Water Stewardship and Replenish Report - Psddev.com

Leading the Way
in Water Stewardship
Throughout our operations, in our global supply chain, and beyond, we remain
deeply committed to water stewardship to enable us to build and maintain
a truly water-sustainable business, and to further the science and practice of
water conservation. Our strategy begins with world-class water management
and efficiency in our 860-plus bottling plants, and extends to watershed
protection, sustainable communities and economic development, and initiatives
that educate and inspire others to act.
Our Strategic Approach
As responsible water stewards, we are becoming more efficient by reducing the
amount of water used per liter of product, even as we increase our production
volume, and we are doing so through state-of-the-art water efficiency practices.
We are making sure that our process water is treated and returned to the
environment for use by nature and communities. We are replenishing, or
balancing, the water used in our finished beverages through community water
partnerships. And we are working with our key suppliers to help them better
delineate and better manage the water they use, contributing to a more waterefficient
supply chain from their farms to our beverage facilities.
Locally Relevant Water Strategies
While the Coca-Cola brand is unquestionably global, our business itself is quite
local, as is our water strategy. We are employers, distributors, and community
members in villages, towns, and cities in 207 countries. Helping to make
sure these communities maintain access to adequate and sustainable
supplies of freshwater is a key way we build and contribute to
sustainable communities, fostering sound economic development
and a healthy quality of life. In addition, because water-related impacts are
local, efforts to mitigate impacts are most effective in the watersheds where the
impacts occur. The CWP program not only strives to replenish the water used in
our finished beverages, but also to support thriving and sustainable watersheds
and ecosystems in local communities through the nearly 400 locally relevant
water projects profiled in Appendices A and B.
Global Water Stewardship
Strategic Intent
Our strategic intent is to link water
stewardship to business growth by:
Balancing global production volume
with locally relevant water projects
that deliver benefits equal to
production volume
Protecting reputation, brand,
manufacturing capacity, and product
quality and safety
Advancing the awareness and
practice of water conservation and
science.