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Water use

In 2004, we used 20.5 million cubic metres of water - equivalent to the water used in one year by approximately 80,000 UK households. This was sourced from municipal water supplies (60.5%), wells/boreholes (39.0%), and other sources (0.5%).

All five of our sites in India use processed wastewater for watering plants and trees, which help provide shade, improve the appearance of the site, and also a source of food for employees. They do not discharge any wastewater to water bodies or to municipal sewers. Our site in Xochimilco, Mexico uses processed wastewater for watering gardens around the site, washing vehicles, windows and other uses not requiring drinking water. Our sites in Turkey and the Philippines also reuse all wastewater.

Year	Other*	Municipal sources	Wells/ boreholes
	(million cubic metres)
2001	0.0	15.2	11.6
2002	0.0	14.3	10 .0
2003	0.1	13.0	9.9
2004	0.1	12.4	8.0

Per unit sales as percentage of 2001 baseline
2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
100%	87.4%	81.9%	76.7%	90.0%

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Business	2001	2002	2003	2004
	(million cubic metres)
01. R&D	3.14	2.99	2.74	2.66
02. Biologicals	1.15	1.20	1.26	1.26
03. Consumer healthcare	4.87	4.42	4.85	4.27
04. New product and global supply	1.47	1.51	1.32	1.28
05. Regional pharma supply	2.92	2.93	2.49	2.10
06. Primary supply and antibiotics	12.35	9.94	9.13	7.73
07. Commercial	0.01	0.46	0.39	0.24
08. Other	0.94	0.83	0.84	0.92

Total water consumption decreased by 10.9% since 2003 (23.8% since 2001). Water consumption per unit sales decreased by 6.3% since 2003 (23.3% since 2001) - meaning we have exceeded our 2005 target of a 10% reduction per unit sales since 2001.

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