Water Stewardship and Replenish Report - Psddev.com

Our Water Stewardship Goals
Our global water stewardship goal is to safely return to nature and to communities
an amount of water equivalent to what we use in all our beverages and their
production by 2020. Our water stewardship platform is tied to our global
production volume, so that as our business grows, so does our investment in
community water partnerships that help us to achieve and maintain 100%
balance by 2020 and thereafter. To accomplish this ambitious end goal, the entire
Coca-Cola system has embraced the following water targets:
ReDUCe our water use ratio to improve water efficiency by 20% by 2012 (using
2004 efficiency as our baseline).
ReCyCLe the water used in our manufacturing processes at 100% of our plants
by ensuring it is treated and returned to the environment at a level that supports
aquatic life. We refer to this as recycle because our treated wastewater upon
discharge supports local watersheds and can be used by others downstream.
RePLenISH the water used in our finished beverages by participating in locally
relevant projects that include watershed protection and conservation, community
drinking water and sanitation access, and water for productive community use to
produce a volumetric benefit equivalent to our global beverage production volume.
We intend to meet this goal by 2020 and maintain it thereafter.
MAnAGe RISk by assessing the vulnerabilities of the quality and quantity of
water sources for each of our bottling plants and for communities to make sure we
do what we can to avoid adversely affecting the ability of others to access water,
achieving full Coca-Cola system compliance with our Water Resource Sustainability
Standard, and implementing a locally relevant program by the end of 2012.
Right: The Grassy Slough Preserve is part of the Cache River Wetlands, one of only 15 designated
“Wetlands of International Importance” in the world. Photo Credit: The Nature Conservancy
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