Water Reduction and Stewardship

Mission 2025: Water Reduction and Stewardship 

We have completed Mission 2025. This page shares some of the highlights from the Water Reduction and Stewardship commitment. You can see the final status of all six sustainability pillars in our Mission 2025 performance.

Mission Refresh  is the next chapter of our sustainability journey. It focuses on four flagship commitments – climate, water, biodiversity, and communities – with clear, measurable targets to keep us on track. Learn more about our refreshed sustainability targets in Mission Refresh. 

From 2026, we are working towards new targets to safeguard water resources. 

Our Mission Refresh targets for water

Protect and restore this essential resource by:

• Maintaining 100% of wastewater treated and returned to nature.
• Reducing our Water Use Ratio by 5% by 2035 (compared with the 2025 baseline).

We use water in every part of our business: it is the main component of our drinks, is needed to grow core ingredients such as sugar and fruit, and helps us to clean, wash and sanitise our production equipment. We recognise the need to protect this valuable resource, especially in areas of our operations where water is scarce or at risk.

In 2025, we invested €10.9 million for projects related to water optimisation and wastewater treatment upgrades across the Group, including in Italy, Nigeria and Egypt. 

Water stewardship community projects

During 2025, we launched new water stewardship projects in all remaining high‑priority locations, including Port Harcourt and Asejire in Nigeria and Aeghion in Greece. By year end, all 19 of our identified water‑risk areas had active community water initiatives (up from 16 in 2024), fulfilling our Mission 2025 goal to help secure water availability for every community in our at‑risk territories.

In Greece, we launched a new water‑saving community initiative in Aeghion. In partnership with the Municipality of Aeghialeia, Global Water Partnership‑Mediterranean (GWP Med) and Aigialeia DEYA (Municipal Water Supply and Sewerage Company), we are upgrading the local water network to improve efficiency and reduce losses. Once completed, the project will save 100 million litres of water annually – equivalent to the yearly consumption of around 1,700 residents. Aeghion has been home to our AVRA natural mineral water plant for more than 36 years, and this initiative further strengthens its long‑standing sustainability performance.

Water reduction in our operations 

We are investing in improving standards across our plants to ensure they adopt best practice water efficiency management. Over 2025, we rolled out new water-saving technologies, such as closed-circuit reverse osmosis, expanding water recovery from backwashing processes, and water consumption for utilities.

Our Mission 2025 objective is to reduce the water we use in production plants located in water‑risk areas by 20% compared with our 2017 baseline.

While we are yet to achieve this target, we have made substantial progress and are committed to advancing water efficiency across our operations. ISO 46001 certification also progressed substantially – in 2025, about 88% of our 60 beverage production sites were certified to the ISO 46001 water efficiency standard, up from 42% in 2024. We aim to achieve Group-wide ISO 46001 certification in 2026.

Innovating and collaborating to safeguard water in Greece

Returning the full amount of water we use in our production processes and beverages to nature and communities is one of our key sustainability goals in the water-risk areas where we operate. 

An innovative smart technology system introduced at the Municipal Water Treatment Plant in Schimatari (with the Mornos Reservoir in the area shown in the accompanying image) is helping safeguard vital water resources in Greece. Delivered through the Zero Drop programme, the solution recovers 100% of the water lost during filter backwashing, saving around 15% of the total raw water being processed at the Plant – enough to meet the annual needs of approximately 6,500 people. It also reduces energy use by 7-10%. The project is funded by The Coca‑Cola Foundation, Coca‑Cola Tria Epsilon, Coca‑Cola Europe and is implemented in collaboration with GWP Med and Tanagra Municipality. It shows how cross-sector partnerships and smart innovation can build long-term water resilience for local communities.  Read more about our water management programmes and approach

Our Action on Water helps to support the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:

• Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation.
• Goal 14: Life below Water.
• Goal 15: Life on Land.