liters of water from 2017 to 2022―equivalent to the annual consumption of over 94,000 households, or the monthly use of over 1.129 million families.
San Miguel Corp., through its Luzon Clean Water Development Corp., will make available potable and affordable water from the Angat reservoir to more than 350,000 households in Bulacan by early 2025 as it starts implementation of Stage 3A of the Bulacan Bulk Water Supply Project covering the water districts of Baliwag, Norzagaray, Hagonoy, Pandi, San Ildefonso, San Miguel and San Rafael.
Ang added that through its established Water Council, made up of water and technical experts across its different businesses, programs and innovations in support of water recycling and reuse have now become commonplace at all its installations. The use of recycled water for various processes across the different SMC businesses was, however, significantly higher, topping out at 1,461,065,000 liters in 2022, from 1,089,744,000 liters in 2021.
In 2017, it announced that it was exiting its then-profitable plastic bottled water business to demonstrate its commitment to greater sustainability goals, and help minimize plastic wastes that end up in bodies of water. It then announced its “Water for All” initiative, which mandates a 50 percent reduction in utility water use across all SMC companies by 2025.