Nestlé Waters' Dashan Factory in China Achieves Gold-level Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) Certification

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The 12th Nestlé Waters factory to receive AWS certification

One year ago today, Nestlé Waters committed to certifying 20
factories to the international Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS)
Standard by 2020. Nestlé Waters is marking this milestone on its
water stewardship journey by announcing the gold-level certification
of its Dashan factory in China. The factory is the latest at Nestlé
Waters to achieve AWS certification and will be officially presented
with its gold-level award at an AWS seminar in Beijing today.

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Yet the situation was not completely golden when Nestlé Waters
first acquired the factory nearly ten years ago. Located in a rural
area of Yunnan Province, the local aquifer is sensitive to seasonal
variations in rainfall and any excess use of water has immediate
consequences for all local water users. The Nestlé Waters team was
quickly convinced of the need to take action to start addressing the
most pressing local water challenges in a meaningful way. Initial
actions included improving online monitoring of the well, more
in-depth analysis of the dynamic water level and ensuring that
factory water withdrawals are consistently below maximum limits.
Water levels have stabilised as a combined result of ongoing actions
like these.

"We have had a strengthened well management plan in place for over
seven years, and we have reduced the factory's water use by at least
20% during the same period," said Boyce Wu, who led the AWS
certification process (http://a4ws.org/certification/) at the
factory. "We have also prioritised getting to know and speaking to
the local community that lives in the vicinity of the factory" he
elaborated.

This is not the end of the factory's journey towards sustainable
management of the local water resource. Boyce and the team will apply
the important lessons they have learned from their AWS certification
experience. Primary among them is progress on transparency and
improvement in local community relations. Transparency in sharing
watershed data and closer links with communities are vital to water
stewardship as they build mutual understanding of water challenges as
well as trust and resolve among stakeholders to work together to
address them.

With this latest certification, Nestlé Waters now has a total of
12 factories certified to the AWS Standard. The company has also
extended its inaugural commitment to include certification of all its
factories by 2025 because AWS certification encourages its teams to
constantly challenge and improve the way they manage water. Nestlé
Waters' commitment to water stewardship supports business's
contribution to SDG 6 (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg6) on
water and the company's sustainable management of water
(https://www.nestle.com/csv/impact/water).

About Nestlé Waters

Founded in 1992, Nestlé Waters is the water division of the Nestlé
Group and the No. 1 bottled water company worldwide (sales of CHF 8.0
billion in 2017). Nestlé Waters employs more than 33,000 people
worldwide. With over 93 production facilities situated in 33
countries around the world, Nestlé Waters has a unique portfolio of
more than 50 brands including Nestlé Pure Life, Perrier, S.
Pellegrino, Poland Spring, Vittel, Buxton, Erikli.

For more information visit http://www.nestle-waters.com.

About the Alliance for Water Stewardship

The AWS is a global membership-based organisation that promotes
and recognises good water stewardship. As part of the certification
process, independent auditors look at a number of factors within the
groundwater basins where facilities are located and interview a
number of internal and external community stakeholders. Sites that
achieve certification meet either core, gold or platinum-level
requirements.

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Contact:
Nestlé Waters Media Relations
Katie Dahlstrom
External Communications Director
Tel : +33 1 41 23 45 00
Katie.dahlstrom@waters.nestle.com. Nestlé China Ltd.
Nancy He
Corporate Affairs Director
Phone: +86 10 8434 7656
Nancy.He@cn.nestle.com

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