Water Stewardship and Replenish Report - Psddev.com

Managing Water Risk for
Communities and Our Business
Reliable access to sufficient quantities of water from sustainable
water supplies is critical to communities, nature, and business, but in
many parts of the world, that access is under greater pressure than
ever before. Both comprehensive and local water risk assessments
have been instrumental in helping us understand the global water
challenges facing communities and our business, and shape our
water strategy.
Source Water Protection
Detailed Vulnerability Assessments
Our Water Resource Sustainability Standard requires every
bottling plant to complete a detailed source vulnerability
assessment (SVA) that evaluates risks to water resources
supplying their facility and surrounding communities.
Source Water Protection Planning
Bottling plants must develop a locally relevant source
water protection plan (SWPP) detailing the actions, roles,
responsibilities, CWP projects, and funding to address
challenges at the watershed level.
Locally Relevant Water Resource Sustainability
Source water protection is closely linked to our Replenish
commitments, with CWP projects maintained in productive
service to meet local community needs and manage risk.
Helping to Protect Community Water Sources:
A Coca-Cola Requirement
Helping to protect community access to water supplies
is required by Coca-Cola’s internal Water Resource
Sustainability Standard. Every facility within the Coca-Cola
system must adhere to this Standard, with compliance
verified through audits. Three sections of the Standard
address community water access.
The Source Vulnerability Assessment must include a review of
community water sources even if different from Coca-Cola’s
sources. “If the facility’s source of process water is different
than the local community’s source of water, then the
facility must complete a basic assessment of the
sustainability of the community’s source of water.”
The Source Water Protection Plan must include: “An
evaluation to determine if the facility’s water use limits
the availability and quality of water for the people
in the local community. This requirement is designed to
satisfy the Company policy toward taking a rights-based
approach to water.”
The Source Water Protection Plan must also detail: “Actions
to mitigate any adverse effects the facility’s water use
has on the availability and quality of water for the
people in the local community and actions the facility
will take, if any, to address the local community’s
source water risks.”
“Multi-stakeholder initiatives are of critical importance because most of
the water risk companies face exists outside the factory walls. Coca-Cola’s
decision to donate their geospatial water risk data to Aqueduct is a unique—
and extremely valuable—act of corporate social responsibility that reflects the
Company’s commitment to global water stewardship.”
~ Charles Iceland
Senior Associate, World Resources Institute, Markets & Enterprise Program