Positive Value Chain: Water
Why it Matters
At all points along our value chain, water is a critical resource to our business, as well as for the health and safety of our employees and communities. Water irrigates the crops we use, is a key ingredient in many of our products and is essential to ensuring we meet the highest product safety and quality standards in our manufacturing facilities. Both PepsiCo and the communities where our products are rely on clean, sustainable water supplies and share a common interest in water protection and conservation.
Our Goals
The foundation of our net water positive vision is an effort to work towards improving water resources in high water risk areas where we operate. We work with community stakeholders to understand water challenges at a local level and support collaborative solutions that aim to address the specific needs of the watershed and the communities that depend on it.
By the end of 2025, we aim to:
- Achieve 100% water replenishment at company-owned facilities designated in high water-risk areas; and
- Continue to adopt the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) Standard in high water-risk (HWR) PepsiCo-owned manufacturing facilities, as a vehicle for water advocacy.
By 2030, we aim to:
- Reach average water-use efficiency ratios of 1.4 liters/liter of production in beverages sites and 1.7 liters/kilogram of production in convenient foods sites for 100% of HWR PepsiCo and franchise bottler manufacturing facilities;
- Replenish back into the local watershed 100% of the water we use in HWR PepsiCo and franchise bottler manufacturing facilities; and
- Reach 100 million people with safe water access.
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Get Involved
Your water journey is a three-step data collection, roadmap strategizing, and implementation process.
The first step is to read the PepsiCo Positive Agriculture Playbook and define the desired state of positive agriculture changes needed for your company.
- Read the PepsiCo Positive Agriculture Playbook and define the desired state.
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The second step is to develop a Positive Agriculture roadmap with initiatives and milestones.
- Create a Positive Agriculture roadmap with initiatives and milestones.
- Ensure milestones will achieve the KPIs and goals of the PepsiCo Positive Agriculture Playbook.
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The third step is to implement your Positive Agriculture roadmap and report progress to PepsiCo.
- Track your roadmap initiatives and milestones.
- Report your progress to PepsiCo annually using the Positive Agriculture progress report template
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