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McDonald's restaurants use, on average, about 1,650 gallons of water per day. For all restaurants, that's a total of somewhere around 19.2 billion gallons a year. Most of the water is used for personal sanitation, cleaning and, in some cases, landscape maintenance.
A corporate-level Global Water Team coordinates and supports our water management efforts. Team members include our major suppliers of water filtration systems, our primary suppliers of restaurant chemical cleaning products, The Coca Cola Company, which has an interest in the quality of water used in our beverages, relevant departments within McDonald's, and other experts.
The Team has established global water quality standards. These are intended to ensure that the water used in our restaurants is safe and free from contamination so that it is suitable for food preparation, cleaning, sanitation, and personal hygiene.
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- Water conservation.
- Reducing levels of greases and sugars in our restaurants’ waste water.
- Designing systems so that water is filtered according to the level of quality necessary in different areas within a restaurant—for example, filtered at an extra-high level in the beverage area.
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Water conservation is a particular focus in some of our local markets. It has long been a priority in Australia, where recurrent droughts limit water supplies. McDonald's Switzerland has installed dry urinals in most of our restaurants there, reducing total water use by about 10%. Some of our Swiss restaurants also collect rain water for landscape maintenance. Other local business units have explored rain water harvesting, as well as other water conservation options.
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