Water Management
Water is a critical important resource. We have set target to reduce 10% of our FY2021-baseline water consumption per metric tonnes of production output by 2025.
By referring to Water Risk Filter developed by WWF, our operations in Malaysia are located in low to medium water risk area with overall basin risk of 2.42 (scale of 1 to 5) with higher reputational risk of 3.24 notable. Our plants in Malaysia represents 90% of total production of the Group.
Extracted from WWF’s website
Despite our operations in Malaysia are not located in water-distressed regions, but based on the scenarios of water risk projected by WWF, overall basin risk will increase from 2.42 to 2.78.
The highest risk of 4.99 is notable for cultural importance in Malaysia and is definitely a concern for Malaysia as it reflects relative water use and water stewardship maturity.
Water supply at our production sites is relatively stable, however more disruption of supply incidents was notable in recent years. We do not expect significant cost associated with water-related risk due to we are not water intensive industry, however, it is our commitment to conserve this precious natural resource. We are in the midst of developing a structured water development plan, emphasizing the re-use approach in our daily operation and exploring use of technology, i.e. rainwater harvesting system to reduce water consumption.
We also perform analysis to ensure the quality of discharge water complies with legislative requirements. There is no incidents of non-compliance with water quality/quantity permits, standards and regulations from 2019 to 2021.
Below is the data of our water withdrawal for the past 3 years:
Total water withdrawal data (m³) | 2022 (Jan – July) | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
West Malaysia
| ||||
Surface water from rivers, lakes, natural ponds
| –
| –
| –
| –
|
Ground water from wells, boreholes
| –
| –
| –
| –
|
Used quarry water collected in quarry
| – | – | – | – |
Municipal portable water
| 141,140
| 248,365
| 231,612
| 193,605 |
External waste water
| – | – | – | – |
Harvested rainwater
| – | – | – | – |
Sea water, water extracted from the sea or the ocean
| – | – | – | – |
Total
| 141,140
| 248,365
| 231,612
| 193,605
|
East Malaysia
| ||||
Surface water from rivers, lakes, natural ponds
| – | – | – | – |
Ground water from wells, boreholes
| – | – | – | – |
Used quarry water collected in quarry
| – | – | – | – |
Municipal portable water
| 3,981
| – | – | – |
External waste water
| – | – | – | – |
Harvested rainwater
| – | – | – | – |
Sea water, water extracted from the sea or the ocean
| – | – | – | – |
Total
| 3,981
| – | – | – |
China
| ||||
Surface water from rivers, lakes, natural ponds
| – | – | – | – |
Ground water from wells, boreholes
| – | – | – | – |
Used quarry water collected in quarry
| – | – | – | – |
Municipal portable water
| 9,316
| – | – | – |
External waste water
| – | – | – | – |
Harvested rainwater
| – | – | – | – |
Sea water, water extracted from the sea or the ocean
| – | – | – | – |
Total
| 9,316
|
‘- We compile water withdrawal data for East Malaysia and China from Year 2022 onwards
Below is the of our water consumption data for the past 3 years:
Water Consumption (m³ per MT of output) | 2022 (Jan – July) | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
West Malaysia
| ||||
Plastic Packaging Division
| 1.86
| 1.96
| 1.76
| 1.63
|
Food & Beverage Division
| 3.41
| 5.02
| 4.64
| 2.96
|
East Malaysia
| ||||
Plastic Packaging Division
| 2.44
| – | – | – |
China
| ||||
Plastic Packaging Division
| 0.94
| – | – | – |
Water Quality
We ensure that quality of discharged water complies with legislative requirements. COD (chemical oxygen demand) load/tonne product for our 3 major plastic packaging plants located in Sungai Petani is 0.237g/tonne in 2021. These 3 production plants represent 70% of our group total production output.