Water management at beverage plants: Cervecería, CBC and Coca-Cola
- Water for industry
- Industrial water, wells and discharges
- Audited
The model is an own source plus in-house treatment and reuse. Cervecería Centro Americana (Finca El Zapote, zona 2) reports 'a saving of 70% of the water in the industrial process' through recycling and consumption control, reusing water in other plant services; the earlier claim that it sited there for its own springs was withdrawn because the page does not mention it. CBC (the PepsiCo/AB InBev bottler) publishes water-efficiency and watershed programs in its sustainability reports (2021, 2022) and a sustainability-linked financing framework, but the ratio of liters of water per liter of beverage was not found in the open. The Coca-Cola System Guatemala reports water-replenishment projects with the Coca-Cola Foundation, with more than 10,000 beneficiaries (a promotional claim, 2025).
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Figures
- In-process water saving, Cervecería Centro Americana
- 70%
- Beneficiaries of water replenishment, Coca-Cola System
- >10,000
Caveat
Sources
Organizations named in the answer
Related records
- Absence of a general water law and national extraction fee
- Right to drill a well and ownership of the water (Civil Code)
- Industrial self-supply and the 2,000 wells of Guatemala's valley
- Procedure to drill an industrial well in the metropolitan area
- Cost and regulation of the municipal well-drilling license
- MARN environmental license costs and categories
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