1. Ensuring a Secure Future Through
Water Stewardship
Kim Marotta
Vice President Corporate Responsibility
October 2011

2. Global Crisis on Water
Not only affecting communities and governments
Private sector has an enormous stake in helping
UN Global Compact

3. Water Availability
Domestic
.5% Water
7%
Industry
23%
Agriculture
70%
Source: WBCSD

4. Water is a Material Issue For Business
Two most critical and
potentially material issues
from a financial perspective:
• Water scarcity in agriculture
• Water scarcity for production

5. “Changes in the
availability or
quality of
water…can
have material
effects on
companies”

6. Shared Responsibility
In order to achieve real
change, we must collaborate

7. • Direct operations efficiency
• Supply Chain and Watershed Management
• Collective Action
• Public Policy Dialogue
• Community Engagement
• Transparency

8. Ensuring a Secure Future through Water Stewardship
We are committed to:
• Water efficiency
• Waste water management
• Water supply assessment
• Water footprinting
• Community investment

9. Water Efficiency
4.2
4
3.8
2015 Goal
3.6
Reduce water
3.4 usage by 15% to
achieve a 3.5:1.0
3.2
water-to-beer
3 ratio
2008 2009 2010 2015
Our Fort Worth Brewery is the most water
efficient, with a water-to-beer ratio of
3.42 to 1.

10. Wastewater Quality &
Management
• Anaerobic digestors turn wastewater
into renewable energy at California
and Texas breweries
• North Carolina, Ohio and Georgia
breweries use aerobic wastewater
treatment facilities and effluent is
recycled and land-applied
• Virginia brewery installed $10 M
membrane bioreactor that removes
phosphorous and nitrogen

11. Watershed Risk Assessment Study
Milwaukee
Golden
ID
Trenton
Shenandoah
Irwindale
Eden
Fort Worth Albany

12. MillerCoors Fort Worth Brewery
Involved with local partners
Water As A Crop™

13. • Soil erosion significant
problem because of the
velocity that water moves
across the landscape.
• Pilot- Hold water on the land
longer, improving water
infiltration of the
soil, reducing runoff and
improving economic viability
of farms..

14. Water Footprinting: Value Chain
Crop Cultivation Crop Processing Brewing Distribution Consumer
Energy Transport Energy Transport Disposal
Fertiliser/ Energy Transport Recycling
pesticide
Crop Imports Packaging
Crop Growth
(rain fed/ Direct Water Raw Materials
irrigated) Use
Waste
Direct Water
Use

15. Water Footprint
90%

16. Water Supply Chain
Risk Assessment
Pilot Study
in the Snake River
Valley in Idaho

17. • Visibility into agricultural
supply chain risks
• Focus efforts to help
suppliers preserve water
resources
• Prioritize needs to develop
alternative sources of
barley supply
• Identify the more secure
growing areas within the
region

18. The Nature Conservancy

19. Phase I - Data Analysis and
Public Input
• Ground and surface water
and model
• High temps, decrease
flows, increase
sediment, invasive species
• Measure restoration activities
• Watershed enhancement
plan- 20 years (prioritize)
• Eight public meetings
• Purchase easements

20. Phase I – Water Conservation
Projects
• Increase set backs from
water bodies
• Repair riparian buffers
• Water Conservation Toolbox:
• Variable rate irrigation
• Change nozzles for more efficient
sprays
• Soil moisture monitoring

21. Partnership with The Nature Conservancy
and our Barley Farmers

22. Phase II:
• Expand ground and surface
water model
• “Landscape Atlas” for
navigating conservation
projects
• Idaho Energy Savings
Program
• “Showcase” Barley Farm

23. Showcase Barley Farm
Water Saving Implements:
• Sprinkler package
• Smart panel
• End gun shut off
9 full pivots
8,784,200 gallons/day

24. Estimated water
reduction of 35%
600,000,000
gallons of water
saved

25. Great Water Month
Employees Leading the Way