Diageo India is among the country’s leading beverage alcohol companies with an outstanding collection of premium brands.
Water is the basis of life and our most precious resource. The increasing concern about the scarcity of freshwater resources across the globe is alarming, thus we are taking measures to replenish more water than we consume by 2026.
We have successfully implemented various water replenishment projects as we move closer to our Society 2030 Goals
Water in operations:
- Since the 2020 base year, the company has achieved a 48% improvement in water use efficiency for distillation and a 31% improvement in packaging.
Water in communities:
- Diageo India has created water replenishment capacity of over 9,000 Cu.M in the reporting year and has replenished more than 1 million cubic meters of water over the past three years across its water-stressed sites.
- As a result of sustained efforts, the company has exceeded its total water replenishment target by 25% and three years ahead of its 2026 goal. The company has worked with government, NGOs, and local stakeholders on projects to improve water quality and availability in priority catchments, de-silted dams to increase water infiltration and provided access to water for many smallholder farming communities.
- Through its water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programme, the company has improved lives by constructing 264 sanitation facilities and providing more than 13,000 litres/hour of clean drinking water capacity in villages across Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, and Rajasthan.
- In addition, the company’s Alwar distillery, home to the Godawan artisanal single malt, achieved the prestigious Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) certification (Core), making it the first distillery in Asia to be certified against this leading standard. The company continues to implement catchment-based water stewardship initiatives through collective action on water.
Further in line with our focus on Water Stewardship, we are collaborating with other stakeholders such as the local community, Panchayat, NGOs, and other private companies present in the catchment to manage water better and lead collective action in critical water basins. We have initiated work on collective action in water across our manufacturing unit in Alwar (Rajasthan). In addition to identifying opportunities for collaboration with other stakeholders, we are working on various water replenishment projects in the catchment of the Ruparel river basin.
As a part of our Society 2030 Goals, our water replenishment projects during the year included reforestation, construction of rainwater harvesting structures, borewell rejuvenation, desilting of ponds, and wetland restoration, among others.
Our water efficiency metrics have been showing an improving trend year-on-year and we are on course to achieve our Society 2030 Goals.
