AB-INBEV President for East Africa Roberto Jarrin
PRIVATE Sector has a key role in ensuring that it utilises and manages water efficiently to ensure that the resource is available to all, the AB-INBEV President for East Africa Roberto Jarrin has said.
Jarrin who is also the Tanzania
Breweries Limited (TBL) Group Managing Director was speaking at the 10th
Economic Update Meeting organised by the World Bank in Dar es Salaam
which sought to address the urgent need of improving water resource
management in the country.
Mr Jarrin said water is a major
ingredient of the company’s products and that it had a water footprint
strategy which provided clear global guidelines and bench marks on the
effective use and management of water at all its sites.
The meeting highlighted the strong link
between economic growth and water given that agriculture is the mainstay
of industrial growth in the country. Agriculture currently accounts for
approximately 89 per cent of water used in the country.
“We have over the years maintained a
clear focus on improving the quality of water as well as reducing the
amount of water used to produce our products,” he said.
“We are committed to working with
farmers to consider ways in which we can manage this finite resource,”
Jarrin noted further that water and agricultural produce mainly barley,
sorghum and maize are the most important ingredients in all the products
produced by TBL group.
“We will therefore, continue to work
with stakeholders to support sustainable business practices in the water
and agriculture sector,” he said.
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