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Coca-Cola and Its Bottlers Aim for 20 Percent Water Reduction This Year
united states, GA, ATLANTA — The Coca-Cola Company is working in partnership with its
independent bottling partners to achieve a 20 percent reduction of water use this year, according to
the company‘s director of Quality-Policy, Product & Technology, D.V. Darshane.
―Globally, our goal is to safely return to communities and nature an amount of water equivalent to
what we use in all of our products and their production,‖ Darshane told OOSKAnews via email this
week.
―Using water more efficiently in our bottling plants, including the water used by our independent
bottling partners, is an important part of our global water stewardship goal. At present, in partnership
with our bottling partners, we are working toward a 20 percent improvement of our water use
efficiency by 2012.‖
Earlier this month, the company rolled out a ―first of its kind‖ beverage process water recovery
system, which has been trialed in Mexico and India and will be used system-wide technology by
2013.
This system takes already highly treated water and adds further biological treatment through
membrane bioreactor, ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, ozonation and lastly ultraviolet disinfection.
It makes the water purer than drinking water standards, according to the company.
―By reusing cleaned and treated water for non-product applications, the new system could potentially
lessen the company‘s withdrawal of water in the long-term as our unit case volume continues to
grow. In the Coca-Cola system alone, that‘s approximately 900 bottling locations in 206 countries,‖
Greg Koch, director of global water stewardship for the Coca-Cola Company, was quoted as saying
by GreenBiz.
Coca-Cola estimates the new system could save the company 100 billion liters of water a year, or 35
percent of operational water needs, once adopted across its entire bottling network.
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