Our Taste & Wellbeing production site at Makó in Hungary needs a lot of water for the cleaning of equipment. The need to reduce this use came into sharper focus with the arrival in 2021 of new production processes that required the consumption of even more water. The site’s roadmap had for some years included a water saving goal as a sustainability target. But to help manage and stabilise the increased water demand, a site team launched a focussed programme in 2020 with several targeted projects – small and large in scale – to improve water use efficiency and reduce consumption. The results have been significant. The site’s daily water consumption in December 2020 had come down from an average of 834 m³ to 720 m³, and specific volume had been reduced from 8.59 m³/tonne to 6.64 m³/tonne. Improving water management in Hungary By the end of the third quarter 2021, this water consumption translated to an estimated 6.2 m³/tonne, a further 6.6% reduction in specific water volume compared to 6.6 m³/tonne in 2020. – to continuously improve water efficiency on all other sites, – me eting or exceeding regulatory and industry standards by 2030 for a full 100% of our waste water discharge. In our supply chain and our communities, our goals are to – im prove and protect water quality and quantity in our priority natural supply chains, – im prove access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in vulnerable communities where we source and operate. These latter goals contribute towards achieving the Communities goals of our purpose. As water becomes more scarce, particularly in stressed areas, we will monitor progress against these water stewardship goals while continuing to take focussed actions to reduce our use of water and increase efficiencies in our approaches to water management. Contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Givaudan – 2021 Integrated Annual Report Acting as a force for good Nat ure Ou r commitment to water stewardship 83 Acting as a force for good