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PepsiCo celebrates World Water Day

PepsiCo water conversation
March 24, 2022

As part of its pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) transformation, PepsiCo Inc. announced several new innovations, investments and partnerships toward its ambition to be Net Water Positive by 2030, aiming to replenish more water than the company uses. This includes developing a new technology to recover more than 50% of the water used in its potato chip manufacturing, investing nearly $2 million for the Colorado River Basin, extending safe water access to 8 million more people in 2021, and signing a new partnership to scale a groundbreaking drip irrigation technology across 10,000 hectares (25,000 acres) by 2025.

"PepsiCo has just nine years to reach our ambitious 2030 Net Water Positive goals, so there is no time to waste,” said Jim Andrew, chief sustainability officer at PepsiCo. “We’re taking a look at our full value chain from top to bottom and asking, how can we leverage the innovation and creativity that exists within our company to ensure that the water resources PepsiCo uses are better off a decade from now than they are today?"

Since the company's "Net Water Positive" announcement in August 2021, more than a dozen new programs have been created to advance the company’s water-use efficiency, replenishment, and safe water access efforts. Here are some of those efforts:


New technology recovers over 50% of water used in potato chip manufacturing

PepsiCo’s Global Research & Development team has successfully proven a groundbreaking method for condensing and treating the steam evaporated from its fryers to recover more than 50% of the water used in potato chip manufacturing lines. The energy recovered from the condensation can also be used for other manufacturing purposes, such as cooling part of the plant or converting it to electricity, reducing the plant’s energy needs. 

The technology is implemented at its facility in Kolkata, India, where the proof-of-concept showed the approach could save ~60 million liters of water a year. Over the next seven years, the technology is expected to be adopted at nearly 30 potato chip manufacturing plants in high-water-risk areas.  


Nearly $2 million in investments for the Colorado River Basin

The American West, and the Colorado River Basin in particular, is now among the world’s most water-stressed regions. To help advance its Net Water Positive goals in this critical watershed, PepsiCo has invested nearly $2 million in two innovative partnerships.

PepsiCo’s North American businesses are partnering with the non-profit Trout Unlimited to reestablish connectivity between two segments of the Colorado River that had been blocked by the Windy Gap Reservoir near Denver. By constructing a mile-long channel to bypass the Windy Gap Reservoir, the initiative is expected to restore perennial flows throughout the river, create 18 acres of new wetlands, restore 50 acres of riverside habitat and replenish approximately 380 million gallons of water per year. 

Expanded safe water access to additional 8 million people in 2021

In 2021, the PepsiCo Foundation expanded the reach of its safe water access program by an additional 8 million people. Since the effort began in 2006, the company has helped provide safe water access to approximately 68 million people, with a goal of reaching 100 million by 2030. To continue to advance this goal, the Foundation is granting $1.5 million over three years to two new water stewardship programs in Latin America and Nigeria. 

Building on a decade-long, successful partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)’s Aqua Fund, the Foundation is committing an additional $500,000 to improve water access and sanitation services across the Latin America region, bringing the Foundation’s total investment to over $10 million. In Nigeria, the Foundation is granting $1 million to WaterAid to support the construction of water supply and sanitation facilities and the development of programs to promote good hygiene practices. 

 
Partnered with N-Drip to scale unique drip irrigation technology

Around the world, farmers use flood or trench irrigation to bring water to their crops, which floods the field at regular intervals, losing up to 70%t of the water used. A replacement for flood or trench irrigation, Israeli-headquartered N-Drip’s high-efficiency irrigation system is powered by gravity and harnesses the water-saving benefits of high-pressure drip irrigation, but with low energy, operating and maintenance demands—making it more accessible to all types of farmers and nearly all types of crops. 

PepsiCo has piloted N-Drip’s technology in India, Vietnam and the U.S., and saw improved crop yields, reduced fertilizer usage and 50% less water consumed compared to flood irrigation. Together the companies aim to help farmers adopt the technology across 25,000 acres by 2025.

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