Integrated Water

Resource Management

is inOUR

hands

Integrated Water

Resource Management

is inOUR

hands

Dan BenaSenior Director

Global Sustainable DevelopmentPepsiCo, Inc.

dan.bena@pepsico.com

Calibration: What is a watershed?

“That area of land…within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community.“

--John Wesley PowellScientist Geographer

1834-1902

“A watershed is an area of land that captures water in any form, such as rain, snow, or dew, and drains it to a common water body, i.e., stream, river, or lake.”

--Paul A. DeBarry

Creating an Integrated Watershed Management Plan is simple, right?

Identify Stakeholders,

developpartnerships

Develop comprehensive Watershed Management Plan

Identify regulations

and legal requirements

Perform complete watershed assessment

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Everybody (including companies) uses water within watersheds…

PepsiCo uses approximately

100,000,000,000+ Liters/yearIn direct operations

Industry, globally uses about 20% of the water availableAgriculture, 70-90%

Half of the world’s hospitalizations are due to water-related illnesses.

50% of the world’s population has

access to improved sanitation

63%More people have access to cell

phones than to toilets

Sadly, people (employees, customers, consumers) get sick because of what

happens within watersheds…

of school attendance could be gained each year with investment in WATSAN

443 Million Days

Kids (our future business, government, and NGO leaders) miss school because of lack of water access within watersheds…

Time women spend collecting water for domestic uses

200 MM Hoursin One Day

More time than employees of these companies—combined--work in one week!

Women lose opportunities to do other things due to their personal watershed environment (huge productivity opps)…

200 MILLION LITERS OF

WATER PER SECOND

GLOBALLY TO GROW

FOOD

We have to grow enough food over the

next 40 years

as the world has grown over

the past 8,000 years!

…and a LOT of food is grown within—and depends on--watersheds around the world

(6/10 PepsiCo top materials are from a plant)

So, is it simple? Perhaps PepsiCo Chair and CEO says it best….

Solutions come through partnership:2030 Water Resources Group

“Water Resources Group (WRG) is an innovative and neutral public–private platform for collaboration on water. Working at the invitation of governments, the WRG engages in fact-based, analytical approaches and establishes in-country capacities to help governments achieve sustainable and comprehensive water sector transformation to support their economic growth aspirations.”

40%Global Water Supply-Demand Gap to 2030

Solutions come through partnership:UN CEO Water Mandate

• Public-private initiative – launched by the UN Secretary-General

• Multi-stakeholder: companies, civil society, UN, Governments

• Strategic framework for Corporate Water Sustainability

1. Direct Operations2. Supply Chain-Watershed

Management3. Collective Action4. Public Policy5. Community Engagement6. Transparency

• Call-to-Action by CEOs to Business Leaders Everywhere

Solutions come through partnership:Guide to Water-related Collective Action

Solutions come through partnership:UN CEO Water Mandate Water Action Hub

From education and awareness-

building

To tangible collective action on the ground

Solutions come through partnerships:WBCSD Water Leadership Group

1. Cost effective, credible and operational tools and accelerating watershed-level responses

2. Long term insights for short term responses to the water-energy-food nexus

3. Benefits of water valuation for improved internal business decisions and external stakeholder engagement.

4. Optimizing water re-use

5. Provision of equitable and sustainable access to safe water and sanitation through cross-sector business action

Finally, a little closer to home:PepsiCo and The Nature Conservancy

• Grounded in our commitment to respect water as a human right– safety, sufficiency, acceptability, physical

accessibility, affordability

Closing thought:

Sustainable solutions will ONLY arise through collaboration. No single entity can solve these crises alone!