New global community program expands Cummins’
focus on the global water crisis
Today, Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) announced a new global community
program called Cummins Water Works, which addresses the global
water crisis by partnering with leading water experts and investing
and engaging in sustainable, large-scale, high-impact water
projects around the world. This new community program is supported
initially by $8 million in Cummins grants focusing on five of the
most water-stressed countries: Mexico, Brazil, India, South Africa
and the U.S. By 2025, Cummins Water Works will bring fresh water to
20 million people who would not otherwise have access to it, while
striving to produce net water benefits that exceed Cummins’ annual
water use in all Cummins regions by 2030, and in all Cummins
communities by 2050.
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Today, 785 million people – one in nine – lack access to safe
water. And, by 2050, at least one in four people will likely live
in a country affected by chronic or recurring water shortages.
“The water crisis affects so many issues that are important to
us in our communities, including health, education, gender equity,
and economic opportunity,” explained Mary Chandler, Vice President
of Corporate Responsibility and Community Relations at Cummins. “We
are working to address climate change across all aspects of the
company – improving our operations, developing new products and
working closely with our customers and suppliers. In our
communities, we are working to address one of the primary effects
of climate change, namely water stress, through Cummins Water
Works.”
“Addressing a crisis of this magnitude requires collective
action,” said André Villaça Ramalho with the Water Resilience
Coalition, a United Nations-sanctioned working group of which
Cummins is a member. “We are excited that Cummins has joined our
efforts, and we have been impressed by how Cummins consistently
matches words with action when it comes to sustainability.”
Joining the Water Resilience Coalition connects Cummins with
water-related non-profit organizations and more than a dozen major
global companies focused collectively on analyzing, prioritizing,
implementing, and managing high-impact water projects in major
water-stressed regions around the world.
Cummins is launching its new community program through
partnerships with two global nonprofit organizations, The Nature
Conservancy and Water.org. Initial and projected projects include
working with The Nature Conservancy to help plan and engage in
projects in Brazil, the U.S. and India that are primarily focused
upstream on improving, repairing, and strengthening primary water
sources on which communities are dependent. Working with Water.org,
Cummins will help plan and engage in projects in Mexico, Brazil,
and India that are primarily focused downstream, on improving water
cost, quality, and availability in communities.
Cummins Water Works is a critical piece of the company’s ongoing
commitments to sustainability and addressing climate change. For
decades, Cummins employees around the world have worked on water
solutions in their communities like the Monsoon Resilient
Maharashtra project in India to help local communities devise ways
to be less vulnerable to and less reliant on monsoons for their
water and agricultural needs. To date, Cummins water projects have
generated more than four billion gallons in annual water benefits
to communities around the word. And, through PLANET 2050, Cummins’
environmental sustainability strategy, the company has reduced its
own direct water usage by almost 30% and 16 of its sites globally
have been validated as water neutral. Focusing on water
sustainability through Cummins Water Works presents an important
opportunity to make an additional positive environmental impact in
communities.
Facts about water crises from Water.org
A health crisis: Better water, sanitation, and hygiene
could save the lives of 297,000 children under the age of five each
year. Nearly one million people die annually from water,
sanitation, and hygiene-related diseases.
A women’s crisis: Women and girls are disproportionately
affected by the water crisis, as they are often responsible for
collecting water. Women and girls spend 200 million hours every day
collecting water.
A children’s and education crisis: Children responsible
for collecting water for their families cannot reliably attend
school. More generally, one in three schools lack access to basic
water and sanitation, which negatively affects children and their
ability to learn.
An economic crisis: Time spent gathering water or seeking
safe sanitation accounts for billions in lost economic
opportunities. An estimated $260 billion is lost globally each year
due to lack of basic water and sanitation.
About Cummins
Cummins Inc., a global power leader, is a corporation of
complementary business segments that design, manufacture,
distribute and service a broad portfolio of power solutions. The
company’s products range from diesel, natural gas, electric and
hybrid powertrains and powertrain-related components including
filtration, aftertreatment, turbochargers, fuel systems, controls
systems, air handling systems, automated transmissions, electric
power generation systems, batteries, electrified power systems,
hydrogen generation and fuel cell products. Headquartered in
Columbus, Indiana (U.S.), since its founding in 1919, Cummins
employs approximately 57,800 people committed to powering a more
prosperous world through three global corporate responsibility
priorities critical to healthy communities: education, environment
and equality of opportunity. Cummins serves its customers online,
through a network of company-owned and independent distributor
locations, and through thousands of dealer locations worldwide and
earned about $1.8 billion on sales of $19.8 billion in 2020. Learn
more at cummins.com.
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