Performance With Purpose: The Promise Of PepsiCo 1

Environmental SustainabilityWater21Improve our water-useefficiency by 20 percentper unit of productionby 2015.Water efficiency has long been an environmentalfocus at PepsiCo. Throughthe third quarter of 2010, our global foodand beverage businesses reduced wateruseintensity by 19.5 percent versus2006. And we’re on track to achieve our2015 target for company-owned facilities.Upgrading our facilities with newtechnologies is one important way weare reaching this goal. For example, ourFrito-Lay facility in Casa Grande,Arizona has been equipped with a stateof-the-artwater filtration andpurification system that can recycle andreuse up to 75 percent of the waterused in production. Similar technologyis also being deployed in our Tingalpafacility in Australia, a water-stressedarea. We will continue to apply lessonslearned in one facility to others acrossour global footprint. (*)Reduced wateruseintensity by19.5 percent as ofthird quarter 2010,compared to our2006 baseline.(*)At our Frito-Lay facility in Casa Grande, Arizona,we are applying membrane bioreactor and lowpressurereverse osmosis technology to purify andrecycle up to 75 percent of the site’s process water.22Strive for positivewater balance in ouroperations in waterdistressedareas.In 2009, PepsiCo’s operations inIndia achieved positive waterbalance, enabling us to give backto society more water than weused to manufacture our products.To expand this achievementto other water-distressedareas where we have a presence,we have launched a number ofprojects. In 2010, for example,we began working with TheNature Conservancy to developways to identify areas of highwater risk, so we can focus ourattention and resources onachieving “net positive waterimpact” in the most vulnerableareas where we operate. Wehave selected watersheds inChina, Mexico, Europe, Indiaand the U.S. to pilot the developmentof a flexible and robustsystem that allows PepsiCoplants not only to characterizetheir water risk, but also identifylocally relevant restorationinitiatives that will improvewater availability. (*)(*) See page 19.33