WEBVTT 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:06.000 [Rushing Waters] [Poignant Piano Music] 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:24.000 [Jim Bath] The reservoir behind me is a source of water for the city of Cape Town, South Africa. 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.000 [Kevin Winter] Our dams in 2014 were overflowing, 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:30.000 so you didn't anticipate that the next year 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:35.000 you would suddenly find yourself with below 40% of average rainfall. 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:38.000 [Dimmie Hendriks] Where we see water now it was all dry. 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.000 So that was really scary, I think, for the people. 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:43.500 [Winter] Planning ahead is all very well, 00:00:43.500 --> 00:00:49.000 but you can't plan ahead for a 1-in-300 year failure of system. 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:53.000 [Christine Colvin] We couldn't rely on new sources of water coming on-stream. 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.000 Even the chief engineer of the City of Cape Town said 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:59.000 we cannot build our way out of a drought, 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.000 we have to save our way out of a drought. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:04.000 [Vetrivel Dhagumundi] Water is an issue in India. 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:06.000 As a child that grew up with water scarcity, 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:11.000 I still remember my times of carrying water to the house and pumping water for everyday use. 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:13.000 [Jason Mingo] If there's no water in the taps, 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:15.000 you're gonna have to take time off work. 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.000 You're gonna have to stand in queues to get water. 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:19.000 What does that mean for your quality of life? 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:23.000 [Dramatic String Music] 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:29.000 [Dhagumundi] It was really inspiring to see that people in Cape Town stood up. 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:32.000 It was just not the community or the government. 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:35.000 Every citizen of Cape Town stood up to really produce water. 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:38.000 [Winter] And one just needs to say that at the moment 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:41.000 there are about 22 cities in the world --very large cities-- 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:44.000 that are facing almost exactly what we going through 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:47.000 large cities with over 4-5 million people. 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:52.000 [Thoughtful String Music] 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:26.000 [Dhagumundi] Historically, Kimberly-Clark always focused on water reduction as it's water strategy. 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.000 So as we were in the journey, 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:31.500 we realized that just focusing on our facility is not the only solution. 00:02:31.500 --> 00:02:34.000 We definitely needed a local watershed aspect. 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:38.000 [Bath] --But we quickly realized that if nobody else in the watershed did anything, 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:41.000 We would be in the exact same position. 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:42.500 We wouldn't have water to operate. 00:02:42.500 --> 00:02:46.000 Our employees wouldn't have water to sustain their way of life in our community. 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.000 We all had to work together to achieve that sustainable level of water usage 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:51.000 and we all win when we do that. 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:55.000 [Colvin] It's no good if you are the last man standing with water 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:59.000 in an area that everybody else doesn't have access to water. 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.000 [Bath] We've used a number of tools. 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:06.000 The World Resources Institute has a tool called Aqueduct. 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:09.000 So that really helped us identify the hot spots around the world 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:13.000 that were coincided with where we had operating facilities. 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:18.000 [Dhagumundi] So we identified 12 out of 44 tissue facilities across the globe 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.000 are part of high water risk. 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.000 In terms of water stewardship, the most important thing 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:25.000 is to really have a collective action and a stakeholder engagement. 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:29.000 We partnered with Deltares to start to work on watershed analysis. 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:32.000 So we really focused on understanding water availability. 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:39.000 We're looking at social, economic, population changes, and biodiversity issues, regulation changes 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:42.000 -- and that was used to actually build the Waterloo tool. 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:44.000 [Hendriks] We combine all the hard data 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:48.000 with all the more specific stakeholder knowledge that we get from the workshops. 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.000 So in the end, we put everything in the tool 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:56.000 and it's meant to also help all the local people to visualize the issue. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:59.000 [Mingo] Yeah, I think the important relationship that's been developed with Kimberly-Clark 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:03.000 and the work that they're doing to support the arteries in the development of the WaterLOUPE tool 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:06.000 is this aspect of providing a platform 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:10.000 in which we can bring all those stakeholders back to the table. 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:15.000 [Hendriks] We're in Cape Town to do the WaterLOUPE workshop 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:18.000 together with Kimberly-Clark and the Western Cape province. 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.000 [Bath] The national government, the provincial government, 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:24.000 the City of Cape Town itself, the municipalities, 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:28.000 some NGOs that are active in the area and concerned about water. 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:32.000 [Mingo] What are our key mandates? What are the sort of the resource limitations? 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.000 Those seem to fall away, and it's just all our focusing 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.000 around how do we all come together to achieve that single objective? 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:43.000 [Winter] The understanding of water and how water interacts with people's lives 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:45.000 is very, very different indeed. 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:48.000 [Dhagumundi] It's a common problem, it's a community problem, 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:50.000 and we need to solve it together. 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:54.000 [Inspiring String Music] 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:00.000 [Winter] I really commend the company for going beyond the factory fence 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.000 and being concerned about the circumstances of communities 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:07.000 in and around its plant. 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:12.000 That's not just public relations, that's about taking a responsible approach 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:16.000 to assisting those that are in the near neighborhood. 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:20.000 [Bath] It's a direct support of Kimberly Clark's vision 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:22.000 of providing essentials for a better life 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:26.000 and really what's more essential than a clean environment and water? 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:30.000 [Poignant String Music]