Water conservation is critical to Kimberly-Clark’ssustainability goalsas it works to uplift1 billion livesin underserved communities around the globe in the next decade, and the company aims to reduce itswater footprintby 50 percent in water-stressed regions by 2030. As of 2021, Kimberly-Clark used over 34 percent less water at its facilities in water-stressed areas than it did in 2015.

为了支持金伯利 - 克拉克（Kimberly-Clark）的水足迹目标，该公司在拉丁美洲的两个制造设施大大减少了他们与Kleenex®面部组织一起生产Scott®浴组织和纸巾的水量。

Kimberly-Clark’s facility in Santa Cruz, Bolivia has reduced its water usage by more than 86 percent since 2015. Water savings at this facility are enough to fill more than 86 Olympic-size swimming pools.

同样，自2015年以来，金伯利 - 克拉克（Kimberly-Clark）将其用水量减少了68％，其设施在Sitio delNiño，El Salvador和该设施的水节省足以填补超过500个奥运会大小的游泳池。

“Caring for the planet is part of how we live our values at Kimberly-Clark, and we are pleased that we have achieved meaningful water savings at these manufacturing facilities, among others around the globe,” said Vetrivel Dhagumudi, the company’s global water program leader. “We continue to invest in water-saving measures at our facilities to minimize our environmental impact and deliver our purpose of Better Care for a Better World.”

The Santa Cruz and Sitio del Niño facilities are constantly focused on finding ways to reduce, reuse and recycle water. In order to achieve their notable water savings, the multi-step process began with an extensive audit to identify easy fixes, such as leaks, as well as opportunities to retool individual machines to use less water.

In addition, new short-loop recycling systems with high-quality filtration enabled the plants to reuse more water instead of discharging it. The teams also upgraded the facilities’ own wastewater treatment plants so they could recycle more water back to the facility.

提高员工的水意识也发挥了关键作用。

“The culture has changed because we did a lot of training to make people more ‘water aware,’” said Susana Sierra, the environmental coordinator for Kimberly-Clark’s facility in Sitio del Niño, a region that experienced its first water shortage in history in 2016.

“Now, employees are empowered with water management,” she added. They will immediately report an issue like a dripping faucet, and we find a solution very quickly. Also, we leverage continuous improvement tools like Lean Six Sigma to help conserve this precious resource.”

这一切都为公司的global goalto cut its environmental footprint in half by 2030 in the areas where it can make the biggest difference – water, forests, climate and plastics.

圣克鲁斯工厂环境，健康和安全经理亚历杭德罗·莱辛（Alejandro Lechin）表示：“我们为最大程度地减少环境影响并减少用水量而感到自豪。”“我们将庆祝金伯利 - 克拉克今年成立150周年，我们希望在未来150年及以后继续这种可持续增长的遗产。”