Water

• Improve our water use efficiency by 20% per unit of production by 2015.
• Strive for positive water balance in our operations in water-distressed areas.
• Provide access to safe water to three million people in developing countries by the end of 2015.

Here are just a few ways we're working to meet our goals:

PepsiCo saved more than 11 billion liters of water in 2009, through eco-efficiency improvements within our operations. These water savings represent improvements in the efficiency of our water use, expressed per unit of production, in 2009 versus our baseline year of 2006.

In India, PepsiCo's manufacturing team has reduced water usage by more than 45% since 2005, conserving more than three billion liters of water and, in 2009, achieving a positive water balance–that is, giving back more water than our facilities consumed.

In the U.S., we began cleaning new Gatorade bottles with purified air, instead of rinsing with water. It works so well that we're spreading this and other conservation techniques to bottling plants around the world, saving billions of liters of water from going down the drain.

We equipped our Frito-Lay facility in Arizona with a state-of-the-art water filtration and purification system to recycle and reuse approximately 80% of the process water used in production.  For 10 consecutive years, we've significantly reduced the amount of water used to make our Frito-Lay products in North America. 

We also partner with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to help install irrigation systems, improve sanitation programs and recharge dry wells in developing communities around the world.  Since 2005, the PepsiCo Foundation has committed more than $15 million to initiatives that provide access to safe water and sanitation to communities in developing countries.

Learn more:

• The Promise of PepsiCo
• The PepsiCo Foundation

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Our search for a clean and ample water supply brings us into the lives of many individuals around the globe. We recognize the impact of our business on each community in which we operate, and likewise the impact of our communities on our business. We are committed to supporting governments which preserve the Human Right to Water of individuals in the communities where our company operates, and advocating this right more broadly through our strategic approaches across the enterprise. The United Nations defines the Human Right to Water as all people's right to safe, sufficient, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic use. Therefore, PepsiCo agrees to the following steps to ensure that our business engagement across the globe, first and foremost, respects the Human Right to Water:

Safety: We will ensure that our operations preserve the quality of the water resources in the communities in which we do business;

Sufficiency: Our operating objective is to ensure that our use of water will not diminish the availability of community water resources to the individuals or the communities in the areas in which we operate;

Acceptability: We will involve communities in our plans to develop water resources, and will assure transparency of any risks or challenges to the local governments and community members in an on-going manner;

Physical Accessibility: We will assure that our operations will not adversely impact physical accessibility of community members to community water resources and will address community concerns in a cooperative manner;

Affordability: We will appropriately advocate to applicable government bodies that safe water supplies should be available in a fair and equitable manner to members of the community. Such water should be safe and of consistent and adequate supply and affordable within local practices.

We at PepsiCo respect the human rights recognized by the countries in which we operate, and will not take any action that would undermine a state's obligation to its citizens to protect and fulfill the Human Right to Water,  and we commit to operate within the principles of the Human Right to Water Policy as defined by the United Nations.

PepsiCo Chairman and CEO, Indra Nooyi, showed her commitment to helping end the global water crisis by signing the United Nations CEO Water Mandate in 2007. The Mandate states a commitment to adhere to a holistic approach to water management in six areas:

• Direct Operations
• Supply Chain and Watershed Management
• Collective Action
• Public Policy
• Community Engagement
• Transparency