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With the world population growing and the need for energy rising, water
shortages are developing and threatening economic growth. What now?

Water is not just used to irrigate crops. It is also used to generate

electricity and run industrial processes. Indeed, water and energy are
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inextricably linked as various segments of the economy compete for
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concerted conservation efforts.

Every company has a vested interest in water sustainability, says

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The result? Water demand will outstrip the supply by 40%, adds
McKinsey. Its not just food and beverage companies that are heavily
dependent on water. Its also those companies tied to electricity
generation, mining, high tech and pulp and paper. And many more
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industries could be impacted by such scarcity, it adds, because their
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The fact is that water is critically needed for both energy production and
for the growing of good and EPAs report on the the Importance of
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Water to the U.S. Economy notes that 94% of our economy is based on
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American Waterworks Co., in an interview with the Water Environment
Federation.

As for Coca Cola, water is central to its beverages and manufacturing

processes. In 2003, it told the U.S. Securities Commission that water
quantity and quality were its top concern.

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communities the amount of water it is using to make its products. By the
same year, it was to improve the water efficiencies used in its
manufacturing processes by 25%, from a 2010 baseline.
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saying it had diverted water for its own use, although an investigative
body later said that the company had complied with all laws.
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Similarly, MillerCoors has set 2020 water goals that it expects to save
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its water-to-beer ratio down to 3-to-1. What that means is that it wants to
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In 2015, the company cut its water usage across all breweries by 129
million gallons. It had a water-to-beer ratio of 3.29-to-1.
He adds that of the companys water use, 10% goes into the beverages
and 90% goes into the farming of the crops used to make the beer. To
become more efficient, it is working with the Department of Agriculture to
develop best practices that it shares throughout its supply chain.

We had over a 30% water use reduction between 2015 and 2016 across
farming operations, and that is because barley operations represent 90%
of that footprint, Ugarte said, in a separate Environmental Leader story.
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The figures we will be sharing [publicly] are on the order of billions of
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Saving water saves energy, which in turn lessens CO2 emissions and
mitigates the effects of climate change. And, just as companies are
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focused on limiting their energy use, they are also doing the same with
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pressures on finite resources.

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