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Likewise, EXL has limited scope of
opportunity for waste water management.
Waste water management is mainly done by
the common facility management agencies of
the rented facilities. However, in EXL owned
facilities, waste water management is done
by EXL only. The steps followed by EXL for
waste water management are as follows:
1. Treatment of waste water,
2. Testing of treated water before discharge.
As an environmentally responsible
organization, EXL promotes and organize
‘Save Water’ campaign within its organization
boundary for all its employees and plans
promote the ‘Save Water’ campaign within
the it’s office buildings as well.
In some of the locations, we are
experimenting with sensor-based
water coolers. We have installed
water coolers that ensure touchless
water dispensing.
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for Risk Aversion
Total Water Withdrawal by Source Majority of our offices are in metropolitan
locations and in multi-tenant buildings,
Parameter Units 2018 2019 2020 2021 wherein we have installed the best
Municipal water kl 154,546 163,315 64,878 36,330 sustainable solutions available in the
Total water kl 154,546 163,315 64,878 36,330 market. One of the most efficient ways
withdrawal being, deployment of technologies that limit
by source
the use of water quantity. We have installed
* Reporting boundary for water withdrawal in this table is only for our operations in India automatic water shutoff sensors at most of
and the Philippines. our geographic locations. In some of the
As of now, in other Geographies we do not have options to measure our raw water locations, we are experimenting with
consumption. However, we are working on feasible alternatives in order to report our raw
water consumption in future reporting years for all our operations. sensor-based water coolers. We have
installed water coolers that ensure
Initiatives to Reduce Water Wastage touchless water dispensing. Equipped with
robust motion sensors, these water coolers
COVID-19 Outbreak, encouraged us to adopt a provide chilled water automatically on
remote working model with 90-95 percent of our placing a cup beneath the faucet. The
employees working from home globally. While our touchless operation minimises the risk of
distribution centres were in hibernation mode water loss and is a sustainable solution for
(where appropriate), which gave us an corporate offices such as ours with high
opportunity to reduce water usage at our water consumption. This initiative alone
facilities. Most of our water usage at our office has helped us to save water which
premises is for residential water use. We derive otherwise is wasted.
our overall freshwater use is from municipal
water sources or purchased from commercial Sensors
providers. As an IT/ITeS organisation, we are not
a water-intensive organisation. Hence, we do not
acquire ground water at any of our businesses
and none of our operations have any influence on
water conservation zones designated and
reported to us by national or international
agencies.