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FactsAboutBottled WaterTHE FactsAboutNestlé Waters CanadaTHE Recycling •Nestlé Waters Canada and its industry partners fund a minimum of 50% of everymunicipal recycling program in Canada, whether curbside, depot/deposit orpublic spaces.197% of Canadians have access to a municipal recycling program.•Nestlé Waters Canada is committed to developing a next-generation bottle madeentirely from recycled materials or renewable resources by 2020. Tap vs Bottle •If potable tap water is available, we believe people should drink it. •Bottled water does not compete with tap water. 91% of bottled water drinkers consumetap water at home and bottled water on the go. •Maintaining Canada’s municipal water and sewer infrastructure is vitally important for allconsumers, including Nestlé Waters Canada. Nestlé Waters and its employees supportincreased investment in this vital infrastructure by all levels of government so that each •Bottled water is simply not tap water in a bottle. Nestlé Waters Canada uses undergroundsources on private property to produce its waters. According to a February 2014 AC Nielsenreport, 95% of Canadian bottled water comes from spring water sources on private property. Water Supply •We have the only full-time hydrogeologist in the Canadian beverageindustry. This individual is responsiblefor the sustainable development of •We draw less than 3.2% of availablepermitted water between April andSeptember and about 1% betweenOctober and March from the Mill Creeksub watershed in Wellington County. •We are the world’s largest producer ofbottled water, but only use 0.0009% ofthe total fresh water drawn worldwide. watershed, and less than of 1% ofavailable water from the KawkawaLake watershed in Hope.4 •Nestlé Waters Canada’s current permitin Aberfoyle, Ontario, is for 2,500 litresper minute. We are currently usingabout 60% of that. •We have paid for the water we drawin Ontario since 2009.We will beginto pay for the water we draw in BritishColumbia beginning in 2016. John Challinor II, Director of Corporate Affairs,john.challinor@waters.nestle.com1 888 565-1445, Ext. 6441 FactsAboutTHEThe Bottled Water Industry The water bottling and distributionbusiness is one of the oldest forms stimulated by risingpopulations, consumerspending patterns, lifestyletrends and a growing level of Canadians have beenpurchasing spring water in bottlesmade of glass, plastic and other The origins of bottled water can be tracedback to 10,000 B.C., where early man usedprimitive vessels and skins to transport According to Euromonitor International, the internationalbottled water market is forecast to grow by78% from 2012 to 2017 – FactsAboutTHERecycling Public spaces recycling involves the collection of recyclable materials – items typicallycaptured through deposit-refund and curbside recycling programs that are abandoned byconsumers in public spaces such as sports parks, arenas, cultural facilities, streetscapes, Bottled water represents less than 1%of a consumer’soverall environmental footprint. Compared to other packaged beverages, bottled water has the lightestenvironmental footprint because it doesn’t use “grown” ingredientssuch as sugar during production, and because the bottles use the leastamount of plastic.3 A consumer can further reduce the bottle’s carbon Plastic water bottles are the third most recycledproduct in Canada. They are also the third most valuable item in a recycling program and,when recycled, are used to make playground equipment, automobile parts,carpeting, fleece clothing, sleeping bags, shoes, luggage, other plastic 1Canadian Plastics Industry Association. The Benefits of Plastic Bottles.2StewardEdge Consultants. July 2012.3Quantis International. Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Drinking Water Alternatives and ConsumerBeverage Consumption in North America. February 1 2010.4Quantis International. February 2010. In 2009, Ontariolost25%of itstap water to leakyinfrastructureat a cost of $700million FactsAboutTHEOur Water Supply ...that’s enoughto fill131,000Olympic-sizedswimming pools.1 The Canadian bottled water industry isan efficient user of its water source. The earth’s hydrologic cyclenaturallyreplenishes our spring waters. This renewable supply falls from the sky, passingthrough lakes and rivers as it moves tothe sea. Some goes underground, About97%of water drawnby bottled water companies As one of the first signatories of theWorld Business Council for SustainableDevelopment pledge, Nestlé is •600 litresof water to produce20 litresof tap water.•3 litresof water to produce1 litre of soft drinks.•42 litresof water to produce its operations. As a result, over300,000 beneficiariesare reached by water,sanitation and hygiene projects around Nestlé manufacturing facilities. There are a number of initiatives Canadians can undertake to help preserve, protect andstrengthen our water systems. They include calling on Government to: •Make water and sewer infrastructure devel