54 The Hershey Company | 2021 ESG Report Environment The Big Picture Our Company Cocoa Responsible Sourcing and Human Rights Environment Our People Youth Community About This Report Protecting Water Supplies Blue water footprint: Water is critical to our water sourced business and connected to from groundwater Green our climate action strategy. or surface water water resources footprint: In 2020, we joined the Science Based Targets water used Network’s (SBTN) Corporate Engagement from rainwater Program to stay aligned with emerging best practices in water stewardship and the planned release of guidance for SBTs for nature. We are currently participating in SBTN’s self- guided pilot to better understand a path for OUR 2021 BLUE WATER FOOTPRINT Hershey to minimize its water impacts, identify (CUBIC METERS) opportunities to support collective solutions in priority areas and more deeply examine the While the framework for developing intersections between climate, water, land, science-based targets for nature as defined biodiversity and community. in SBTN will focus on blue water (which is In addition to driving water efficiency in controllable), we also plan to identify ways manufacturing, we are exploring agricultural to improve Hershey’s green water use, solutions that protect and enhance which is the majority of our water footprint. water resources. OUR BLUE WATER Sugar: 95,173,912 Applying Best Practices WITHDRAWAL FOOTPRINT Peanuts: 51,069,828 in Malaysia Dairy: 39,561,526 In our Malaysia facility, Hershey team 247 million m3 Almonds: 36,042,993 members have been actively implementing Corn: 15,837,873 more measures to reduce water use. Key Hershey’s U.S. Operations: 5,829,259 water savings have come from finding Wheat: 3,383,202 different ways to reuse the facility’s water. Recycled water is now used in various Soy: 337,870 equipment cleaning processes. So far, these Cocoa: 254,310 water conservation efforts help recycle Pecans: 117,831 10–15% of the facility’s treated water annually. The team is now conducting a study to explore using treated water from a cooling tower for irrigation. +2+3+6+14+16+20+38+D 1