As part of CCEP’s This is Forward Sustainability Action Plan, we have a target to replenish 100% of the water used in our beverages, where it is sourced from areas of water stress, by 2020. In Germany, our SVAs, together with water stress mapping from the WRI’s Aqueduct project have shown that we operate in areas of water stress in 3 sites across two river basins where our manufacturing operations there. As a result, we have established a water replenishment programme with The Coca-Cola Foundation and EUROPARC. Together we’ve been working to dredge and restore the water storage and filtering capacity of the Alte Elbe Klieken river oxbow.

Project Results

The aim of the project was to restore a part of the oxbow that had become silted up by removing sediment and allowing water from the Elbe River flood flows to refill it. This increases biodiversity and benefits the natural habitat for protected species and general wildlife. It also helps to restore some of the natural flood retention volume of the Elbe river basin. In 2017, we replenished 37,300 m3 of water through this Water Replenishment project.