Global Water Use
Our Global Impact
Global Market
The world bottled water market represents an annual volume of 89 billion liters, and is estimated to be worth US$ 22 billion. 75% of the world market is still controlled by local actors. More than half (59%) of the bottled water drank in the world is purified water, the remaining 41% being spring or mineral water. While bottled water originates from protected sources (75 percent from underground aquifers and springs), tap water comes mostly from rivers and lakes.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in 2003, approximately 1.1 billion people had no access to safe water and 2.4 billion had no basic sanitation. Most importantly, dirty water is often the cause of ordinary childhood diarrhea, a leading killer of African children.
