This World Water Day, PepsiCo is celebrating reaching our global goal of a 25% improvement in operational water-use efficiency in high water-risk areas (compared to a 2015 baseline) two years early. We’ve saved billions of liters of water through initiatives such as:
- Scaling a new approach to how we wash corn when making food products such as Tostitos, Fritos and Doritos to more than 100 global manufacturing lines within a year, with potential to save more than 640 million liters of water annually.
- Implementing membrane bioreactor technology at 21 manufacturing sites globally, including 14 in high water-risk areas, to purify process water to drinking-level standards for reuse in operations, allowing a site to reduce its freshwater demand by an average of 70%.
- Taking the water that's naturally found in potatoes and using it to help run food manufacturing facilities. Implemented at sites in India, Mexico, Poland and Thailand, this innovative technology developed by PepsiCo Research & Development teams captures and treats vapor that is released by potatoes when they are cooked for products such as Lay's and converts it to drinkable water that is used to help run manufacturing facilities. This process can save a single site up to 60 million liters of water per year.
WHY THIS MATTERS:
Water is precious and we should all treat it that way. Learn how you can be part of the solution TODAY with these simple water actions from the United Nations.
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