Cummins to Cut Its Global Water Use in Half by 2020
March 21 2017 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
Improvements reached at global
facilities
Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) today announced it has increased its
facility water goal to a 50 percent intensity reduction by 2020
from a baseline of 2010. It makes the announcement ahead of World
Water Day, which is celebrated on March 22.
Cummins released its water conservation goal in 2014 as part of
its 2020 Environmental Sustainability Plan, pledging to reduce
water use intensity by 33 percent, adjusted by labor hours. As
of the third quarter of 2016, the company's water efficiency
efforts had resulted in a 42 percent intensity reduction or 18
percent on an absolute basis. Because the Company achieved the
initial goal ahead of schedule, it revised its goal to be more
aggressive.
The revised 50 percent intensity reduction goal represents a
total water savings of 763 million gallons of water since 2010.
That is equivalent to the water needed for drinking, sanitation and
hygiene for 395,000 people for a year.
With facilities located around the globe from India to Indiana,
the Company has installed low-flow fixtures and efficient
equipment, bioswales and regenerative dynos, low water use
landscaping, stopped water leaks, and otherwise worked toward
efficient processes in its facilities.
“Thanks to the hard work of our employees around the world, we
have surpassed our initial target, but we know we should do more
and are raising the bar with a revised goal, “ said Brian Mormino,
Executive Director of Environmental Strategy & Compliance.
The United Nations (UN) estimates that by 2025, 1.8 billion
people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water
scarcity and two-thirds of the world population could be under
water-stressed conditions. Projections show that by 2040 all of the
United States will be considered highly water stressed.
“Businesses can’t operate, and people can’t live, without
water,” said Mormino. “We have a responsibility to come together in
collective action, and Cummins is committed to being part of the
solution.”
The company’s comprehensive water strategy addresses both direct
water use and community engagement. Cummins has the opportunity
through its more aggressive revised goal to amplify water
efficiency efforts, which is important for several reasons: to
mitigate business risk; to be a good global citizen and to reduce
costs and compliance risk. In its water management program, the
company uses innovative assessment tools such as the Ceres Aqua
Gauge (one of the first companies to use this framework), a global
water risk screen and the “true cost” of water assessment that
identifies water costs embedded in activities such as pumping,
electricity and chemical use.
To achieve the 50 percent reduction, Cummins will expand the
work it does with its sites in water program management, including
intensive engagement with higher water use locations, water balance
creation and sub-metering. The company also has plans for high
impact and showcase projects, such as an alternative bio-tech
system for producing high quality treated wastewater for process
reuse at one of its engine plants.
Cummins uses regenerative dynamometers (dynos) throughout the
company to capture the mechanical energy of engines in test cells.
The dynos also reduce cooling load, which allows cooling systems to
be smaller and use less water.
Many Cummins buildings have specific features designed to
conserve water. The bioswales at the new Distribution Business Unit
headquarters in Indianapolis, for example, are part of a system
designed to keep about 80 percent of rainwater on the site to use
for landscaping. The bioswales collect and save water that would
otherwise run into the city’s sewer system. There are plants in
India and Brazil that recycle water for non-potable uses and
several locations have features like low or no-water toilet
facilities to help meet their water-use goals.
Cummins also has a water neutrality goal that embodies the
company’s aspiration to work together with its communities to
ensure that everyone has adequate, safe, and sustainable water
supplies. By 2020, Cummins plans achieve water neutrality (offset
the water it uses) at 15 facilities in water-stressed communities.
This goal is aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 for
Clean Water and Sanitation.
About World Water Day
In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly designated March 22
as the first World Water Day. The day serves as a way to have
global education and preparedness for future water management and
call to action for members of the global population who suffer from
water related issues.
About Cummins
Cummins Inc., a global power leader, is a corporation of
complementary business units that design, manufacture, distribute
and service diesel and natural gas engines and related
technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling,
filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation
systems. Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana, (USA) Cummins
currently employs approximately 55,400 people worldwide and serves
customers in approximately 190 countries and territories through a
network of approximately 600 company-owned and independent
distributor locations and approximately 7,400 dealer locations.
Cummins earned $1.39 billion on sales of $17.5 billion in 2016.
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