World Water Day 2025 – Partnering to Deliver Impact

In celebration of World Water Day, we are highlighting our partnership with the National Audubon Society in South Florida focused on wetland rehabilitation.

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, flooding and drought.

Our partnership with the National Audubon Society in South Florida focuses on restoring the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary’s marshes and wet prairies. This multi-year process aims to improve water resources and encourage biologically diverse, high functioning wetlands so there are multiple benefits for water, nature and the surrounding ecosystems.

Photo credit: RJ Wiley/Audubon

The Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is a 13,000-acre wetland that contains rare cypress forests and wildlife habitat. Overgrowth of invasive shrubs has resulted in habitat loss, increased impacts from drought, declining 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

Collaborations with local NGOs are critical as we rely on their expertise and relationships to help create impact at scale and do more than what we can do alone. Our collaboration with the National Audubon Society in South Florida serves as an example of convening the right partners and leveraging distinct expertise to help improve water resources and deliver wide-reaching impacts for water and surrounding wetlands.

This initiative is one of 17 water replenishment projects across North America that we have supported since 2016. Additional projects we have supported include:

• California: we are working to improve irrigation practices for farmers
• Texas: we are helping to create new wetlands
• Mexico: we are providing technical assistance to farmers

To learn more about these specific projects and our water stewardship efforts, download our 2023 Corporate Responsibility Report.