Progress to Date

Water Use

Goal

The Clorox Company pledges to reduce our water consumption by 10 percent per case of product sold from 2007 to 2013. This includes water we use in products as well as process water as part of daily manufacturing operations.

Progress to Date

Our global water usage inventory for 2007 and 2008 is listed below:

	2007	2008	2009
Water Use (million gallons)	1,029	960	952

Our water conservation efforts were off to a fast start from 2007 to 2009 due to a number of water recycling infrastructure and equipment upgrade initiatives, as well as changes to some of our water management practices. Most notably, our Kingsford plants in Parsons, West Virginia and Belle, Missouri both reduced their water consumption by more than 40 percent primarily through investments in water recycling infrastructure and replacing water with air compressor systems.

We are committed to building on our recent water conservation progress and have now set our sights on meeting or beating our 10 percent reduction goal.