Pepsico Reaches 2025 Goal on Water-use Efficiency in High Water-risk Areas Two Years Early

India, March 22, 2024 – PepsiCo introduced that it reached its 2025 world objective of a 25% enchancment in operational water-use effectivity in excessive water-risk areas, two years forward of schedule1. In addition, the corporate was acknowledged by CDP, the worldwide environmental non-profit, on the 2023 CDP A List for management in company transparency and efficiency on water safety – placing PepsiCo in the highest 0.5% of all 21,000 firms CDP scored.

As a part of pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) – the corporate’s strategic end-to-end transformation – PepsiCo will proceed working in direction of further water stewardship ambitions, together with aiming to be web water optimistic by 2030.

“Water is a basic human proper and but water insecurity stays a big world problem with billions of individuals missing entry to protected water,” stated Jim Andrew, Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo. “That’s why good water stewardship is so essential and has lengthy been a precedence for PepsiCo and the communities we serve. Our imaginative and prescient is that wherever in the world we function, water sources will likely be in a greater state than earlier than we arrived. And whereas we’re proud to have achieved this objective in excessive water-risk areas two years early, we are going to proceed our unyielding focus on assembly our 2030 ambitions.”

Guided by PepsiCo optimistic, PepsiCo India goals at supporting water safety for its enterprise, pure ecosystems, and native communities by – enhancing water use effectivity in operations, offering protected water entry to individuals, replenishing greater than 100% of water used and adopting the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) commonplace in excessive water-risk areas the place PepsiCo operates. Keeping these efforts in thoughts, PepsiCo India together with its companions have undertaken the next initiatives throughout areas in the nation:

Through the Sustainable Water Resource Development and Management (SWRDM) program in collaboration with Alternative Development Initiatives (ADI), positively impacted over 70,000 people and, created the potential for 1,000 million liters of groundwater recharge by the development of 33 rainwater harvesting buildings in areas like Sangrur (Punjab), Pune (Maharashtra), and Mathura (Uttar Pradesh).

PepsiCo Foundation is dedicated to offering Safe Water Access to over 100 million individuals worldwide by 2030. Out of this 68 million have already been coated by numerous partnerships with NGOs and multilateral businesses, with 27 million beneficiaries from India.

Taking the water that’s naturally discovered in potatoes and utilizing it to assist run meals manufacturing services. Implemented at websites in India, Mexico, Poland and Thailand, this revolutionary know-how developed by PepsiCo Research & Development groups captures and treats vapor that’s launched by potatoes when they’re cooked for merchandise akin to Lay’s and converts it to drinkable water that’s used to assist run manufacturing services. This course of can save a single web site as much as 60 million liters of water per 12 months. The challenge goals to get well over 50% of water used in potato chip manufacturing crops in West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh.

“Driven by our imaginative and prescient of PepsiCo Positive, we’re making important strides in direction of water stewardship and sustainability at PepsiCo India. As we rejoice World Water Day, we take pleasure in our steady efforts that reach past conservation to actively replenishing water sources, adopting sustainable practices, and empowering communities. Through initiatives just like the Sustainable Water Resource Development and Management and Safe Water Access applications, in collaboration with Alternative Development Initiatives, WaterSupport & Pandit Jagat Ram Memorial FORCE Trust respectively, we’ve positively impacted lives and ecosystems throughout areas like Punjab, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. As we march in direction of our objective of turning into web water optimistic by 2030, we stay steadfast in our mission, touching the lives of communities, wherever we go.” – Yashika Singh, Head – Corporate Affairs Communication and Sustainability, PepsiCo India