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Information Technology
Quincy, Washington, United States
In collaboration with the local municipality, Microsoft established the Quincy Water Reuse Utility to recycle cooling water from data center operations. This initiative reduced the company's potable water use in the region by 97% and supplies 1.5 million cubic meters of water annually for community drinking water needs.
Information Technology
United States, India, Costa Rica, Mexico
In 2024, Intel returned and restored 106% of its freshwater withdrawals through a combination of efficient water management, water reuse, municipal collaboration, and watershed restoration projects.
Information Technology
Arizona, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Costa Rica, Mexico, India, Malaysia
By the end of 2025, it had funded 48 water restoration projects. These projects restored about 2.937 billion gallons in 2024 and 2.851 billion gallons in 2025.
Information Technology
Austin, Texas, United States
Apple achieved net-zero water use for cooling by integrating onsite wastewater reuse, condensate recovery, and stormwater capture. This system conserves up to 60 million gallons of freshwater annually and saves 28 million kilowatt-hours of energy each year.
Information Technology
Waukee, Iowa, United States
The site is undertaking a 221-acre onsite wetland and native prairie pothole restoration project, capturing stormwater, recharging groundwater, improving local water quality, and restoring native habitats.
Information Technology
Nongstoin and Umiam Lake, India
Clearbot's electric boats identify and collect floating waste from waterways while generating geotagged pollution data. In India, Clearbot removed 1.2 tons of waste per month in Nongstoin and collected 15 tons from Umiam Lake over three months.
Information Technology
Hyderabad, India
The company operates a water treatment plant there that reuses treated wastewater for landscape irrigation. NVIDIA also captures rainwater in bioswales and uses reclaimed water for cooling and irrigation.
Information Technology
Richardson, Texas, United States
TI improved its reuse performance, reusing 14,383 megaliters of water in 2025 and increasing its reuse rate from 31% in 2024 to 35% in 2025.
Information Technology
Wusong River basin, China
In fiscal 2024, Cisco joined the AWS Impact Accelerator project at nine sites in the Wusong River basin in China. The project supported participating sites in understanding their shared catchment and preparing for AWS Standard certification.
Information Technology
Liège, Belgium
In Belgium, Cisco helped Compagnie Intercommunale Liégeoise des Eaux build an IoT telecom network for a smart water system spanning 3,500 kilometers of pipes, serving about half a million people.
Information Technology
Colombia
The Matavén project in Colombia protects over 800 rivers and streams and safeguards extensive forest areas.
Information Technology
Global
The company has developed water resiliency action plans for 100% of these locations, addressing climate-related flooding, drought, and water scarcity, using the World Resources Institute Aqueduct tool to assess water risk.
Information Technology
Taiwan and China
In Taiwan, the company recycled rainwater during the rainy season for irrigation, using 500-ton tanks and saving approximately 2,000 tons of water from June to November 2024. Reclaimed water was also used for toilet flushing at sites in both Taiwan and China, saving over 6,000 tons of water in 2024.
Information Technology
Southern Taiwan Science Park, Taiwan
In 2024, these fabs used 26 billion liters of recycled water. The report credits much of this progress to TSMC's reclaimed water plant in Southern Taiwan Science Park, which began supplying water at volume in 2023.
Information Technology
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
The site installed closed-loop water circulation units, eliminating water consumption in a process area and saving 900,000 gallons annually. Broadcom also upgraded the reverse osmosis system.
Information Technology
São Paulo, Brazil
Salesforce supported Conservation International's Conservador das Águas project in the Jaguari River Basin, a vital water source for nearly 9 million people in São Paulo. The project restores springs and freshwater ecosystems, increases native vegetation, and creates ecological corridors.
Information Technology
Mexico City, Mexico
This included Conservation International's restoration of the Xochimilco wetland and reforestation in the Cutzamala and Moctezuma watersheds through the Arbor Day Foundation and Nación Verde.
