Water Reduction and Stewardship

Mission 2025 sustainability commitments

• Reduce water used per litre of beverage by 20% vs. 2017 in plants located in water risk areas;

• Help secure water availability for all our communities in water risk areas.

Water touches every aspect of our business. 

Climate change affects water availability and water quality. Our commitment is to protect this valuable resource, especially in those areas of our operations where water is scarce or at risk. We do this by:

• Reducing, reusing and replenishing the amount of water we use in our activities. 
• Recycling the wastewater from our manufacturing sites and returning it to the environment.
• Ensuring that communities have access to safe, clean water.
• Engaging with suppliers on our Principles for Sustainable Agriculture.

We use water from the start to the end of the production process for our drinks:

• Growing core ingredients, such as sugar and the fruit that provides our juice concentrates.
• Using it as the largest component of our beverages and cleaning, washing and sanitising production equipment and processes.

We have been doing comprehensive risk assessments for many years and calculating the True Cost of Water for investment decisions.

Water reduction and stewardship

Our Mission 2025 commitment for water risk areas is to reduce water-use ratio in plants by 20% compared with our 2017 baseline and help secure water availability for communities in which we operate.

In our operations, we have 19 water priority locations1, including Armenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Nigeria. These locations face specific stress factors such as:

• Water being scarce.
• Local communities lacking access to water and sanitation services. 
• Deteriorating water quality in the watersheds.

In these areas, we focus on water-replenishment activities, nature-based solutions and improving water quality.

Water stewardship community projects

We have 12 water stewardship community projects in water risk areas where we have plants. In 2023, we started new projects in Maiduguri, Nigeria. With support from The Coca-Cola Foundation, we delivered solar powered boreholes with overhead tanks in four communities. These aim to give 14,000 local people access to safe WASH services.