Our community water programs are designed to support healthy watersheds and sustainable programs to balance the water used throughout our production process. We do this by working on a wide range of locally relevant initiatives, such as watershed protection; expanding community drinking water and sanitation access; agricultural water use efficiency; and education and awareness programs.
Together with our bottling partners, we collaborate with the United Nations Development Programme, Global Water Challenge, PlayPumps International, CARE , Ocean Conservancy and others to protect watersheds and support initiatives that bring clean water and sanitation to underserved areas. Since 2005, we have developed Community Water Partnerships, with more than 250 projects in 70 countries.
One of our largest collaborations is with the
We are working with The Nature Conservancy to review our current community water initiatives and develop methodologies for quantifying their impact. We also are involved with the "Water Footprint Working Group" to develop standards and guidelines for water footprint accounting and to define the concept of water neutrality. This work complements our engagement with the CEO Water Mandate, a joint initiative of the United Nations Global Compact and the government of Sweden. The CEO Water Mandate seeks to build an international movement of committed companies working to develop strategies and solutions to help address the water challenges facing the world today.
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2010 Replenish Report This report details our efforts to replenish the water we use to make our products. In 2009, we asked respected experts to work with us to begin to calculate the water benefits of these projects to communities and nature. The following reports from The Nature Conservancy and Global Environment & Technology is the outcome of those efforts and detail the methodologies developed used in calculating liters 'replenished' from CWP projects . Our objective in publishing these reports is to encourage an open and transparent dialogue on accounting methods for water benefits. |
Quantifying Watershed Restoration Benefits Read The Nature Conservancy's and LimnoTech's January 2010 report. Download now » |
Quantifying Water Access Benefits Read Global Environment & Technology Foundation's September 2009 report. Download now » |
MapView a global map of where we are collaborating to address water Download now » |
Where the River Flows: Partnership in Action Find out how our partnerships are preserving the freshwater river basin that feeds into the Mesoamerican Caribbean Reef. View now » |
Community Watershed Partnership See how we are working with partners to provide safe water to primary schools in Western Kenya. View now » |