SUSTAINABLE WATER AND ENERGY USAGE


THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM HIGHLIGHTED THIS WATER-ENERGY


RELATIONSHIP IN MARCH, ARGUING THAT WATER- EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES CAN REDUCE THE ENERGY AND CARBON ASSOCIATED WITH PUMPING, TREATING AND TRANSPORTING WATER


resource use can be incorporated into the same performance framework as other manufacturing KPIs. The company says its environmental


carbon associated with pumping, treating and transporting water. This is changing the conversation


for confectionery manufacturers. Water efficiency is increasingly becoming a question of process design, factory engineering, data and supply- chain resilience rather than simply conservation. Bluerisk’s May 2026 guide, Accelerating Water Action in Agricultural Supply Chains: Practical Steps for Building Supply Chain Water Resilience, sets out a four-stage approach — Assess, Prioritise, Commit and Act — intended to help companies identify water dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities across agricultural supply chains. “Water risks are one of the most


material and least addressed risks in agricultural supply chains,” says Bluerisk founder and CEO Paul Reig. The guide, he adds, is intended to provide companies with a “structured and practical starting point” regardless of their size, maturity or visibility of their supply chains.


Measuring water at priority sites One of the clearest confectionery examples comes from Mondelz International, which reported in April 2026 that it had exceeded


its 2025 target for reducing absolute water use at priority manufacturing sites. The company achieved an 18% reduction


against its 2018 baseline, exceeding its original target of 10%. Its latest data records total incoming water at 10.24 million m, of which 5.73 million m was directed to priority sites. The significance is not simply the


percentage reduction. Mondelz’s approach puts water alongside other operational measures including emissions and food waste, demonstrating how


strategy is intended to support the long-term growth and success of the business, rather than operating as a separate sustainability programme. Its manufacturing operations have also delivered a 45% reduction in COe emissions against the 2018 baseline. “Focus, innovation and impact at


scale have always been at the heart of our sustainability work,” says Christine Montenegro McGrath, SVP, Chief Impact & Sustainability Officer at Mondelz International. For manufacturers, that combination


is instructive. The largest opportunities may not necessarily come from a single water-saving intervention, but from


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