Ford becomes first car firm to take on water project

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Ford has become the first car manufacturer to join the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) Water Disclosure programme, which will publish water data from some of the world’s largest corporations later this year.

The auto giant will both help to shape the methodology of the questionnaire that will be used by companies in the disclosure process, and disclose its own water impacts.

Ford says that between 2000 and 2008 it reduced its water usage by 56 per cent globally, and that it has now ‘made it a priority to conserve water’.

The Water Disclosure initiative will function as an extension of the CDP, which has established a reporting framework for carbon emissions used by 2500 large companies.

Ford joins more than 100 other firms as a signatory, but is one of the programme’s only manufacturers.