Solve Issues Related to Water ResourcesParticipation in Water Resilience Coalition

Participation in WRC

The Company participated in the Water Resilience Coalition (“WRC”) as a Leadership Committee member. The WRC is a new organization established under the CEO Water Mandate, a United Nations Global Compact initiative. It will launch industry-driven initiatives for the preservation of water resources in water-stressed basins all over the world. Through its participation in the WRC, the Kurita Group works with other companies and organizations to preserve and restore the world’s water resources with the aim of achieving the SDGs and realizing its corporate philosophy.
The Company has also participated in the UN Global Compact and has endorsed the CEO Water Mandate.

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*Further information about the WRC is available here:

Medium-Term Targets of the WRC

Medium-Term Targets

The medium-term targets of the WRC are as follows

Target year	Target
By 2030	・Conduct initiatives in more than 100 basins around the world to help improve the water resources of more than 3 billion people in the target basins. ・Have had a positive effect on the water and sanitary conditions of at least 300 million people.

In response to the WRC’s targets, the Kurita Group added the following targets to the priority theme “Solve issues related to water resources” in its CSR Policy in May 2021.

The Kurita Group is launching a campaign for solving issues related to water resources, “Impact Together – Colorado River Basin Project –,” in the Colorado river basin in the U.S.
In this basin, efforts for water conservation are urgently needed because the water shortage has become more severe due to historic droughts.
During this campaign, which is conducted with Avista Technologies, Inc. which is a Group company whose head office is in the Colorado river basin, the Kurita Group contributes to water savings for customers through a superior water savings solution supplied by Avista Technologies, and makes monetary donation based on the estimated water saved by the solution to a water conservation project. This water conservation project is one of the projects supported by the WRC and many companies including Kurita Group.
Through this campaign, the Kurita Group will work on solving issues related to water resources in the Colorado river basin based on two aspects, “Water savings at customers” and “Contribution to a water conservation project”.