We Rise Q&A: Vanessa Lanas Delbridge on Conserving and Restoring Water
As part of our 2030 goals, we are raising the bar for ourselves and evolving our corporate responsibility strategy to increase the scale of our work with others to create a more responsible, inclusive, and sustainable world, enabled by technology and our collective actions. We sat down with Vanessa Lanas Delbridge, Intel’s Water Program Manager, to discuss the importance of water to Intel, conservation and restoration progress, and what’s next.
告诉我们您和您在英特尔的角色。
As Water Stewardship Program Manager with Intel, my role is focused on implementing Intel’s global water strategy to achieve net-positive water use by 2030. I joined our Sustainability team in April 2021, after leading environmental compliance programs at our Ronler Acres campus in Oregon for more than five years, and about 8 years prior to Intel, I focused on environmental conservation for non-profit and consulting organizations. I’m excited to collaborate with our internal teams to achieve Intel’s water conservation goal, and with external organizations to implement water restoration projects. We just publisheda reporton the restoration progress we made in the last year, and it is so cool to see how far we’ve come in just a few years.
您对可持续性和水感兴趣的是什么？金博宝怎么注册
The environment has been my passion from a young age. I remember watching, when I was very young, a documentary about the long journeys that blue whales make to the Galapagos Islands every year to feed and breed. I was very impressed about this adventure – how do they not get lost?! – and that sparked my curiosity.
我已经在水管理领域投入了很大一部分职业生涯。这并不总是计划！在我职业生涯的早期，我遵循了可用的机会和时间，这些不同的项目和工作使我处于有时不大的道路上。我认为自己很幸运，因为那是我找到我的呼唤的方式。水是生命的本质。我喜欢各种形状和形式的水！
Now I try to share this interest with my two-year-old daughter. She is still little, but we are learning to turn off the lights when we leave a room, and to close the faucet while we brush our teeth.
What is the 2030 global impact goal you are focused on?
我关注的2030年全球影响力目标是我们到2030年获得净阳性水的目标。简而言之，这意味着将淡水返回环境的目标比我们的淡水更多。目标有两个部分；（1）在我们的运营中节省了600亿加仑的水，以及（2）资金为恢复水比我们消耗的水还要多的外部水资源项目提供资金。
为什么水对英特尔如此重要？
可靠的供水对于半导体制造至关重要。我们设定了节水目标，因为对于我们来说，了解我们的水足迹至关重要，要负责任，负责任，高效地管理资源 - 毕竟，我们并不是唯一需要在运营的社区中需要水的人；每个人都用水！
For our water restoration goal, we partner with local environmental non-profit organizations to fund projects that restore water to our local watersheds, including projects that conserve, protect, treat or return water that support the ecosystem. For example, we have supported the Arizona Drought Contingency Plan with the Colorado River Indian Tribes, to protect water in the Colorado River Basin. It’s one of16个项目我们已经资助支持亚利桑那州的水资源。
What have you and the water conservation working team been focused on recently to achieve our goals?
英特尔全球水管理小组是来自世界各地的水管理和保护专家团队，他们对节水充满热情。我们已经确定了所有主要英特尔网站的水上冠军，并正在挖掘以寻找新的机会来节省我们的运营水中，并分享成功的项目，以便团队可以在其他位置实施。
What’s a common misconception about water conservation?
我认为一个普遍的误解是，由于地球的表面在很大程度上被水覆盖，因此水是一种几乎无限的资源，因此无需保存它。实际上，我们星球上只有一小部分水可用于消费，甚至一小部分面临挑战，例如污染和对竞争优先级的需求增加，例如饮用水，农业，工业和发电。
我们都应该考虑的大机会是什么？
I am sure this is in a lot of peoples’ minds, but I would appeal to the great power we all have as consumers. A little bit of research can go a long way. Whenever possible, purchase products and services from businesses committed to water conservation in their operations and within their supply chains. Collective consumer effort and accountability are a huge driver for companies to use natural resources efficiently.
如果您可以让人们采取一项行动来节约用水，那会是什么？
I would say go for the big-ticket items! The largest indoor use of household water is flushing the toilet. Replacing toilets, especially older models, with water efficient ones, can save a lot of water.
对于室外空间，景观灌溉占美国普通房屋中住宅用水的很大一部分。考虑使用更少的水密集型景观和耐旱的绿色植物。
Those are two actions, but big challenges call for big commitments.
Learn more about our RISE strategy and Intel’s 2030 goals here。
