Clean Water for Planet
Established in 2016, the Clean Water for Planet project is comprised of three key activities as detailed below.
1) TRAINING COURSES FOR STUDENTS AND KNOWLEDGE-SHARING WITH LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS
In collaboration with Chulalongkorn University, WHA Group provides engineering students with training courses on water conservation and wastewater management. The WHA Group offers internship programs for university students each year in order for them to gain newfound knowledge from the Group's expertise and specialization in wastewater and water management services. The internship program had 4 students participating in 2021.
2) WHA CLEAN WATER FOR PLANET LEARNING CENTRE
The learning center is a water management consultant center for various organizations or agencies, student communities, and interested individuals. The learning center showcases WHA's innovative water management, logistics and supply chain developments, industrial development, utilities, and power development expertise that can run a business with the community while also preserving the environment and reinforcing the circular economy concept. In 2021, 2 visiting groups visited and observed WHA Group's expertise in wastewater treatment at the constructed wetland project.
3) PROVIDE CLEAN WATER FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES.
One of the program's most notable accomplishments was the delivery of a constructed wetland system, considered a natural technology that is eco-friendly, cost-effective, and easy to maintain, to the Pluak Dang Sub-District Office in Rayong province. The overall water treatment process in the wetland system can be found in the Water Management chapter.
Wetland Water Systems could reduce organic compounds by 80%, treat waste water with a capacity of 146,000 cubic meters per year, and benefit 4,000 people, 220 apartments, 125 houses, and 30 local markets in the Pluak Daeng community. As a result, this process may reduce the company's risk of receiving complaints about water pollution.
WHA Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Banchang Municipality for Wastewater Reclamation Project in 2021. WHA Group plays a key role in promoting, supporting, sharing knowledge with system operators, and serving as a design consultation system. The MoU agreement is part of WHA Group's Clean Water for Planet CSR initiative, and Ban Chang municipality's plan to embrace a "Smart City" concept. Realizing the need for an enhanced water system management, both parties aim to maximize the use of reclaimed water from Ban Chang communities by industrial operators in neighboring WHA industrial estates.
Moving forward, the WHA Group has built a similar sustainable wastewater treatment system in Nong-kla municipality, Chantaburi province. The system can treat up to 800 cubic meters of wastewater per day. The WHA Group sees this project as having two benefits: it gives the Nong Kla communities access to clean water, and it allows the WHA Group to reserve such a water supply as a backup in the event of a drought.
In 2021, special for WHA Eastern Industrial Estate (Map Ta Phut) (WHA EIE) received Eco Industrial Town Awards in the Eco-Exellence category during the recent ECO Innovation Forum 2021 co-organized by Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand, Department of industrial works, Federation of Thai Industries and Water and Environment Institute for Sustainability.
In addition, five of WHA Industrial Estates received Eco Industrial Town Awards in the Eco- Champion category
- WHA Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate 1 (WHA ESIE 1)
- WHA Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate 2 (WHA ESIE 2)
- WHA Chonburi Industrial Estate 1 (WHA CIE 1)
- WHA Chonburi Industrial Estate 2 (WHA CIE 2)
- Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate (ESIE)
All 6 of WHA Industrial Estates were recognized for their outstanding commitment in operating a conscious business that drives sustainability, in line with the smart and sustainable industrial town concept.
