Water is becoming a challenge for the natural resources industry, globally.
Hindustan Zinc has been turning these concerns into positive outcomes through sustainable initiatives. Our operations are located in the water stressed state of Rajasthan and to sustain our business and the community around, we are going beyond just conserving water. We are in the process of rejuvenating various sources of water.
We follow a holistic approach towards water management. A water policy and a water management standard has been instituted which integrates with decision-making processes for all our new and existing projects, thereby ensuring that necessary measures are in place to minimise the water footprint of our projects.
We deploy a two-pronged strategy towards better water management within our operations - minimising our water footprint and reducing the amount of freshwater we consume by reusing as much water as possible in our processes.
In the reporting period, we conducted water risk assessment at sites enabling us to create comprehensive water balance across the units, which supports improved measuring and reporting on water.
Hindustan Zinc has been reporting to the CDP Water Disclosure programme. Stringent water management policies and standards are in place to optimise consumption, better technologies to reduce demand and free up resources within the same supply of water and maintain zero discharge. We have installed Effluent Treatment Plants with Reverse Osmosis and multiple effective evaporator at smelting locations resulting in reducing freshwater footprints and maintaining zero discharge.
Specific Water Consumption
This year due to commissioning and stabilisation of a new mill in SKM, de-bottlenecking of ZM mill and unplanned operations of a less water efficient roaster, there is a minor increase in our specific water consumption.
IMPROVING WATER ECOSYSTEM THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
REDUCING FRESH WATER
INTAKE AT RAM (Mill)
