Mars, Incorporated is accelerating its movements to mitigate its effect on water availability in watersheds under pressure, with a new commitment to achieve water balance at five production sites in Mexico facing the highest demand for water stress through 2025.
By depleting the water balance, the organization will ensure that every liter of water used at a site corresponds to the remedy and reuse of wastewater, and by engaging in collaborative water projects that decrease water stress by making more water in the basin.
More than 2 billion more people are living lately in water-stressed countries, and experts predict the disease will affect more than a portion of the world’s population by 2050 if no action is taken now.
Recognizing the critical need for rapid action, Mars has learned of five sites in Mexico that have the utmost need for urgent action to address non-unusual water challenges.
These production operations are for the creation of products for national brands such as Pedigree, Whiskas, Snickers and M
Grant Reid, chief executive of Mars, said: “Around the world, water availability is at a critical point and is exacerbated by the effects of climate change. It is transparent that we all have a critical role to play in mitigating our effect on water supply, and in protecting the suitability of global communities. “
“At Mars, this includes running to eliminate unsustainable water use in our price chain and taking steps to ensure we mitigate the effect of our operations in water-stressed regions. Collaboration will be imperative and we will work with local partners and communities. to achieve a significant effect,” Reid added.
Mars will also introduce complex water control systems for water efficiency, by achieving water circularity by ensuring that treated wastewater is discharged in a way that reduces strain on watersheds, and paints collaboratively to balance wastewater use through projects that address water stress in watersheds. watershed of the site.
The company plans to expand those systems to six more production sites in Asia and Africa in the near future.
Moreover, Mars has joined the Water Resilience Coalition (WRC) of the CEO of the United Nations Global Compact, The Water Resilience Coalition (WRC), along with more than 30 corporations to advance the fight against the water crisis.
The coalition aims to increase investment in cutting-edge responses to the water and climate crisis and inspire collective action to build water resilience in water-stressed regions.
This builds on Mars’ existing paintings with the CEO Water Mandate since 2015 to advance progress on SDG6 (Clean Water).
From its club in the Water Resilience Coalition, Mars will join with other corporations from the Charco Bendito water control program in central Mexico, which will repair land along waterways critical to water regeneration through leveraging collaborative action through corporations. the corporation added.
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