We always try to invest in sustainable technologies and take actions to ensure the conservation and quality of water with initiatives that go far beyond meeting the legal requirements. Our Water Resources Management has already been awarded by the National Water Agency with the ANA Award for Conservation and Rational Use of Water.
We work in conservation at every stage of the water cycle: protection and restoration of springs and waterways, rational use of water resources, atmospheric emission control and effluent treatment. Thus, we demonstrate that it is possible for the sugar-energy sector to grow with sustainability, producing food and energy and preserving water resources.
It aims at the preservation of riparian forests and the restoration of natural areas once degraded by farming practices that were not in harmony with the environment. We reforested those areas to preserve water resources. We have already planted over 5 million trees of Cerrado native species with seedlings produced in our own nursery.
We conduct environmental education campaigns with employees and the community to encourage the conservation of water resources.
We adopt methodologies and soil conservation techniques for water resources do not suffer the consequences of inadequate management, particularly proposing erosion control. That includes management and soil conservation activities to prevent siltation of water bodies in the areas of sugarcane planting.
Its practices aim at producing a natural agent fighting against the sugarcane borer (Diatraea saccharalis), thus avoiding the contamination of the environment with pesticides, that could possibly be taken to the waterways.
Activities based on rational use of water in the industrial environment and maximum reuse of water in sugar and ethanol production process in closed circuits.
Monitoring of surface waters: we periodically perform physical and chemical analysis of the water bodies existing in our agricultural areas to monitor and ensure their quality.
Construction of dams to regulate the flow of water courses: technically those dams bring positive effects for agriculture and for the environment, since productivity tends to increase due to the availability of water in the soil during periods of drought.
Fertigation: vinasse application in sugarcane fields saves 25% of the water that would be used for irrigation.