Mondelēz 2024 Snacking Made Right Report: Water
Today, a growing number of the world’s most important water systems are under increasing stress. Many of those that support a range of ecosystems, communities and industries, including agriculture, are drying up or becoming polluted through over-use. Climate change is also contributing to the challenge.
HIGHLIGHT
- Approximately (15)% absolute water usage reduction in priority sites (vs. 2018) (3)
STRATEGIC APPROACH
Our business depends on water in multiple ways – from growing and sourcing the raw materials we use to operating our facilities. At every stage, clean water helps us keep our people safe, our supplies secure and our products safe. To promote using it more responsibly, we seek to look beyond our own facilities to help it both irrigate the commodities we use and be available to all in the communities where we operate. To make a positive impact, it is important that we partner on water stewardship with the organizations that contribute to the same watersheds as us.
Read more about our water position on our website.
ACTION PLANS AND PROGRESS
2024 IN REVIEW
Our water management strategy remains focused on delivering against our 2025 goal of reducing our water use at priority sites, located in water-stressed areas.
To that end, we implemented a water efficiency program based on strategies and initiatives led by our priority sites that allowed us
to reduce our absolute water use at priority sites by approximately (15)% in 2024 (vs. 2018).(3)
The main focus areas of this program include:
- Water audits and assessments
- Installation of water-efficient equipment and technology
- Investment in enhanced reuse and recycling systems
- Leak and water-loss prevention
- Employee education
- Data monitoring and reporting on improvements and cost savings
- Benchmarking against industry standards
Mondelēz International plants continue to expand the number of alternative sources for water supply as part of our reuse and recycling systems program of which 11 sites are already harvesting rainwater and 24 of our sites recycle water from the wastewater treatment plant, with this representing approximately 8% of our sites’ total water usage globally in 2024.
- One example of this is our Salinas plant in Mexico that installed a new osmosis equipment to reuse and recycle waste water from the local municipality. With this new addition and in conjunction with the existing water recycling facilities, our Salinas plant has managed to use approximately 100% of recycled water for the factory cooling systems, reducing the annual water consumption by approximately 90,000 m3.
- Our Ikeja site in Nigeria reduced almost 25% of the water consumption by implementing several water efficiency projects such as equipment cleaning optimization, increasing the condensate recovery from about 20% to 80% and a successful campaign engaging and educating employees to detect and repair leaks.
FUTURE OUTLOOK
As we deliver against our 2025 goal, we continue to identify at-risk watersheds through a process that is informed by our global water risk assessment and business priorities for our operations and supply chain.
In the following years, we aim to develop detailed roadmaps and action plans for key basins that involve local stakeholder consultation, to identify and respond to local water risks in watersheds across our end-to-end supply chain. We will also continue to consider future water risks and impacts in our strategic decision making.
GOALS AND METRICS
WATER GOAL
- 10% reduction of absolute water usage in priority sites by 2025 (vs. 2018) (3)
| 2024 PROGRESS | |||
| 2024 | 2023 | 2018 | |
| Total incoming water (m3) (without borrowed and rainwater, as per our current KPI definition) (3) | 10,376,000 | 10,119,000 | 11,410,000 |
| Total incoming water to priority sites (m3) (without borrowed and rainwater, as per our current KPI definition) (3) | 5,778,000 | 5,715,000 | 6,827,000 |
| Absolute water usage reduction in priority sites (vs. 2018) (%) (3) | (15)% | (16)% | — |
View the full 2024 Snacking Made Right Report.
(3) Priority sites are defined as sites that are located in a high or extremely high water risk zone defined as of 2021. In 2024 all sites for the following acquisitions were assessed: Chipita, Clif bar, Give & Go, Gourmet Foods, Ricolino and Tate's Bake Shop except for Evirth (subject to future data integration). These sites were assessed using the Aqueduct tool from World Resources Institute and the priority sites identified were included in this metric. We have recalculated our base year 2018 (where applicable) and most recent years (2023 and 2024) for year-over-year comparison. Reported information is verified by an independent third-party and available in our ESG Reporting & Disclosure Reporting Archive.
