Action on water
Treating water with the care it deserves
Content finalised at beginning of May 2021 related to CCEP’s operations in Western Europe.
For more information on sustainability related to CCEP’s operations in Australia, Pacific and Indonesia click here
Water is an essential resource – both for our own business and across our value chain. We treat water with the care it deserves, aiming to reduce our water consumption on a continual basis and protect local water sources for future generations.
Global water crises such as water scarcity are ranked among the highest risks to the economy and society.
CCEP depends on a sustainable and high quality supply of water. Not only is water the main ingredient in many of our products, it’s also essential for our manufacturing processes, and for growing the agricultural ingredients we depend upon.
To address water scarcity challenges and take care of our water resources, we adopt a value chain approach to water management. We’re focused on reducing the water we use in our production facilities, including the safe return to nature of 100% of our wastewater. We’re also working with a number of community based partnerships to replenish 100% of the water we use in areas of water stress.
Our actions on water helps us to support UN Sustainable Development Goal 6.
Our rivers and chalk streams face countless threats. Through its support, CCEP is helping to make a real difference to our unique water habitats, and the wildlife and communities that rely on them.
Mark Lloyd
CEO, The Rivers Trust
Our 2025 commitments
- Water reduction
- Water protection
- Water replenishment
We’ll reduce the water we use in manufacturing by 20% - and address water impacts in our supply chain.
We aim to make our production facilities as water efficient as possible and we measure performance through our water use ratio.
We monitor our company-wide water use, setting annual targets and identifying opportunities to reduce our consumption.
We’re continuing to invest in water saving systems to make our manufacturing and cleaning processes more water efficient.
We’ll protect the sustainability of the water sources we use for future generations.
To help protect our water sources, all of our 46 production facilities carry out source water vulnerability assessments (SVAs) every five years.
We ensure that 100% of our wastewater is safely returned to nature. Before water is discharged from any of our manufacturing sites, we apply the highest standards of treatment.
We’ll replenish 100% of the water we use in areas of water stress.
Together with The Coca-Cola Company, we continue to replenish the water we use in areas of water stress in partnership with local NGOs and community groups.
In 2020, together with TCCC, we managed 15 community based water replenishment projects in Western Europe. As a result, we were able to replenish 275% of the water we sourced to make our drinks in areas affected by water stress.
Our progress in 2020
Our stories
In 2020, we managed 15 community based water replenishment projects in partnership with The Coca-Cola Company. As a result, we were able to replenish 275% of the water we sourced to make our drinks in areas affected by water stress. In 2020, together with The Rivers Trust and the Coca-Cola Foundation we launched a new three year programme in GB which will help implement a series of critical nature-based solutions and replenish water in some of the most water stressed areas across the country.
In Portugal, we launched “Plantar Água”, a project in partnership with Associacao Natureza Portugal, WWF and the Coca-Cola Foundation. Through the project we will be able to replenish 250 million litres of water a year, in a region devastated by wildfires and water scarcity.
In 2020, we continued to invest in water saving systems. In our production facility in Ghent, Belgium, our evaporative cooling towers were replaced by dry cooling towers, saving 10,670m³ of water annually.