Water conservation by Industry – A case study of PepsiCo, Roha

This presentation describes the vision and strategy of PepsiCo, Roha, Maharashtra and its initiatives in the area of water conservation. The plant with three filling lines (bottling and canning) has tried to achieve positive water balance through water savings at plant level, water initiatives at community level and by promoting water conservation measures in agriculture.

It has been able to achieve an annual savings of 750 million litres so far. In its Aquafina line PepsiCo, Roha re-uses RO reject after softening for boiler and utility purposes apart from its initiatives in glass bottle line where it has achieved zero effluent discharge (except during rainy season) and zero ETP sludge discharge.

This work won the CII-GBC national award for excellence in water management for the year 2009, in the within the fence category.