The Coca-Cola Company Unveils 2030 Water Security Strategy
Water has been vital to Coca-Cola since the business started 135 years ago. About 1/3 of Coca-Cola system’s bottling plants operate in water-stressed areas and more than 70% of its global water footprint is comprised of water used to grow its ingredients. This is the reason why responsible water management is a business imperative and a top priority for the Coca-Cola Company.
On 22 March the Coca-Cola Company announced a holistic strategy to achieve water security by 2030 for its business, communities, and nature everywhere the company operates, sources agricultural ingredients for its beverages, and touches people’s lives.
The strategic framework – which was developed following detailed water risk assessments and shaped by feedback from bottling partners, NGOs, governments, and peer companies – focuses on three priorities:
Reducing shared water challenges around the world.
Enhancing community water resilience with a focus on women and girls.
Improving the health of priority watersheds.
Localized, context-based targets, to be announced later this year, will support the global framework.
Building on results and learnings over the last decade, the strategy maintains leading standards for water risk management, continuous water use efficiency improvement, and wastewater treatment. New priorities include:
Achieving 100% regenerative water use in bottling operations in water-stressed areas by reducing, reusing, recycling and locally replenishing the water they use.
Using a five-element watershed health scorecard to address systemic issues around scarcity, quality, ecosystems, infrastructure and governance, with a priority on nature-based solutions.
Refocusing and broadening replenishment efforts to create systemic impact in priority watersheds.
Continuing to support access to safe drinking water and sanitation for vulnerable communities and helping communities adapt to the water-related impacts of climate change.
Deepening engagement with agricultural suppliers in priority sourcing watersheds to ensure water-sustainable ingredients and landscapes.
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