of new technologies—such as AI-enabled water-monitoring installations—we aim to improve water efficiency across our breweries. We also work to improve water quality through effluent treatment, cleaning the water used in our operations and returning it to municipalities or communities.
RESTORING HIGH-STRESS WATERSHEDS
We work collaboratively with local communities, NGOs and public-private coalitions to deploy a range of interventions—including nature-based solutions and working with local municipalities to reduce water infrastructure losses—in critical basins with an aim to return more water than we withdraw.
