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Ford’s Water Strategy
In 2014, we formally adopted a corporate water strategy. This
strategy expands on our previous efforts to reduce water in our
own operations by adding a commitment to address water
impacts beyond our “fence line,” including working with
suppliers and local communities on water issues.
A centerpiece of this strategy is meeting increasingly stringent water-reduction goals for
our own operations. In 2014, we started the process of updating our global manufacturing
water goals – including developing a new water-use-per-vehicle reduction target. This
new target will build on our success in meeting – two years early – our previous water-
use-per-vehicle goal of a 30 percent reduction from 2009 to 2015.
We are reducing our own water use by:
seeking opportunities for continuous improvement using methodologies such as water
assessments,
evaluating and implementing innovative technologies to reduce water use and
increase water recycling in manufacturing operations, where feasible, and
incorporating consideration of water availability and risk in technology
implementation.
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We are also working to improve water impacts for our employees and communities by:
ensuring all employees have access to potable water, sanitation and hygiene in our
workplaces,
working with key local stakeholders in the communities in which we operate, and
meeting local quality standards or Ford global standards for wastewater discharge
(whichever are more stringent).
We know that some of our facilities are located in regions where water supplies are already
scarce. A changing global climate also has the potential to further impact the quality and
availability of water. We cannot be certain that we will always have access to water of the
quantity and quality that our operations require. Therefore, our water strategy prioritizes
our plants located in areas where water is scarce.
Our water strategy aligns with the core elements of the CEO Water Mandate , a private-
public initiative launched by the UN Secretary-General in 2007. Companies that support
the CEO Water Mandate commit to implementing the framework’s six core elements for
water management and pledge to publicly report their progress annually. Ford endorsed
the Water Mandate in 2014.
The graphic below summarizes how our water strategy – or Blue Plan of Action –
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