PepsiCo: how leak detectives helped meet water targets

Published on September 11, 2013 04:54 by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Business

Liese Dallbauman, PepsiCo's director of water stewardship, first heard the story of a self-identified "leak detective" when visiting a company plant in South America. An employee there had convinced his boss that saving water would also save enough money to pay for the employee's time spent tracking and repairing leaks. During a subsequent visit to a beverage plant in Belgium, a diligent employee showed Dallbauman mobile phone footage of a faucet in a women's bathroom that continued running even though it was designed to shut off automatically.

There are other enthusiastic leak detectives, or more commonly, organised "leak teams" in hundreds of PepsiCo beverage and snack plants around the world, all of them searching for ways to cut back on water use. Thanks in part to their vigilance PepsiCo has been able to meet its target of improving water efficiency across its operations by 20% per unit of production from 2006 levels, four years ahead of schedule.

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