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Water—Approach
We recognize that the consumption of fresh water from various community, industrial, and agricultural interests is an issue reaching a critical condition in many areas. Alcoa recognized in 2000 the need for a sustainable water management strategy. At that time, we set long-term objectives to reduce our process water requirements.
Reducing the use of fresh water in our operations will make more available to meet the other needs of the communities in which we operate and reduce the volume of wastewater to be discharged or managed under ever-increasing regulatory requirements.
Our goal is a 60% reduction in water use by 2009 and 70% by 2010 from a base year of 2000.
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