Commitment to Water Stewardship

Water continues to be the most consumed material on the planet. And with climate and rainfall patterns changing globally, water availability and access are becoming scarce across the world.

To improve on our water stewardship in a sustainable way, we are leading water conservation and harvesting initiatives. We’re minimising the negative effects, enhancing the regeneration of the water cycle. This helps us steadily remain water positive.

Making Sure Every Drop Counts

Our strategy towards achieving water positivity encompasses collaborating with key partners and cover relevant areas of intervention including:

• Enabling water conservation in plants, mines and colonies

• Creating water harvesting structures within plants, mines and for adjoining local communities

• Putting into effect water conservation activities such as drip irrigation among others

• Increasing recycled water consumption

• Designing the implementation of air-cooled condensers in power plants

By converting used mines into water reservoirs, we are diverting water harvested during monsoon to fulfil the needs of local communities as well as our cement manufacturing plants.

Driving Water Security and Community Impact

Water security is a core focus of Dalmia Bharat Foundation’s climate action efforts. We harvest every raindrop by developing and revitalising check dams, farm ponds, and recharge structures, while promoting micro-irrigation and strengthening Village Watershed Committees for community-led water governance.

Our Integrated Watershed Management Programme, implemented with NABARD, includes three major watershed projects—completed in Dalmiapuram and Kadapa and currently underway in Belgaum, Karnataka—which together will cover more than 10,000 hectares. These landscape-level interventions enhance water availability, soil health, and long-term community resilience

Driving water Positivity: From Zero Liquid Discharge To Community Empowerment

Our water stewardship initiatives have had a cascading effect on the organisation and community, and have added to our efforts of nation-building. Our endeavours are helping us build water resilience at the community, industry and national level.

All our manufacturing units are zero liquid discharge facilities, and we are ensuring that each of our plants eventually becomes water positive and reduces its dependency on freshwater. Rainwater harvesting, moderating water quality and captive power plants with inbuilt water conservation and air-cooled condensers add to our collective efforts to reduce water consumption across our operations.

Today, surplus reserves of water exceed the annual water needs of our operations and we are channelising the excess water to communities around our operations to reduce their water procurement challenges.

Sustaining the Future

We are confident that our focus on sustainable water conservation practices and localised efforts at rainwater harvesting will provide much needed access to clean and affordable energy for a large part of India’s rural population, improve crop productivity and prevent the degradation of natural ecosystems.