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).

Stakeholder Involvement and Support Activities at Business Sites in Water-Stressed Regions

Our affiliated company, Techno Trends Auto Park Pvt., Ltd. (India), is working to reduce water consumption by reusing treated water after its own wastewater treatment for gardening and domestic wastewater. It is also accepting the treatment of wastewater from neighboring business partners and is working to prevent wastewater from being discharged outside its premises to protect the living 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. We received a "A-" evaluation as a result of the responses to the CDP questionnaire conducted in 2023.

Performance Data

Water Consumption (Domestic Offices) — Scope of Aggregation: Toyota Tsusho Corporation (head offices, branches, sales offices, field offices) and domestic consolidated subsidiaries

Water Consumption (Overseas Offices) — Scope of Aggregation: overseas consolidated subsidiaries

Toyota Tsusho Office Water Intake and Release Volumes — 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.

Biomass Power Generation Related Water Intake Volume

	2020	2021	2022	2023
Shimane (1,000 m³)	283	260	302	278
Ehime (1,000 m³)	403	375	331	223

Scope of Aggregation: Two domestic Group companies (biomass power generation companies)

Total water withdrawal (by source)

		2021	2022	2023
Amount of water withdrawal (unit: 1,000m³)	Rivers, lakes, and natural ponds	18	22	313
	Wells and boreholes (groundwater)	6,984	7,727	8,099
	Water collected at the mining site	0	0	0
	City water (potable water)	3,245	3,570	3,549
	External drainage	0	0	0
	Rain water	41	0	0
	Water collected from the ocean	0	0	0
	Total	10,288	11,319	12,003

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

Water Consumption (Water Stress Regions) — 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)
	FY2022	FY2023
Extremely High	22	83
High	137	58
Medium - High	45	90
Low - Medium	70	87
Low	116	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	37 liters/employee/day
Result	39 liters/employee/day
	Although in fiscal 2023, we were able to exceed our targets due to increased operation due to recovery from the coronavirus pandemic in 2023, we have set a goal of 37 liters/person/day in 2024, which is above the previous year's target.

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

Third Party Certification

Third-party certification has been obtained from LRQA Group Limited for a portion of the performance data above.

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