Hero MotoCorp’s manufacturing facility in Gurugram, Haryana, has won the CII National Award for Excellence in Water Management, and was rated as the ‘Winner’ in the ‘Within the Fence’ category. This is a recognition of its innovation and excellence in water management and the positive outcome of the water management initiatives at its Gurugram facility, the company said.
As an organization, Hero MotoCorp is well on its way to achieving its committed target of being 500% water positive by 2025. Hero MotoCorp – the world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters – is currently saving close to 3.8 million kilolitres of water every year, the company said in a media release.
The Company said that it is rapidly moving towards ‘water stewardship’ by not only reducing water usage and wastage; it is also creating access to water for communities beyond its premises. At Hero MotoCorp, sustainability is a way of life, and this Award is a recognition of everything that the Company is doing to ensure that the future generations remain water secure.
The Company has adopted an approach that reduces, recycles, recovers and recharges water through measures like replacing RO filtration with Ultra Filtration (UF), reusing machine RO reject water in cooling towers, increasing the efficiency of DM and R.O plants, and adopting cascading rinsing over continuous rinsing among many other water conservative programs.
In FY 2022-23, a total of 1,40,612 KLs of water was treated of which 96,139 KLs was recycled and 4,4473 KLs were reused for horticulture.
