Essar recognises that water is the most precious resource and adopts a series of measures in its plants and offices to ensure its conservation. Over the last few months, it has been running a nationwide campaign exhorting its employees from different locations to save water, report misuse and raise awareness.
Essar businesses go all out to ensure water conservation and reduce wastage at their manufacturing locations. Essar Foundation has also contributed significantly in making clean drinking water, as well as water for irrigation, available to economically weaker sections of the society.
From rain water harvesting to setting up infrastructure to recycle industrial water, the goal at Essar Steel is to work towards zero liquid discharge
The Essar Oil office in Vadinar has long been using waterless urinals
With an aim to make fresh water available in villages for agriculture and drinking, Essar Foundation has led initiatives like pond deepening, repairing of existing dams, creating check dams, nullah plugging, well recharge structures, farm ponds, and creation of percolation tanks, which have effected a 25% increase in the water table.
The Vadinar refinery is a zero discharge facility that treats water for reuse. It extensively engages in rainwater harvesting to recharge groundwater levels
Essar Steel runs water supply schemes to provide safe drinking water to 12,000 households annually
The Essar Power plant in Hazira received two awards conferred by the PHD Chamber of Commerce for its water management initiatives
Essar is also among the largest producers of mangoes, turning acres of barren land near its Vadinar refinery into mango orchards that help preserve the ground water level.
