Water and biodiversity
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Our vision: To be acknowledged as a business that values water as a vital natural resource and recognises the impact of its extraction sites on the local environment both during and after use.
Objectives: Ensure sustainable use of land, maximising the benefits for biodiversity and ecosystem services and minimising impacts on the availability of water in the natural environment.
Action plan: Embed the water hierarchy of ‘reduce, reuse, recover, abstract’ before using mains water; improve metering leading to better identify and repair leaks; roll out the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) water monitoring and reporting system. Establish, publish and monitor biodiversity action plans for all quarries.
2020 targets: Reduce mains water consumption by 25 per cent per tonne of product. All quarries to implement published biodiversity action plans.