Information Technology
Rural groundwater-dependent communities
The Call for Code initiative recognized Saaf Water as the 2021 top-prize winner, supporting the development of an accessible water quality sensor and analytics platform for rural communities dependent on groundwater.
Information Technology
Penang, Malaysia
In partnership with Water Watch Penang, this initiative enabled six schools to collect and reuse rainwater onsite. In the first year following installation, the schools collected an estimated 500,000 liters of water, and educational programs reached more than 1,400 students.
Information Technology
Springfield and Eaton, Ohio, United States
In 2023, the company installed a water reclamation system at its Springfield facility, resulting in a 50% reduction in city water use at the water purification plant. In 2025, Lam implemented a similar system in Eaton, Ohio, saving over 6 million gallons of water since its inception.
Information Technology
Idaho, Virginia, Higashi-Hiroshima, Taoyuan City
In FY24, the company reused and recycled 74.883 million cubic meters of water and achieved 12.319 million cubic meters of water restoration benefits, a total of 87.202 million cubic meters — exceeding its total annual water withdrawal of 58.182 million cubic meters.
Information Technology
Global
In FY25, Oracle consumed 801.9 million liters of potable water, a decrease from 823.8 million liters in FY24 — a reduction of approximately 21.9 million liters, or 2.7%.
Information Technology
Hyderabad, India
In 2025, the site implemented water conservation practices aimed at reducing freshwater dependence and enhancing reuse efficiency, including utilizing softener-plant water in secondary applications.
Information Technology
India
Qualcomm highlighted a broader India-based water technology initiative through Nimble Vision's AI platform, Ni-The Water Saviour, which employs IoT and vision-based technology to monitor water conservation, quality, and usability for communities, industries, and smart cities.
Communication Services
Waltham Cross, United Kingdom
Google's data center water risk framework assesses local water scarcity and depletion risks prior to site construction or expansion. At Waltham Cross in the United Kingdom, application of this framework led to the selection of air cooling due to elevated local water scarcity.
Communication Services
Nine watersheds, high- and medium-stress regions
In 2024, Meta's operational restoration projects returned over 1.59 billion gallons of water to high- and medium-stress regions. The Volumetric Water Benefit Report includes more than 40 projects across nine watersheds.
Communication Services
Shanghai, China
The resort recycles treated water from Wishing Star Lake for non-potable uses. Disney also completed restroom renovations that allow treated lake water to supply restroom systems.
Communication Services
At sea
In 2025, the Disney Treasure launched with an onboard reverse osmosis system that can produce nearly all the ship's potable water. Disney also upgraded the Disney Dream's reverse osmosis system.
Communication Services
California, United States
The Scott River–Whiskey IFM project links Netflix's climate financing to watershed restoration and fire prevention. In 2025, Netflix retired 34,793 metric tons from this project.
Communication Services
Brazil
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.
Communication Services
Orlando, Florida, United States
Epic Universe became the first theme park in the United States to receive LEED Platinum certification for Communities: Plan and Design, with water management integrated into its physical spaces.
Consumer Discretionary
Global manufacturing sites
GM applies the WWF Water Risk Filter to assess site-level water risk, with upgrades in water-stressed areas of Mexico and stormwater resilience work at Warren.
Consumer Discretionary
Global AWS regions
AWS reports progress toward returning more water to communities than it uses, through reclaimed-water cooling, improved water usage effectiveness, reuse and rainwater systems in India, and replenishment projects with partners including Water.org.
Consumer Discretionary
Manufacturing sites
Whirlpool's factory water work centers on reuse, wastewater treatment, and a nanoceramic coating process that reduces water demand in paint pretreatment.
Consumer Staples
Schimatari, Greece
The Zero Drop water recycling initiative employs smart technology at the local water treatment plant to recover water from the backwashing process of filters used in water treatment. The process recovers 15% of the facility's raw water, enough to meet the annual demands of around 6,500 people, while reducing energy consumption by 7 to 10%.
