Our Water Stewardship Pledge
We are now 25 times Water positive with specific reference to the water consumption in Cement Plants
Water continues to be the most consumed material on the planet. And with climate and rainfall patterns changing drastically, water availability and access are becoming scarce across the world.
To improve on our water stewardship in a sustainable way, we are leading water conservation and harvesting initiatives. We’re minimising the negative effects on water and, at the same time, enhancing the regeneration of the water cycle. While this helps us steadily move towards achieving water positivity, it also enables us to stay the course on our journey towards becoming carbon-negative by 2040.
Water positive on total water withdrawal
Enhancing Our Water Positivity Efforts
Currently, our combined rainwater harvesting capabilities and integrated watershed management projects (covering manufacturing, mining, and other community initiatives) have enabled us to become 12.6x water positive on our total water withdrawal!
By using dry process cement technology, we continue to minimise water usage at our cement manufacturing units. Which has enabled us to be 25 times Water positive with specific reference to the water consumption in Cement Plants.
Making Sure Every Drop Counts
Our strategy towards achieving water positivity encompasses collaborating with key partners and cover relevant areas of intervention including:
Enabling water conservation in plants, mines and colonies
Creating water harvesting structures within plants, mines and for adjoining local communities
Putting into effect water conservation activities such as drip irrigation among others
Increasing recycled water consumption
Designing the implementation of air-cooled condensers in power plants
By converting used mines into water reservoirs, we are diverting water harvested during monsoon to fulfil the needs of local communities as well as our cement manufacturing purposes.
Water security is one of the key aspects of climate action for our CSR arm, Dalmia Bharat Foundation which focuses on sustainable water conservation practices and localised efforts for rainwater harvesting. We are currently implementing three integrated watershed management projects spanning 10,000+ ha, in partnership with NABARD around Dalmiapuram (Tamil Nadu), Kadapa (Andhra Pradesh) and Belgaum (Karnataka).
Creating a Waterfall Effect
Our water stewardship initiatives have had a cascading effect on the organisation and community, and have added to our efforts of nation-building. Our endeavours are helping us build water resilience at the community, industry and national level.
All our manufacturing units are zero liquid discharge facilities, and we are ensuring that each of our plants eventually becomes water positive and reduces its dependency on freshwater. Rainwater harvesting, moderating water quality and captive power plants with inbuilt water conservation and air-cooled condensers, add to our collective efforts to reduce water consumption across our operations. Today surplus reserves of water exceed the annual water needs of our operations and we are channelising the excess water to communities around our operations, to reduce their water procurement challenges.
We are confident that our focus on sustainable water conservation practices and localised efforts at rainwater harvesting will provide much needed access to clean and affordable energy for a large part of India’s rural population, improve crop productivity and prevent the degradation of natural ecosystems.
What Is RCF?
RCF stands for Roof, Column, and Foundation and is the core structural system of any building, responsible for overall stability and load-bearing capacity. Therefore, RCF Strong. Toh Ghar Strong.
