Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 23) — San Miguel Corporation (SMC) said its businesses have saved around 33.8 billion liters of water from 2017 to 2022 — a 21% reduction in the use of the resource.
On Thursday, SMC said Petron topped the list with the most water savings, accounting for over 17 billion liters saved throughout the six-year period.
According to SMC, Petron’s savings was due to the use of water desalination which enables the safe and sustainable use of seawater for cooling facilities at its refinery in Limay, Bataan.
\”For 2022, Petron was also the top performer, saving 2,082,244,000 liters of water, followed by San Miguel Global Power at 1,500,406,000 liters. Ginebra San Miguel and San Miguel Packaging came in third and fourth with 1,107,000,000 liters and 1,038,094,000 liters, respectively,\” said SMC.
SMC president and CEO Ramon S. Ang said they have always prioritized water issues since much of their operations rely on the resource.
As an example, Ang said that last year SMC collected and used around 473,862,000 liters of rainwater — a significant increase from the 114,368,000 liters saved in 2021
\”We have not let up on our efforts to continuously increase water savings at our facilities across the whole San Miguel Group,” Ang said.
SMC continues to use recycled water for many of its businesses. However, seawater desalination makes up the majority of water reduction.
Since 2020, SMC has also been using its own resources to clean up major river systems in and around Metro Manila.
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