Response to Water Risk

Lack of purified water due to insufficient infrastructure management as well as drought and flood damage due to climate change are becoming serious social problems. Toshiba Group, encompassing many businesses, has businesses with large impacts on water resources among natural capital.* In addition, since our sites are located in various regions around the world, response to "water risks" is an important issue in our environmental management. Therefore, we assess and analyze "water risks" that affect corporate activities and are working to strengthen water risk management.
Toshiba Group also promotes strict implementation of wastewater standards at all production sites to reduce the amount of water received and to prevent water pollution, and contributes to resolving water issues in each region by providing products and services that help reduce water risks.

• Using a tool (ENCORE) to assess companies’ impacts on nature and the extent of their dependencies on nature, the impacts on land, freshwater and ocean use
  change; resource use; climate change; pollution, etc. are assessed for each business area.

Water Risk Assessment Process

Classification of high-risk Sites

Sites Extracted under Priority 1

We have set a target in our Environmental Action Plan to improve the amount of water received per unit of activity in order to promote the efficient use of water resources. In FY2024, the total amount of water received was 18.6 million m³, with the amount of water received per unit of activity improving by 1.6% compared to FY2022. We will continue working to make effective use of water resources by reducing water usage through steam exhaust heat recovery and the introduction of cooling water circulation systems, as well as by reusing wastewater and rainwater within our production sites.

• Click here for the targets and results of the “Eighth Environmental Action Plan”
• Case Studies “Reducing Power Costs by Using Steam Exhaust Heat” (Toshiba Corporation Kashiwazaki Operations)
• Case Studies “Reducing Purity of Water for Outside Air Conditioners and Air Washers for Humidification for Clean Room” (Kaga Toshiba Electronics Corporation)
• Case Studies “Reducing the Volume of Water Used through the Effective Use of Rainwater” (Toshiba JSW Power Systems Pvt., Ltd.)
• Case Studies “Environmentally Conscious Water Recycling Plant” (Nishinihon Kaden Recycle Corporation)

Regarding wastewater, we apply voluntary standards that are stricter than legal requirements, while also adhering to legal regulations, local municipal agreements, and internal regulations. In the unlikely event of a discharge exceeding regulatory limits, our wastewater treatment system diverts the flow to emergency storage tanks to prevent release outside the facility.