Sustainability Report 2005 :: ITC Continues to be a Water Positive Corporation

ITC Continues to be a

Water Positive Corporation

For the third successive year, ITC continued to be a ‘Water Positive Corporation’. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) potential generated todate exceeds the total consumption of water by all the units of the Company.

‘Sunderbans’ at ITC Sonar Bangla Sheraton: Almost all the rainwater is collected in water bodies.


Water Balance at ITC	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05

Fresh water intake	24.1	22.48	24.98

Treated effluents discharged	14.64	14.04	19.55

Net water consumption	9.49	8.44	5.43

RWH potential created within ITC units	0.24	0.39	0.34

RWH potential created through watershed projects	12.5	15.67	16.52

Total RWH potential created (todate)	12.74	16.06	16.86


(In million KL)

Water Use – Sources – Strategy – Sustainability

Water use
Fresh water intake by all ITC units in 2004-05 amounted to 24.98 million KL. This included water drawn by the newly acquired paperboards unit at Kovai and the additional hotels resulting from the merger of ITC Hotels with ITC.

Fresh Water Intake by ITC Units (million KL)

Image of graph displaying fresh water intake by ITC units for the year from 1998-99 to 2004-05 On a comparable basis, water usage in 2004-05 was 4% higher than the previous year, primarily due to the 9.4% increase in Paperboards and 15.5% increase in Hotels.

Sources
81.30% (20.3 million KL) of ITC’s total water requirement was drawn from rivers/surface water and 16.8% (4.20 million KL) came from ground water. Only 2% (0.48 million KL) of the total water consumed by ITC units was sourced from municipal bodies.

Water Sources (million KL)

Image of graph displaying water sources

ITC’s water strategy is founded on 4 pillars:
1. Sustainability of water sources
2. Benchmarked specific water consumption (measure of
water required per unit of production) for progressive
reduction
3. Zero ‘waste water’ discharge
4. Creating ‘positive footprint’ through rainwater harvesting

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