Water extracted from milk to produce its evaporated milk will be used in operational tasks such as cleaning and cooling.

Switzerland-based Nestlé announced that it had begun work to transform its Carnation Evaporated Milk Plant in Modesto, California into a zero-water facility, which means it will not use any local freshwater resources for its operation.

Nestlé is scheduled to complete the project by late 2016.

The company expects to save nearly 63 million gallons of water, approximately 71% of the plant’s 2014 water usage, each year at Modesto.

Nestlé has come under fire for its water bottling operations in California, which is into its fourth year of drought.