Global Water Challenge

Through our partnership with Cargill and the Cargill Currents program, we are proud to be making a real difference by addressing water challenges across the world. In West Africa, we established 27 water facilities and boreholes, providing more than 95,800 people with safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) resources. This initiative is particularly impactful for women and girls, giving them more time for education, work, and community development. Read more about our joint efforts in Cargill’s 2024 Impact Report https://lnkd.in/df8D4P5Q

Our goal? Facilitate access to safe drinking water and sanitation for 500,000 people by 2030. Our current focus is on communities in Brazil, Cameroon, Ghana & Côte d'Ivoire. The journey continues—watch this space: https://lnkd.in/dDhiz4Yd

Through our partnership with Cargill and the Cargill Currents program, we are proud to be making a real difference by addressing water challenges across the world. In West Africa, we established 27 water facilities and boreholes, providing more than 95,800 people with safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) resources. This initiative is particularly impactful for women and girls, giving them more time for education, work, and community development. Read more about our joint efforts in Cargill’s 2024 Impact Report https://lnkd.in/df8D4P5Q

On this International Day of Rural Women, we recognize rural women's significant contributions to the agriculture labor force and particularly the coffee- and tea-growing communities in Tanzania, East Africa. Through our impactful partnership with The Starbucks Foundation, and our project’s targeted interventions, we are promoting health, economic empowerment, and building sustainable livelihoods for rural women from these coffee- and tea-growing communities in Tanzania. #InternationalDayofRuralWomen #WomenEmpowerment

This Global Handwashing Day, we are proud to highlight our partnership with Cargill through the Cargill Currents platform, and our collective efforts to promote health and hygiene education in communities around the world. #GlobalHandwashingDay #WASH #HandHygiene

The U.S. Water Partnership announced today that it plans to expand it's pioneering Water Smart Engagements (WiSE) Program to increase global cooperation on urban water security. Success of its U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities program offers blueprint for high impact, peer-to-peer water utility partnerships that advance UN SDG 6. Global Ties U.S. U.S. Department of State Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Department of State's Office of Global Partnerships Water Environment Federation #GWC #GlobalWaterChallenge #GETF #GlobalEnvironmentandTechnologyFoundation #USDepartmentofState  #OfficeofGlobalPartnerships  #BureauofOceansandInternationalEnvironmentalandScientificAffairs  #WEF #GlobalTiesUSglobalTiesUS #DCWater  #TheWaterCouncilMilwaukee  #CleanWaterServices  #MiamiDadeWaterSewerDepartment  #SanFranciscoPublicUtilitiesCommission  #ProvincialWaterworksAuthority  #SaigonWaterCorporation #VientianeCityOfficeforManagementandServices  #MetroCebuWaterDistrict

𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗰𝗮-𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗮 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 $𝟮𝟱𝗠𝗠+ 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 The Coca-Cola Company in Africa (www.Coca-ColaCompany.com) and its bottling partners Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA), EQUATORIAL COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY (ECCBC) and Coca-Cola HBC announced a USD $25 million investment to help address critical water-related challenges in local communities in 20 African countries, starting this year through 2030. The work will be led by Global Water Challenge (GWC) and implemented by a consortium of partners, including The Nature Conservancy, The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). This water initiative will build upon The Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF)’s 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 (𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐍), a groundbreaking collaboration with key partners and co-funders which helped improve access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene for 6 million people across African countries between 2009 and 2019. Through 120 projects, the initiative positively impacted homes, schools and healthcare clinics in more than 4,000 communities "One in three Africans face water insecurity. The Global Water Challenge and ‘The Coca-Cola System’s Africa Water Stewardship Initiative’ partner coalition will seek to improve water security for millions across the African continent, helping advance community health and resilience through abundant, clean water. We applaud Coca-Cola’s continued leadership on African water security" said Monica Ellis, CEO of GWC. This effort will protect and enhance the health of important watersheds and help improve access to water and sanitation services in local communities. We will have projects in Algeria, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Egypt, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Recognizing that partnerships are critical to support this work, The Company and its bottlers are collaborating with governments, businesses and civil society organizations to design and implement strategic interventions. In addition to supporting the company’s water strategy, this effort also aims to contribute to advancing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 6, which focuses on ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation. Read more via the official announcement (https://lnkd.in/evYwxjmc).

Global Water Challenge and #Cargill announce the expansion of their Cargill Currents partnership platform with a renewed investment. #WorldWaterWeek

Creating impact around the world with our partner #Cargill, today we are highlighting our efforts in supporting an Indigenous community from a remote water scarce region in Brazil. Through the Cargill Currents partnership interventions, this community has clean water access for the first time. This #WorldWaterWeek we are spotlighting the impact of our project partnership with Cargill across five continents while celebrating our progress and commitment to positively impact 150,000 people with access to safe water and sanitation by the end of 2024. 

In Ghana, West Africa, young Irene and her community are experiencing transformative changes in their daily lives. Thanks to the clean water access infrastructure provided by Cargill Currents, Irene and her peers now have reliable access to safe water.     This #WorldWaterWeek we are spotlighting the impact of our partnership with Cargill Currents across five continents while celebrating our progress and commitment to positively impact 150,000 people in priority communities and basins by the end of 2024.