The report details how Coca-Cola is improving its water performance and managing its water resources to deliver water for health and human prosperity.
Bea Perez, Coca-Cola’s chief sustainability officer, said: “The future of communities, nature and business depends on responsible water management. To overcome today’s water challenges, we must all take extraordinary action. At Coca-Cola, we’re utilising innovative techniques and collaborating through world-class partnerships to ensure the sustainability of this precious shared resource.”
In 2007, The Coca-Cola Company committed to safely return to nature and to communities an amount of water equivalent to what is used in all of its beverages and their production by 2020. To meet this goal and measure progress along the way, the company established the following targets:
The 2012 Global Water Stewardship and Replenish Report details Coca-Cola’s advancement toward these targets:
Approximately 54.8 billion litres of water have been replenished to communities and nature through locally relevant Community Water Partnership projects, representing 35% of water used in the company’s finished beverages.
Coca-Cola partners with its bottlers and suppliers, as well as with more than 500 external organisations, including governments, NGOs, civil society and other companies, to meet its water stewardship goals. Since 2005, the Coca-Cola system has engaged in more than 386 Community Water Partnership projects in 94 countries.
The range of projects includes watershed protection, access to water and sanitation, water for productive use, such as agricultural water efficiency and education and awareness programmes.
Source: The Coca-Cola Company
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