Reply to post: A drop at a time

Intel's net positive water use only tells part of the story

lowwall

A drop at a time

Intel has published its projects at https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/environment/intel-and-the-environment.html

This is how Intel is coming up with its return numbers

Firsthand reductions

- Adjusting manufacturing processes so it uses less water per unit of output (wafer/$/transistor/?)

- Treat and reuse some of the water that flows through the foundries

- Using water produced by a desalinization plant in Israel

But these only go so far, so they are including third party reductions as water "returned" to the community. This includes:

- finding some local inefficiency in water consumption (such as flood irrigation where drip irrigation will do) and paying somebody to fix the issue

- paying people with local water rights not to use those rights

- buying land or conservation easements or restoring wetlands that at least theoretically result in recharged aquifers or higher river flow

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