Action on water
Treating water with the care it deserves
Water is the main ingredient in our products and essential to our manufacturing processes. We’re taking a value chain approach to treating water with the care it deserves.
In many of our territories, water resources are affected by over exploitation, poor water management and the impacts of climate change. Water scarcity and deteriorating water quality in our supply chain have become major issues for our business in Western Europe. We’re working to ensure a sustainable supply of water, by reducing the amount of water we use in our operations and protecting local water sources for future generations. The work we do to promote clean water and sanitation helps to support UN Sustainable Development Goal 6.
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Action on water: Our 2025 Commitments
Water reduction
We’ll reduce the water we use in manufacturing by 20% - and address water impacts in our supply chain.
Water protection
We’ll protect the sustainability of the water sources we use for future generations.
Water replenishment
We’ll replenish 100% of the water we use in areas of water stress.
Progress against our targets in 2018
Action on water: Our stories
Since 2012, we have supported WWF UK on a range of projects to protect and replenish the UK's rivers, including the creation of a new area of wetland to address urban flood risk. Read more
Improving Belgium's wetlands: we have supported Natuurpunt to restore indigenous trees in the Kalmthoutse nature reserve and combat drainage in an area of wetlands in the Demervallei. Read more
Replenishing wetlands in France: we are working with WWF France to restore the Camargue wetlands and improve their biodiversity and ecosystems for the next 20 years. Read more
We protected groundwater near our Aquabona bottling plant in Spain following a forest fire in 2009, replenishing 943.8 million litres of water and planting more than 66,300 trees. Read more
We supported METRO's Water Initiative campaign, raising more than €12,000 for EUROPARC's work on promoting coastal cleaning and marine protection in the Biosphere Reserve in Germany. Read more
