BAT Nigeria Champions Sustainable Water Stewardship

BAT Nigeria has restated its committedness towards promoting sustainable h2o absorption practices by championing corporate enactment for h2o stewardship.

The Company convened a multi-stakeholder store successful Ibadan to code h2o challenges stakeholders face. The taxable was ‘Collaborating for Sustainable Water Stewardship’. The lawsuit brought unneurotic authorities officials, manufacture peers, and assemblage leaders to sermon strategies for sustainable h2o stewardship, a captious contented for the region.

The planetary h2o situation is simply a pressing issue, and information from cardinal bodies item its severity. The World Bank Group notes that implicit 40 per cent of the planetary colonisation resides successful water-stressed areas, a situation that exposes astir one-quarter of the world’s GDP to risk.

Water request is projected to summation significantly, with a 50 per cent emergence successful cultivation accumulation by 2050 requiring a 15 per cent summation successful h2o withdrawals. Climate alteration exacerbates this concern by making hydrological cycles much unpredictable, starring to predominant floods and droughts.

Speaking, the operations director, BAT West & Central Africa, Hasnain Ishtiaq, said, “This store is simply a testament to our steadfast content that we tin lone marque a existent quality and physique a sustainable aboriginal by moving together, sharing ideas, and committing to corporate action.”

During a elaborate presentation, Dr Adesuyi Adeola, the sustainability operations manager astatine BAT West & Central Africa, highlighted the company’s advancement successful aligning its h2o absorption with the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) Standard.

He noted a affirmative inclination successful h2o conservation, characterised by reduced h2o withdrawal and accrued recycling efforts.

Adeola reported that the company’s wastewater attraction plant, with a 50m³ retention capacity, has successfully recycled implicit 14,000 m³ of h2o successful 2024.

BAT Nigeria reaffirmed its committedness to transparency and data-driven reporting, saying that this committedness was further reinforced with an assurance of continued maturation successful its h2o absorption efforts.

The unfastened dialog league that followed allowed stakeholders to rise concerns astir nationalist h2o infrastructure and sustainability measures. In a cardinal infinitesimal of the session, the manager of Water Resources, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Bode Raji Olugbemiga, confirmed the government’s committedness to gradually repairing the infrastructure and highlighted their information successful the store arsenic a awesome of collaboration with backstage assemblage partners similar BAT Nigeria.

The store brought unneurotic a divers radical of stakeholders, including the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources representatives, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) officials, and the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA). The lawsuit concluded with a telephone for stakeholders to enactment arsenic ‘ambassadors’ for h2o stewardship, reinforcing a shared extremity for a aboriginal with clean, accessible h2o for each communities.