KDP’s Commitment to Water Stewardship
Water is the primary ingredient in our products and used across our operations. As a leading beverage company, we have a responsibility to help address local and global water challenges, particularly in those areas that are more prone to water challenges like scarcity, water stress and drought.
Partnering for Water Replenishment
We collaborate with nonprofit and other industry partners on projects in key regions that focus on water availability and quality.
Agriculture Water Conservation in California: KDP is working with precision irrigation solutions company Oriba Netafim to incentivize farmers to implement drip irrigation on farms in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley watersheds, which can lead to state-of-the-art crop management practices and robust reporting and data collection. In 2024, installation of drip irrigation was completed on 469 acres of farmland across three different farms, resulting in an estimated 700 megaliters of water benefit to the San Joaquin and Sacramento River basins for the partial year of operation.
Wetland Rehabilitation in Florida: KDP partners with the National Audubon Society in South Florida to restore Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary’s marshes and wet prairies via a multi-year restoration process to improve water resources and encourage biologically diverse, high functioning wetlands. Overgrowth of native-nuisance shrubs has resulted in habitat loss, intensified impacts from drought, decreased water quality and increased risk of wildfire. Our partnership contributes to the remediation of these issues through the removal of invasive and native-nuisance plant species, which in turn improves the ability of the marsh to recharge, provide habitat for wildlife and support native vegetation. Since 2022, the project has reached the important milestone of over 1,000 acres under restoration.
Photo credit: RJ Wiley/Audubon
Wetland Creation in Texas: Water scarcity in the Trinity River Basin leaves little to no water in-stream dedicated to wildlife habitat. In partnership with Ducks Unlimited, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Water Action Collaborative (managed by Texan by Nature), KDP and its partners supported the construction of 111 acres of wetlands by installing water control infrastructure to enhance the water holding capacity of the Wildcat Marsh on Richland Creek Wildlife Management Area. Completed in 2024, the project has enhanced wildlife habitat and is cleaning and replenishing nearly 54 million gallons of water each year before it flows back into the Trinity River.
Agricultural Interventions in Mexico: KDP is supporting Cauce Bajio, the Guanajuato Water Fund, in its work with local farmers to promote improved irrigation management practices. This includes land leveling, which is a process to efficiently distribute irrigation water, and targeted irrigation systems performance recommendations for farmers. This initiative positively impacts water quality and availability for the Lerma River which flows into Lake Chapala, near Guadalajara. In the Spring-Summer cycle of 2024, technical assistance and land leveling activities took place on over 150 hectares of land across 15 different farms, adding to the more than 40 hectares of land where activities took place in the Autumn-Winter growing season. The estimated benefit to local water basins in 2024 was over 200 megaliters.
Enhancing Water Security & Access
We collaborate with nonprofit organizations on projects that focus on water security and access.
Safe Water Access in Canada: KDP Canada has teamed up with One Drop Foundation as a founding Water Impact Partner of the Indigenous Water Allyship initiative, a multi-year program that aims to improve living conditions and health via increased access to safe water in First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities. In 2024, the program supported nine youth in their water-related artistic projects, fostering youth leadership, participation and dialogue on water rights and stewardship, engaging more than 120,000 people. In addition, KDP Canada co-hosted a workshop at World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden, along with One Drop and the Canada Water Agency, to introduce the Indigenous Water Allyship Program and five Young Indigenous Ambassadors from the program who shared their perspectives on water-related social and environmental issues in their respective communities.
Improved Water Security in Central America: Between 2022-2024, KDP supported the Blue Harvest Regenerative program which has helped community organizations across 18 micro-watersheds in Honduras and Nicaragua protect the water resources and improve water security for more than 38,000 people. The program has enhanced watershed protection through the installation of more water-efficient coffee processing equipment, the application of practices that improve the soil’s capacity to filter and store rainwater and the optimization of fertilizer application to minimize contamination of local waterways.
Photo Credit: Oscar Leiva/Silverlight
