Advancing Solutions to Solve Global Water Challenges
Advancing Solutions to Solve Global Water Challenges
At CRH, we recognize that access to water is a basic human right. We are focused on helping our customers and communities to solve complex water challenges. Our innovative solutions create value for all, enabling water resilient communities.
We are scaling our products, services, and solutions to build and upgrade essential water infrastructure. This includes expanding and advancing delivery of our infrastructure solutions for clean water, wastewater treatment, groundwater recharging, stormwater management and flood defenses. We are also innovating and partnering to identify and deploy new technologies for efficient water management and leak detection.
In addition, we are working to conserve, efficiently manage and recycle water at our own operations.
billion litres of water recycled at our locations
% revenue from products with enhanced sustainability attributes, which includes concrete products used in flood defenses and stormwater systems
We are continuing to take action to conserve and use water resources responsibly in our own operations. Our flood management and stormwater solutions are helping to protect vulnerable communities and allow them to adapt to increasingly volatile weather patterns. Our solutions are also providing innovative, reliable infrastructure to assist in effective water management, protect groundwater sources, providing access to clean water resources and treatment of wastewater.
We are innovating and enhancing the range of solutions we offer to support water resiliency. Through our venturing unit, CRH Ventures, in 2023, we launched an accelerator programme for Water Solutions that has enabled us to identify and work with key of innovative technologies that address water challenges.
We are on track to achieve our target:
Find out more about what we are doing on Water:
2023 Sustainability Performance Report
1 Revenue derived from products that incorporate any, or a combination of; recycled materials; are produced using alternative energy and fuel sources; have a lower carbon footprint as compared to those produced using traditional manufacturing processes; and/or are designed to specifically benefit the environment (i.e. water treatment and management systems, products with strong thermal mass/U-values).