Coke, Pepsi claim to have reduced water use.

Coca cola and Pepsi have come out with a claim that they have dramatically reduced the use of water for manufacturing their soft drinks.

According to a Business Standard report "just four years before, Coke factories consumed over four litres of water for every litre of beverage sold. Now, it is 2.5 litres, a reduction of 34 per cent. Coke’s global and key competitor, PepsiCo, has followed a similar pattern, slashing unit water usage from 7.1 litres in 2001 to 2.4 litres currently."

The reduction of water use could be a result of the shift from glass bottles to pet bottles as they do not need water to wash the glass bottles for reuse any more. So now we have less water use but more plastic bottles.

Here is the News Report.