Water continued
Performance
Specific water consumption: breweries and soft drink plants hl water/hl beer and soft drink
 Target |
 Actual |
Effluent organic load surface water ktons COD
Our water consumption decreased from 5.47 hectolitres per hectolitre of beer in 2004 to 5.22 hectolitres per hectolitre of beer in 2006, above our 5.00 hectolitres per hectolitre of beer target for 2006. The actual reduction is equal to 53 percent of the targeted reduction.
Water consumption decreased in Bujumbura, Burundi, and Santiago, Chile. In Novosibirsk, Russia, and Zoeterwoude, the Netherlands, we reduced water consumption as a result of economies of scale (longer production runs with better efficiency), and TPM improvement programmes such as the one in Valencia, Spain.
In 2006, 25 breweries failed to comply with the maximum target of 7 hectolitre per hectolitre as set out in our Aware of Water programme. Eight of these are recent acquisitions. More than 80 percent of the beer and soft drink production plants are compliant.
This is an improvement compared to last year, when the total number of non-compliant breweries was still 33.
The effluent load discharged to surface water increased from 21.2 ktonnes COD in 2004 to 33.7 ktonnes COD in 2006. This increase was the result of acquisitions in emerging markets and under-reporting in previous years.
In 2006, the construction of a waste-water treatment plant in Panama City was commissioned and a plant in Lagos, Nigeria, will be commissioned in 2007. Further projects were launched for Bujumbura, Burundi, for Kigali, Rwanda, for Kinshasa and Boma, Democratic Republic of Congo, for Brazzaville, Congo, and for Craiova and Miercurea Ciuc, Romania.
