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Brazil; Peru; Suriname; France; Colombia; Guyana; Bolivia; Venezuela; Ecuador
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Santa Cruz; Manaus; La Paz
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Countries: United States of America
Regions: California
Project SDGs:
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Water Use Efficiency (SDG 6.4)
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Domestic Wastewater
Progress to Date: NA Number of portable sewage treatment plants
Services Needed: Stakeholder engagement & facilitation
Desired Partner: Other
Language: English
Start & End Dates: Jan. 2015  »  Ongoing
Project Website: s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ungc-production/attachments/cop_2...
Contextual Condition(s): PHYSICAL: Water scarcity or drought
Additional Benefits: Raised awareness of challenges among water users
Beneficiaries: Local communities / domestic users
Planning & Implementation Time: More than 3 years
Financial Resources: Between $100,000 - $500,000 USD
Primary Funding Source: corporate
Project Challenges: RESOURCES: Not enough participants
Project Source: CEO Water Mandate
Profile Completion: 90%

Project Overview

Project Aquapolo is the result of a partnership between SABESP (Basic Sanitation Company of the State of S‹o Paulo) and BRK Ambiental, and aims at transforming treated wastewater into reclaimed water for industrial activities. Its production capacity is 1,000 liters of reclaimed water/second, making it the largest project of its kind in South America and the fifth largest in the world. Between 2014 and 2019, we used close to 45 million m_ of reclaimed water due to the Aquapo…

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Project Aquapolo is the result of a partnership between SABESP (Basic Sanitation Company of the State of S‹o Paulo) and BRK Ambiental, and aims at transforming treated wastewater into reclaimed water for industrial activities. Its production capacity is 1,000 liters of reclaimed water/second, making it the largest project of its kind in South America and the fifth largest in the world. Between 2014 and 2019, we used close to 45 million m_ of reclaimed water due to the Aquapolo Project. A volume equivalent to 18,000 Olympic swimming pools. In BraskemÕs operations in the ABC region in S‹o Paulo, practically 100% of the water is reclaimed. In addition to ensuring operational continuity, the project promoted better water quality, reducing operating costs for maintenance, treatment of liquid effluents and energy.

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Basin and/or Contextual Conditions: PHYSICAL: Water scarcity or drought
Project Benefits: Raised awareness of challenges among water users
Indirect or Direct Beneficiaries: Local communities / domestic users
Months & Implementing: More than 3 years
Financial Resources: Between $100,000 - $500,000 USD
Primary Funding Source: Corporate funding
Challenges: RESOURCES: Not enough participants

Project Narrative

We continue to be focused on improving our water-use efficiency in our manufacturing facilities, with a particular focus on high-water-risk locations. Our 2025 water operations goal is to achieve a 25 percent efficiency improvement in high-water-risk areas. In 2019 PepsiCo had 71 high-water-risk manufacturing locations as defined by our internal water risk assessment process. These locations span five continents and 16 countries and account for more than a quarter of our company-owned production. Eight of our top 15 revenue markets have manufacturing operations in high-water-risk locations. In 2019, we recorded a nine percent efficiency improvement in our water-use efficiency rate at our high-water-risk locations when compared to our 2015 baseline. This improvement builds on the work that we have been focused on for the last decade, in which we improved water-use efficiency per unit of production by 25 percent through 2015, against a baseline of 2006 in our legacy operations.

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Created in August 2002 by the integration of six companies from Odebrecht Group and the Mariani Group, Braskem is currently the largest producer of thermoplastic resins in the Americas and the largest producer of polypropylene in the United States. Its … Learn More

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