Water stewardship

Water is a vital shared resource with high social, cultural, spiritual, environmental, and economic value, and access to safe drinking water is an internationally recognised human right.

Water is also a critical input for our operations, where it is primarily used for processing, suppressing dust and managing tailings, as well as for sanitation and catering for our people.

Our approach

In many of the areas where we operate, water is scarce and in other regions, in excess, each with their own challenges and opportunities. Our approach to water stewardship aims to work towards sustainably managing water resources within our operations and contributing to addressing the shared water challenges in the catchments where we operate.

Key aspects of our approach include:

Undertaking water monitoring programs and water risk and opportunity screening assessments at our operations and projects;
Developing controls to reduce material water-risks;
Integrating identified material water-related risks into our risk management system and assessing water-related risks as part of our business planning processes;
Establishing contextual and water efficiency targets to drive improved performance; and
Reporting water-related data in accordance with regulatory requirements and established industry water accounting frameworks and practices.

Learn more about Our Approach to Water Stewardship at the link below.

Our Approach to Water Stewardship

Unearthing beneficial uses of excess groundwater at the Hermosa project

We recognise the value of working with experts to help achieve our sustainability commitment across our operations and projects.

At the Hermosa project, safe and sustainable underground exploration will require moving groundwater away from the orebodies.

This will be accomplished by pumping groundwater away from the orebodies and returning it to the neighboring environment after treating it to the highest applicable water quality standards.

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Water stewardship

Water is a vital shared resource with high social, cultural, spiritual, environmental, and economic value, and access to safe drinking water is an internationally recognised human right.

Our approach

Read more about our progress and performance in our 2024 Sustainable Development Report and 2024 Sustainability Databook.

Unearthing beneficial uses of excess groundwater at the Hermosa project

Unearthing beneficial uses of excess groundwater at the Hermosa project

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