USA | In the lead-up to World Water Day, PepsiCo, Inc. announced it achieved two of its 2025 pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) water goals.
PepsiCo’s replenishment progress is powered by dozens of locally led, community-centered nature-based projects around the world aimed at improving watershed health.
Together, these efforts are returning, restoring, or preserving the volume of water the company draws from high-water-risk areas, improving ecosystem health, strengthening community resilience, and advancing sustainable water management. In 2025, more than 60 active projects helped replenish nearly 29 billion litres of water back into local watersheds.
In 2018, PepsiCo joined the Alliance for Water Stewardship with the aim of adopting the AWS Standard at all company-owned manufacturing facilities in high water-risk regions by the end of 2025, using it as a vehicle for advocacy and to help ensure that freshwater resources in high water-risk locations are available to all water users.
AWS adoption has been led by cross-functional teams of PepsiCo associates who have come together to identify local water risks and evaluate opportunities for the facilities to implement good water stewardship practices.
“Water is a fundamental human right, and yet water scarcity remains a significant global challenge, affecting millions around the world,” said Roberta Barbieri, Global Vice President, Sustainability, Climate and Water, PepsiCo.
“We aim to lead in responsible water stewardship, and we’re proud of what we’ve accomplished so far. But the work doesn’t stop here. As we look ahead to 2030, we’ll continue striving toward our ambitions, to be Net Water Positive and to live up to our vision that wherever we operate, water resources are more sustainable and more resilient because of our presence.”
Reaching 100 percent replenishment and full AWS adoption at company-owned manufacturing facilities in high-water-risk regions strengthens PepsiCo’s progress towards its broader pep+ ambitions, including climate resilience and regenerative agriculture. These water milestones have been assured by a third party.
PepsiCo will now sunset both of these 2025 water targets and continue to focus on its 2030 pep+ ambitions, which include:
- An expanded watershed replenishment goal, aiming to replenish back into the local watershed 100 percent of the water we use, not just in high water-risk PepsiCo-owned facilities, but also franchise bottler manufacturing facilities.
- Improving water-use efficiency by reaching average water-use efficiency ratios of 1.4 litres/litre of production in beverages sites and 1.7 litres/kilogram of production in convenient foods sites for 100 percent of high water-risk PepsiCo and franchise bottler manufacturing facilities.
- Reach 100 million people with safe water access.
PepsiCo will report on its progress against these goals later this year.
