Coca-Cola is the first Fortune 500 company to replenish all the water it uses globally

The Coca-Cola Company and its global bottling partners on Monday announced that they have met their goal to replenish, or in other words, balance, the equivalent amount of water to their global sales volume, back to nature and communities, making Coca-Cola the first Fortune 500 Company to publicly claim achieving such an aggressive water replenishment target. Replenish projects work to balance, or offset, the direct water use of The CocaCola Company and its bottling partners across operations in more than 200 countries. The water use is inclusive of water used within manufacturing as well as finished beverages, which includes water from fountain sales.

Based on a global water use assessment validated by LimnoTech and Deloitte, and conducted in association with The Nature Conservancy, the Coca-Cola system returned an estimated 191.9 billion liters of water to nature and communities in 2015, through community water projects, with this being equivalent of 115 percent of the water used in Coca-Cola’s finished beverages last year.

Coca-Cola Pakistan has also made a significant contribution to achieve the global water replenishment target through the Ayubia National Park Sub-watershed Management Project, being implemented in phases since 2008 in partnership with WWF-Pakistan. The company has so far invested over Rs. 85 million in this project, which has positively impacted 135,000 local people. The project achievements include recharging of over 782 million liters of groundwater, protection and development of 20 out of the 23 natural springs in the area, remodeling of water channels and construction of check-dams to conserve water, and the installation of rainwater harvesting systems.