Water Resources

Policy
Toyota Tsusho Group Water Usage Initiatives
External Collaboration
Performance Data

Policy

In conjunction with climate change, deforestation, population increases, and other issues, the problems of water shortages, deterioration of water quality, and flooding, which are worsening on a global scale, are environmental risks that could severely impact our business activities. With an understanding that the sustainable use of water resources is a key issue, we have made water an explicit part of the Toyota Tsusho Group's Environmental Policy and we are actively working to reduce water consumption and reuse water.

To this end, we have formulated a water management plan within our ISO 14001 environmental management system. We have also set targets for one Group companies with high water burdens and are working to reduce those burdens.
The one out of 569 Group companies that have formulated water management plans account for 0.2% of the total.

Toyota Tsusho Group Water Usage Initiatives

The Toyota Tsusho Group is cognizant that the sustainable use of water resources is a crucial issue and expressly indicates this in its Group environmental policies. The Group is working to raise use efficiency and reduce usage by optimizing usage and implementing comprehensive re-use. We are working to reduce water consumption by reusing rain water in the washrooms at our Nagoya Head Office.

We evaluated water risks in countries where we operate using the WRI Aqueduct water risk assessment tool and identified regions in India and other countries at risk of severe water shortages, flooding, and so on (water-stressed regions). We conduct business in these regions with an understanding of the risks. To address the water released by business sites in Japan, we periodically maintain and manage water treatment facilities and conduct thorough management and monitoring of the concentrations of contaminants in waste water in accordance with voluntary standards.

The Group has no facilities, assets, production, or revenue in water stressed regions of Japan. In addition, we are not in violation of any national or regional licensing standards or restrictions concerning water quality or usage (including legal violations).

Collaboration with outside company operating at Business Sites in Water-Stressed Regions

Our affiliate, Toyotsu Bharat Integrated Services Pvt. Ltd. (South), operates a technopark business in India. The park provides an optimized business environment for companies entering emerging markets for the first time, enabling them to focus on their core production activities. Specifically, by offering essential corporate functions such as general affairs and accounting, along with domestic wastewater treatment services, we help manufacturing companies establish operations in India more smoothly and support their business expansion.

In this technopark, we are promoting activities to reduce water risks in collaboration with external parties.We work with nearby transportation equipment factories, connecting their pipelines to collect domestic wastewater from each factory.We then centralize the purification process using our own wastewater treatment facilities, achieving efficient water management.

In addition, the treated water after purification is redistributed to each company and reused for gardening and daily activities.Through this collaboration with external parties, we are working to reduce water usage and have put in place a system that prevents wastewater from being discharged outside the site in order to protect environment of surrounding residents.

External Collaboration

CDP (Water Security)

Since 2017, we have been responding to the CDP water security questionnaire, a global information disclosure program on corporate water risks.

Performance Data

Water Withdrawal

(1,000m³)
	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	FY2024
Water Withdrawal (Domestic Offices)	2,217	1,796	1,780	1,856	2,129	2,025	1,828
Water Withdrawal (Overseas Offices)	9,575	9,370	8,509	9,508	9,874	9,026	8,878
Water Withdrawal (Total)	11,792	11,166	10,289	11,364	12,003	11,051^*	10,707^*

Scope of Aggregation: Toyota Tsusho Corporation (head offices, branches, sales offices, field offices) and domestic consolidated subsidiaries
Scope of Aggregation: Overseas consolidated subsidiaries

Toyota Tsusho Office Water Intake and Discharge Volumes

(1,000m³)
	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	FY2024
Withdrawal water volume	ー	32	28	35	41	53	56
Discharge water volume	ー	32	28	35	41	52	55

Scope of Aggregation: Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Nagoya Head Office, Tokyo Head Office, Osaka Branch, Toyota Branch)
* For this scope of calculation, only domestic water is included, so the intake water volume and waste water volume are the same.

Total water withdrawal (by source)

		2021	2022	2023	2024	FY2024
Amount of water withdrawal (unit: 1,000m³)	Rivers, lakes, and natural ponds	18	22	313	346^*	354^*
	Wells and boreholes (groundwater)	6,984	7,727	8,099	7,675^*	7,544^*
	Water collected at the mining site	0	0	0	0^*	0^*
	City water (potable water)	3,245	3,570	3,549	2,985^*	2,765^*
	External drainage	0	0	0	0^*	0^*
	Rain water	41	0	41	43^*	42^*
	Water collected from the ocean	0	0	1	2^*	1^*
	Total	10,288	11,319	12,003	11,051^*	10,707^*

Scope of Aggregation: Toyota Tsusho Corporation and domestic and overseas consolidated subsidiaries

Discharge water volume

(1,000m³)
		2021	2022	2023	2024	FY2024
Volume	Discharges into rivers and the ocean	8	9	33	73^*	68^*
	Surface water	1,551	743	1,629	2,143^*	1,946^*
	Groundwater, wells	5,520	6,466	6,763	6,544^*	6,503^*
	Off-site water treatment facilities	2,122	3,119	2,691	1,165^*	1,163^*
	Total	9,201	10,337	11,116	9,925^*	9,680^*

Scope of Aggregation: Toyota Tsusho Corporation and domestic and overseas consolidated subsidiaries

Water Consumption

(1,000m³)
	2021	2022	2023	2024	FY2024
Water Consumption	1,087	982	887	1,125^*	1,026^*

Scope of Aggregation: Toyota Tsusho Corporation and domestic and overseas consolidated subsidiaries

Water Consumption (Water Stress Regions)

(1,000m³)
	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024
Domestic	0	0	0	0	0
Overseas	14.0	8.0	4.0	5.2	6.2

Scope of Aggregation: The AQUEDUCT Water Risk Altas was used to evaluate each site in countries with an "overall water risk" of "Extremely High (4-5)" from the AQUEDUCT 3.0 Country Rankings. Areas with an "overall water risk" of "Extremely High (4-5)" were categorized as "water-stressed regions." Manufacturing facilities (plants) with total water withdrawals of 10 megaliters/year or more were defined as "facilities with significant impact."

Number of Sites by Water Risk Level

(Unit: site)
	Number of Sites
Extremely High	83
High	58
Medium - High	90
Low - Medium	87
Low	36

・Confirmed by Overall water risk in WRI AQUEDUCT
・Bases with duplicate addresses will be counted as one base, and bases with only offices will be excluded.
・Scope of Aggregation: Toyota Tsusho Corporation and domestic and overseas consolidated subsidiaries

Water management plans in water stressed region

The Toyota Tsusho Group have formulated water management plans for drought risk in water-stressed region.

Water consumption per employee in the office

	FY2023	FY2024
Target	38 liters/employee/day	38 liters/employee/day
Result	43 liters/employee/day	－

Scope of Aggregation: Toyotsu Bharat Integrated Services Pvt. Ltd.(Location:INDIA)

Water Management-Related Costs

	FY2023	FY2024
Costs Related to Water Risks (including expenses for rainwater and wastewater incineration, ditch repair, ditch cleaning, and other measures to address water risks)	46,652,000 yen	59,720,000 yen
Investments to Mitigate Related Risks (such as small-scale reduced-pressure distillation equipment and small-scale photochemical decomposition equipment)	414,000 yen	2,787,000 yen
Research and Development Expenses with Universities to Improve Water Use Efficiency	4,000,000 yen	4,000,000 yen

Third Party Certification

Third-party certification has been obtained from LRQA Group Limited for a portion of the performance data marked with an asterisk (^*) above.

(2024)

(FY2024)