Investor Presentaiton
54 Cargill 2020 Annual Report
Water resources
GRI 103-2, 103-3 | 303, 303-1
Total volume of impounded water in all areas and areas with water stress, per source (ML) GRI 303-3
Source
2018
All areas
2019
All areas
2020
All areas
Access to potable water is essential for people and agriculture.
We believe in our leadership role when working with our value
chain to develop and leverage agricultural solutions that protect
and encourage the sustainable use of water resources. In various
regions of the world, the low availability of water and of quality
water threaten local agriculture and communities. We believe that
Cargill has a fundamental role along our entire chain to accelerate
agricultural solutions and improve water resources.
Therefore, in 2020, Cargill launched its new global strategy
for water which deals with the topic in an integrated fashion,
considering both our operations as well as external factors.
Besides the work already developed by eco-efficiency, water
stress in water basins has become a key variable, as well as
access to potable water and the impact in regions in which we
are present. We are committed to develop sustainable water
development in our operations, with goals intended to achieve,
until 2030:
• Restore 600 billion liters of water to priority water basins;
Surface water
Fresh Water
(<1000 mg/l of Total Dissolved Solids)
Underground water
Fresh Water
(<1000 mg/l of Total Dissolved Solids)
Third-party water
Fresh Water
(<1000 mg/l of Total Dissolved Solids)
Total
848,607.12
836,292.76
785,996.08
424,739.90
334,233.11
373,215.92
2372.00
1884.00
1636.00
1,275,719.02
1,172,409.87
1,160,848.00
* We use the OSHA definitions and legal requirements of the country to define reportable accidents.
.
Reduce 5 million kilograms of pollutants in priority
water basins;
Total volume of water consumed in all areas (ML)1 GRI 303-5
Source
2018
1,052,815.02
2019
905,642.87
2020
819,289.00
• Implement our water management program in 81 priority
facilities, four of which are in Brazil;
•
Expand access to potable water in 25 priority water basins.
The priority units were identified by means of an analysis that
considered the water stress of water basins in all Cargill opera-
tions compared to the water volume used. GRI 303-2
*Measurements are done by means of flow meters installed at the impound location and all information is stored in the PIMS (Plant
Information Management Systems) system by the Environment and Sustainability area.
Besides the good water resource management practices,
Cargill follows the local legislation of where its operations are
installed to ensure that effluent discharge is done in an ade-
quate and legal manner. For this, we rely on effluent treat-
ment plants at our sites, which treat and monitor the quality
of the discharged effluent. GRI 103-2, 103-3 | 306
Total volume of discharged water
planned and unplanned GRI 303-4, 306-1
Total generated effluents (m³)
2018
220,560
2019
2020
264,422
336,383
1The adopted guidelines are Cetesb directives, according to the tech-
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