Consumer Staples
Nigeria, Benin, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Armenia, Malta, Italy
In 2025, Coca-Cola completed water stewardship projects at all 19 water-risk facilities. The company drilled new wells and laid pipelines in Nigeria, while in Benin it provided sanitation and water infrastructure. In Aegion, a water network upgrade will help reduce water losses by 100 million liters annually.
Consumer Staples
Pune, India
PepsiCo condenses and reuses the water vapor produced when preparing potato products, converting waste into process water. In Pune it replaced a water-cooled heat exchanger with an air-cooled exchanger, further reducing freshwater consumption in chip production.
Consumer Staples
High water-risk watersheds, global
PepsiCo replenished 35 million cubic meters of water back into high water-risk watersheds in 2025, alongside 25 ReCon Deep Dive water audits at manufacturing facilities.
Consumer Discretionary
Coffee-growing regions, global
In FY25, 1,762 EcoMills were funded, compared with 1,643 in FY24. EcoMills promote the reduction of water use in coffee-processing facilities, which helps local ecosystems by reducing pollution from coffee wastewater.
Consumer Discretionary
Rwanda and other origin countries
In FY25, 745,034 people worldwide are reported to have benefited from the WASH programs initiated by the company — more than double FY24. With Ripple Effect, Starbucks implemented water and sanitation solutions in Rwanda to provide clean water access and promote food security.
Consumer Staples
Arkansas, United States
In collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, General Mills initiated the installation of timers that reduced the water consumption of farms by 20%, resulting in the conservation of 5.4 billion gallons of water.
Consumer Staples
Rio Grande basin, New Mexico, United States
General Mills collaborates with The Nature Conservancy's Rio Grande Water Fund, which saw the stewardship of 7,007 acres of forest in the basin in 2024, focused on reducing the risk of wildfires and improving water quality.
Consumer Staples
Richland Creek Wildlife Management Area, Texas, United States
With Ducks Unlimited, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and the Texas Water Action Collaborative, the company helped construct 111 acres of wetlands fitted with water retention structures. In 2025 the wetlands stored around 345 million liters of water during four flood events.
Consumer Staples
Thrace, Türkiye
An advanced automated system treats and recycles used water through disinfection, oxidation, multimedia filters, ultrafiltration, and reverse osmosis, creating a closed-loop water system. Conductivity fell more than 92%, total hardness 84%, and total suspended solids 97%.
Consumer Staples
93 countries
The program has tapped into the efforts of more than 150 partners to deliver more than 21 billion liters of clean water to more than 90 countries since 2004, using P&G's Purifier of Water packets.
Consumer Staples
United States
The initiative will see the recycling of 2.6 billion gallons of freshwater over the projects' lifespan, with 9.8 billion liters projected to be treated in the course of their operation.
Consumer Staples
Guangzhou, China
The system treats rainwater and other water sources and redirects the water to the facility's cooling towers, reducing water withdrawal from municipal sources by 44,000 cubic meters in 2025.
Consumer Staples
Fallingbostel, Germany
The Fallingbostel plant saved 10,000 cubic meters of water after it automated washing of cheese containers. At Gebze, replacing water injection with steam injection in dough fermentation chambers saved a further 2,000 cubic meters.
Consumer Staples
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
Upgrades to a reuse membrane system and changes to internal water flows are expected to save more than 1,000,000 cubic meters annually, the largest of a set of 2024 projects expected to save over 1,340,000 cubic meters per year.
Consumer Discretionary
Australia, Pakistan, India, Brazil, United States
By FY24, Nike reported restoring 6.9 billion liters of water, up from 5.2 billion liters in FY23. Projects include reducing agricultural water demand in Maharashtra, restoring wetlands in Australia, building rainwater harvesting in Pakistan, and reconnecting floodplains in Louisiana.
