Our bottled-water business aims to lead the regeneration of local water cycles which means to help nature retain, through the implementation of various projects, more water than we use.

We expanded our current efforts to conserve water beyond our own bottled-water operations and increased our collaboration with partners to identify and support local solutions.

Our progress

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Learn more in the Environmental Disclosures section of our 2025 Non-Financial Statement (pdf, 18Mb).

Our key actions

Alliance for Water Stewardship

Nestlé Waters & Premium Beverages wants to play an active role in helping conserve water resources everywhere we operate. To do so, we will work with partners at a local level to develop tailored solutions.

We use a robust approach built on five steps: saving water, protecting the quality of natural water sources and catchment, sharing our knowledge, and contributing to communities.

By the end of 2025, 39 sites of Nestlé Waters & Premium Beverages have been certified sites by AWS.

Key terms explained

Water stewardship
The Alliance for Water Stewardship defines water stewardship as the use of water that is socially and culturally equitable, environmentally sustainable and economically beneficial, achieved through a stakeholder-inclusive process that includes both site- and catchment-based actions. Read more about water stewardship (pdf, 19Mb).

Helping regenerate water cycles

We are using our expertise to help advance the regeneration of local water cycles by identifying and implementing projects in areas where we operate. We are designing projects which enable local watersheds to capture more water than is used in bottling operations, while helping to protecting natural habitats. Projects are selected near Nestlé Waters & Premium Beverages sites and tailored to address specific local challenges. These are based on a mix of nature-based and technical solutions to improve water quality or quantity and create a positive water impact.

The projects support:

Reforestation efforts to help prevent run-off
Wetland restoration and rainwater harvesting
Drip irrigation to reduce water withdrawals

All of the projects are measurable using the World Resources Institute's Volumetric Water Benefit Accounting methodology. This provides consistency in analyzing water management activities and helps ensure that such activities address current and future shared water needs and issues.

Regenerating local water cycles to benefit nature and communities

While climate change, drought and water stress are global issues, solutions must be local and holistic

We are working beyond our factories on tailored projects and partnerships that protect and retain water, respecting the differences of each watershed

Why watersheds matter

Watersheds refer to the area of land from which all surface run-off ﬂows through a sequence of streams, rivers, aquifers and lakes into the sea or another outlet. They are essential to communities, agriculture, industry and biodiversity

Our projects help solve shared water challenges for generations to come and enable local watersheds to capture as much water as is used in Nestlé’s bottling operations

At the end of 2025, projects were in place at all Nestlé Waters sites, focusing on Water Quantity, Water Quality and Biodiversity

All our bottling sites are certified by the leading global alliance for water stewardship

14 million m³ volumetric water benefit* delivered at the end of 2025 *retained and protected in the watersheds

Our pledge is to lead the regeneration of local water cycles everywhere we bottle water

Water infrastructure projects

Education on
water protection

Drip irrigation

Restoring canals

Water Quantity Water Quality Biodiversity

Cleaning up
canals

Waste water
management

Reforestation

Restoring aquatic
ecosystems

Water benefit calculated according to the VWBA methodology

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Buxton

Derbyshire, UK

The river Ecclesbourne had been diverted into a weir, preventing local fish from migrating and impacting overall biodiversity. Our team is supporting the Ecclesbourne's restoration back to its original channel, bypassing the weir and opening over 28 km of the river and its tributaries for many fish species. 
Vittel

Vosges, France

River restoration and renaturation projects in Vosges, France
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Nestlé Pure Life

Benha, Egypt

The Al-Siniti canal had become polluted and silted, with poorly maintained side walls. Our teams supported the removal of waste and aquatic weeds, and stabilization of the sides to prevent water leakage, cleaning the water and making more available for local communities and farmers downstream.
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Eco de los Andes

Tunuyan river, Argentina

Run-off from free-flowing wells was being lost before it could be used by the local community. Working with the Irrigation Department of Mendoza, we supported the installation of manually closing butterfly valves to minimize losses of water.
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Nestlé Pure Life

Khanom Chin canal, Thailand

Inadequate use of agricultural inputs and poor maintenance of a canal had resulted in low water quality near the villages Ban Mai and Ban Yang Ngam. Our team partnered with the local Youth Water Guardian initiative, to establish a learning center and a campaign on the use of fertilizers and pesticides, waste removal and better wastewater management, improving water quality along 21 km of this waterway.

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Nestlé Aquarel

Herrera del Duque, Spain

The community identified pressures on biodiversity and the diminishing water level of a cherished local stream. The team supported the plantation of trees, accompanied by sophisticated irrigation channels to enhance biodiversity, reduce evaporation and protect the habitat of an endangered fish species.
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La Vie

Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Provincial water management in the Mekong Delta has not kept pace with local agriculture and development demands leading to pollution and water stress in Tan A City. We provided water supplier LAWACO with financial and technical support to treat more surface water instead of groundwater. This will increase the resilience of the watershed, promote biodiversity and serve as a component of a wider water regeneration program in the delta.
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Naleczowianka

Vystra river, Poland

Degraded water quality was affecting the river, downstream from the municipal wastewater treatment plant. We funded the installation of a UV lamp to improve the water quality before it leaves the municipal wastewater treatment plant, and enable improvements in water quality in the river and its ecosystems.

Collaborating to solve the challenge

Water is a shared resource, so caring for it must be done through collaborative actions. Through partnerships in the locations where we operate, we can make a difference to inspire regenerative water approaches.

To review the relevance of our Nestlé Waters & Premium Beverages' projects, we have established an external panel of non-governmental organizations and academic bodies. We continue to provide this panel with full transparency on our water usage at each of our sites and on what our projects aim to contribute.