The
state-of-the-art manufacturing facility of Hero MotoCorp, situated in Gurugram
in Haryana, has been conferred with the CII National Award for Excellence in
Water Management, and rated as the ‘Winner’ in the ‘Within the Fence’
category.
This is a
recognition of the Company’s innovation and excellence in water management and
the positive outcome of the water management initiatives at its Gurugram
facility.
As an organization,Hero MotoCorpis well
on its way to achieving its committed target of being 500% water positive by 2025. Hero MotoCorp – the world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles and
scooters - is currently saving close to 3.8 million kiloliters of water
every year.
The
Company is rapidly moving towards ‘water stewardship’ by not only reducing
water usage and wastage;it is also creating access to water for communities
beyond its premises. At Hero MotoCorp, sustainability is a way of
life, andthis
Award is a recognition of everything that the Company is doing to ensure that
the future generations remain water secure.
The
Company has adopted an approach that reduces,
recycles, recovers and recharges water through measures like replacing RO
filtration with Ultra Filtration (UF),reusing machine RO reject water in
cooling towers, increasing the efficiency of DM and R.O plants, and adopting cascading
rinsing over continuous rinsing among many other water conservative programs.
Additionally,
it is also invested in recycling domestic and process water and built34recharge
shafts within the plant premises. In FY 2022-23, a total of 1,40,612 KLs of water was treated of
which96,139 KLswas recycled
and 4,4473 KLs was reused for
horticulture.