Federation House Commitment to Water Efficiency

FDF members are committed to making significant reductions in water use to help reduce stress on the nation's water supplies.

Introduction

FDF and Envirowise recognise that the nation's water resources are increasingly coming under stress. This can adversely affect security of supply, local wildlife habitats and water quality. Tackling water stress is therefore an environmental priority.

The food and drink industry is a significant water user. As such, FDF and Envirowise are extremely pleased to be working together to promote water efficiency best practice across the sector as a whole. Importantly, this partnership has led to the successful development of the 'Federation House Commitment', a strategically significant framework for encouraging progress.

It will help FDF members to achieve their collective goal of making significant reductions in water use by 2020. This aim was announced as part of FDF's Five-fold Environmental Ambition (pdf, 1.4mb) in October 2007.

In addition, the Federation House Commitment is being opened up beyond FDF's membership. All companies in the food and drink manufacturing sector are free to sign up to it. It will therefore also be a key medium for the achievement of the industry-wide target in the Food Industry Sustainability Strategy to reduce its water use, outside of that embedded in products themselves, by 20% by 2020 compared to 2007.

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