Water
Our corporate water strategy focuses on measurement of our annual operational water footprint and comprehensive water risk assessments in our direct operations, as well as identifying and implementing opportunities for water efficiency across our facilities and requesting water use data from our suppliers.
Although our most significant water and waste impacts occur in our supply chain, we recognize that we have an opportunity to make a positive contribution by managing the impacts of our own facilities. In our direct operations, most of our day-to-day water use is associated with sanitation, drinking water, food preparation, landscape irrigation and cooling in our closed-system chillers. We work to implement water efficiency measures to reduce our water usage, including installing low-flow fixtures at our offices and using recycled water and drought-tolerant plants in our landscaping where feasible.