VW India get honoured for promoting water use effi

Volkswagen India was honoured with a Certificate of Appreciation at the first International Conference on “Promoting Water Use Efficiency in Urban Sector to Address Climate Change” held at the beginning of October in Delhi. This honour underlines the company’s efforts within its Think Blue Factory initiative for sustainable and environment friendly car production.

The conference was organised by CII-Triveni Water Institute in partnership with United States Agency for International Development India. On behalf of the company, Umesh Benkalkar from Think Blue Factory project, Volkswagen India Private Limited, received the certificate during the first International Conference on “Promoting Water Use Efficiency in Urban Sector to Address Climate Change”. 
Together with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), CII-Triveni Water Institute (CII-TWI) promotes Water Use Efficiency across urban sectors to help prepare the society to address the likely impacts of climate variability and change. Volkswagen India Private Limited with its Pune Plant in Chakan was part of the year long-study conducted in three cities, namely Pune, Jaipur and Faridabad. In this context the CII-TWI conducted water audits and were convinced with the exemplary water management in the Pune Plant, which is part of the Think Blue Factory strategy.