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SMC water savings reach 33.8 billion liters

ON World Water Day, San Miguel Corp. (SMC) reported that its businesses collectively saved some 33,865,901,000 liters of water from 2017 to 2022 — equivalent to the annual consumption of over 94,000 households, or the monthly use of over 1.129 million families.

The water savings, part of the company’s long-running “Water for All” water sustainability initiative, represent a 21.65 percent reduction in the use of scarce water across the larger San Miguel Group.

This includes Petron Corp., San

Miguel Global Power, San Miguel Foods, San Miguel Brewery Inc., Ginebra San Miguel Inc., San Miguel Yamamura Packaging Corp., Northern Cement, SMC Infrastructure and San Miguel Properties Inc.

Petron topped the list with the most water savings, accounting for over 17 billion liters saved throughout the 6-year period, due largely to its use of water desalination technology, which enables the safe and sustainable use of seawater for cooling facilities at its state-of-the-art refinery in Limay, Bataan.

“Water issues have always been a priority for San Miguel, especially since much of our operations and all our communities, depend on access to water. This is why we have not let up on our efforts to continuously increase water savings at our facilities across the whole San Miguel Group,” SMC President and Chief Executive Officer Ramon Ang said.

For 2022, the San Miguel Group collected and used some 473,862,000 liters of rainwater, a significant jump from 114,368,000 liters saved in 2021, Ang said, illustrating some of the progress made in further lessening dependence on scarce water sources.

The use of recycled water for various processes across the different SMC businesses was, however, significantly higher, topping out at 1,461,065,000 liters in 2022, from 1,089,744,000 liters in 2021.

In recent years, SMC has taken a determined, proactive stance to address key issues related to water and the environment.

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