Consumer Discretionary
Global supplier network
The company stopped using C8-based durable water-repellent finishes and reported that all DWR finishes used in Nike products were PFAS-free as of 2022, linking water stewardship to pollution prevention.
Consumer Discretionary
United States retail network
In 2024, Home Depot offered around 10,900 water-saving products, including about 9,400 with the WaterSense label, and sold over 21 million WaterSense units. These sales helped customers cut their annual water use by about 30 billion gallons.
Consumer Discretionary
More than 500 U.S. stores
Stores with smart irrigation systems have cut landscaping water use by 29% on average compared to older timer-based systems, and more than 500 U.S. stores have used this program since 2019.
Consumer Discretionary
United States retail network
In 2024, Lowe's offered 11,100 WaterSense products in stores and online. Customers who purchased these products are expected to save an estimated 856 billion gallons of water over the products' lifetimes; cumulative sales have saved 3.6 trillion gallons.
Consumer Discretionary
Paraguay
Working with the World Resources Institute and World Wildlife Fund, McDonald's advises suppliers on water stewardship. In Paraguay, local beef suppliers adopt rainwater harvesting techniques to provide water for cattle and crops.
Materials
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, United States
Albemarle began removing and treating approximately 4.9 billion liters of precipitation-fed water accumulated in a legacy mine pit, pumping it through a dedicated multi-stage treatment system before release under state water-quality requirements protecting Kings Creek.
Materials
Salar de Atacama, Chile
The project recovers more lithium that would otherwise remain trapped in by-product salts, improving yield without a proportional increase in brine extraction or freshwater use. It contributed to a 46% reduction in freshwater intensity from the 2019 baseline.
Materials
Wuhu, China
The automotive coatings plant installed two machines that separate contaminants from tank-washing wastewater and produce distilled water for reuse in later cleaning cycles. The system is expected to process more than 500 metric tons of wastewater annually.
Materials
Bishop, Texas, United States
Celanese installed reverse-osmosis treatment to recover a wastewater stream that would otherwise have been discharged, reusing it in onsite cooling towers. Additional recycling of treated effluent enabled the facility to reuse or recycle approximately 206 million gallons in 2024.
Materials
Shenzhen, China
The Shenzhen Apollo facility installed 15 water meters and developed a water-balance model to identify abnormal consumption and reduction opportunities, producing two projects expected to save approximately 4.6 million gallons annually.
Materials
Production facilities, global
Operators previously estimated how much rinse water was needed to clean production tanks. The new tool calculates more precise volumes, reducing unnecessary water withdrawal and wash-water generation while improving batch yields.
Materials
Mission Mine, United States
Chemours advanced process-water circularity at Mission Mine and drought response at Altamira, alongside watershed assessments at 18 facilities. Operational withdrawal fell 11%, and withdrawal in water-stressed areas fell 47%.
Materials
Brazoria County, Texas, United States
Dow financed expansion of the Harris Reservoir to strengthen regional water resilience, alongside a Water Resilience Index, watershed and ecosystem projects, and recycling initiatives across its manufacturing base.
Materials
Americas and Indonesia
Freeport recycled and reused 1.556 billion cubic meters of water globally, or 83% of the water it used, rising to 90% at water-stressed operations, with zero discharge at those operations.
Health Care
Central Valley, California, United States
With the Pacific Institute, Netafim, LimnoTech, General Mills, and Keurig Dr Pepper, Gilead helped transition five family-owned farms from flood to drip irrigation. One project transformed 60 acres and decreased water use by 40 million gallons per year.
Health Care
Tlajapan, Mexico
Abbott achieved AWS certification at its Tlajapan site and pursued water-saving initiatives in Karachi alongside drought-resistant landscaping, recycling 1,651 megaliters of water in 2024 — 12.2% of total withdrawal.
Coverage note · Water actions appear here only where H2Oversight has published a full company water analysis. The feed expands as more of the 125 tracked corporations are analyzed.
