Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is a United States-based entertainment and streaming company headquartered in Los Gatos, California. Its business operations encompass streaming, original films and series, licensing, gaming, advertising-supported plans, and live programming. The company's water relevance is primarily tied to its operations and funded environmental projects, with a lower water footprint than companies in more water-intensive industries.

Netflix's most significant water-related impact is indirect, achieved through support for projects that provide watershed, water treatment, and irrigation benefits via its environmental credit portfolio. The Scott River–Whiskey IFM project in California, highlighted in the 2022 ESG report, links Netflix's climate financing to watershed restoration and fire prevention. In 2025, Netflix retired 34,793 metric tons from this project. The water-related value is associated with improved forest and watershed conditions, particularly in regions where fire risk threatens water quality, runoff patterns, and ecosystem stability.

The ABC Norte project in Brazil introduces a public health and water infrastructure dimension. In 2025, Netflix retired 80,068 metric tons from this project, which lists benefits including water treatment facilities, development of public health services, sustainable development, and reduced illegal logging. Additionally, the Uttar Pradesh solar irrigation pump project demonstrates a direct connection between water and energy use: farmers transition from diesel-powered groundwater pumping to solar irrigation services, paying only for the water volume consumed and benefiting from tariffs that are 20 to 40 percent lower than those for diesel pumping. However, it does not report specific volume savings.