Sales: 7.625 billion CHF[1] Nestlé Waters has roughly 31,740 employees and includes several brands such as Acqua Panna, San Pellegrino, Perrier, Vittel, Al Manhal and Buxton.

2008: Nestlé Pure Life, has become in just a decade the world's leading bottled water brand, with 5 billion liters sold worldwide.

[citation needed] 2009: Nestlé Waters strengthens its presence in two key emerging countries: in Brazil by acquiring Àguas de Santa Barbara in the São Paulo region; and in China by acquiring Dashan Drinks, the leading bottled water player in Yunnan Province In 2009, a U.S. report entitled "Tour D'Horizon with Nestle: Forget the Global Financial Crisis, the World Is Running out of Fresh Water" involved the departments of agriculture, commerce, energy and environment science and technology as a result of Nestle executives from Switzerland advising of their research.

One of the specific cases the organization protested against was regarding when Nestle bypassed a 2006 Shapleigh, Maine, ordinance that aimed to maintain local control over water resources by accessing the law through the state level.

Nestle officials responded by giving a progress report on their intentions for transparency with labeling their water sources and locations.

[8] 2021: Nestlé announced on 16 February that it had agreed to sell its water brands to One Rock Capital Partners and Metropoulos & Co.