Document: WRI’s Aqueduct Project [webinar slides]

WRI’s Aqueduct Project [webinar slides]

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Preview of WRI’s Aqueduct Project [webinar slides]

The slides from the World Resources Institute's (WRI) Aquedeuct Project webinar, which addressed how:

  • Water is increasingly emerging as a key area of concern for investors and businesses in many different sectors of the economy;
  • Water can create risks for companies in many different ways, from scarcity of process water to uncertainty around water pricing or regulations, to competition among various users of water resources;
  • Understanding what these risks are, and where they are highest, requires more data than a simple assessment of how much water is available in a given place;
  • Aqueduct brings together data on many of the drivers of water risk into one place, and creates maps that show where water risks may emerge;
  • Aqueduct’s maps are flexible, and can be tailored to reflect the widely varying risk profiles of different businesses in different sectors.

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Slide 1Betsy Otto, World Resources Institute 
Jon Freedman, General Electric 



The world’s highest-resolution database of water risk 
Adaptable framework to understand water risk complexity at global & local scale  
A platform to help companies and policy makers make 
more efficient, sustainable water management choices 
What is AQUEDUCT ? 



Worsening scarcity 1975 
Extreme Scarcity 
<500 
Scarcity 
500-1,000 
Stress 
1,000-1,700 
Adequate 
1,700-4,000 
Abundant 
4,000-10,000 
Surplus 
>10,000 
Ocean/ 
Inland Water 
No Data 
m3/person/year 
Data and maps by 



Worsening scarcity 2000 
Extreme Scarcity 
<500 
Scarcity 
500-1,000 
Stress 
1,000-1,700 
Adequate 
1,700-4,000 
Abundant 
4,000-10,000 
Surplus 
>10,000 
Ocean/ 
Inland Water 
No Data 
m3/person/year 
Data and maps by 



Worsening scarcity 2025 
Extreme Scarcity 
<500 
Scarcity 
500-1,000 
Stress 
1,000-1,700 
Adequate 
1,700-4,000 
Abundant 
4,000-10,000 
Surplus 
>10,000 
Ocean/ 
Inland Water 
No Data 
m3/person/year 
Data and maps by 



Worsening scarcity 2025 
Extreme Scarcity 
<500 
Scarcity 
500-1,000 
Stress 
1,000-1,700 
Adequate 
1,700-4,000 
Abundant 
4,000-10,000 
Surplus 
>10,000 
Ocean/ 
Inland Water 
No Data 
m3/person/year 
Data and maps by 



AQUEDUCT  Alliance 
Founding Partners: 
Alliance Members: 



Water risks 
Reputation 
Regulatory 
(+ litigation) 
Physical 
Production process Supply chain 
Point of impact: 
 
Type of risk: 
Commodity price spikes 
Water quality standards 
constraining power generation 
Competition with social uses 



Private interest  public good 
Broadly defined: 
 
• Physical 
• Regulatory 
• Reputational 
Inside the fence 
improvements: 
 
• Siting 
• Efficiency gains 
  Sourcing 
• Reporting / disclosure 
Outside the fence 
engagement & 
solutions: 
 
• Water policy reform 
  
• “Hydro-smart” business 
models, investments 
  
• Infrastructure finance 
Better water risk 
information 
Lower water 
dependency 
Higher water 
security 



AQUEDUCT: for portfolio decisions 
Facility/project 
level water 
management 
Portfolio risk 
management 



Global Maps – Multiple Layers 



Tentative “deep dive” basins 
Complete: 
• Yellow River, China 
 
 
In Progress – Q1 2012 
• Murray-Darling, Australia  
• Orange-Vaal, Southern Africa 
• Colorado River, USA 
Planned - 2012 
• Yangtze River, China 
• Mekong River, SE Asia 
 



OVERALL  
WATER RISK 
Physical Risk  
QUANTITY 
Regulatory &  
Reputational Risk 
Physical Risk  
QUALITY 
• Baseline Water Stress  
• Inter-annual Variability  
• Seasonal Variability  
• Historical Flood Occurrence 
• Upstream Storage  
• Groundwater supply trend (*) 
• Water Reuse  
• Water Quality 
               - BOD 
               - COD 
               - DO 
3 out of 7: - TSS 
               - NH3-N 
               - PO4-P 
                - EC 
• Ecosystem services (*) 
 
• Monitoring Station Coverage 
• Media Coverage 
• Ecosystem Services (*) 
AQUEDUCT Water Risk Framework 
(*) Under development 



AQUEDUCT Database 



Basin Maps – Extremely High Resolution 



Overall Water Risk  
Physical Risk 
QUALITY 
Physical Risk 
QUANTITY 
Regulatory & 
Reputational Risk 
Baseline Water St. 
Inter-annual Variab. 
Seasonal Variab. 
Historical Floods 
Upstream Storage 
CURRENT MAP: 
Physical Water Risk  
Basin Maps – Indicator Selection 



Basin Maps – Location Analysis 
Overall Water 
Risk 
Physical Risk 
QUANTITY 
Physical Risk 
QUALITY 
Regulatory & 
Reputational 
Risks 



Under Development: Water Risk News 



19% of SE Asian power plant design capacity is located in 
areas of water stress concern  
S o u t h ea st A sia , Base line W ater S t r es s and  P o w er  P lant s



55% of SE Asian current power plant design capacity 
would see water stress grow 2 to 8 times worse by 2025 
Sou the a s t A s ia , Lo ng  T e rm Cha ng e  in  Wa te r Stres s  a nd  Pow e r Pla nts  
( 2 0 2 5 ,  I P CC  S c e n a r io  A 1 B)



Who will do what differently? 
• Strategize  
Distribution of plants, 
suppliers & product 
markets 
• Target 
investments  
Efficiency efforts, 
engagement 
Companies Investors 
• Differentiate 
between companies 
based on potential 
exposure to water risk 
& opportunity 
• Plan 
hydro-sensible land 
use policies 
• Target 
infrastructure  
investment & water 
policies 
Governments 



Thank you for your time. 
For more information, visit www.wri.org/aqueduct 



Aqueduct Project Webinar 
February 2, 2012 
Jon Freedman 
Global Government Relations 
Leader 
GE Water & Process Technologies 
GE Power and Water 
Water & Process Technologies 



Becoming the global water leader 
Glegg 
 
 Pure Water 
Solutions  
 
 Water & Process 
Specialty Chemicals 
 BetzDearborn 
 
 Osmonics ZENON 
 Equipment & 
Membranes 
 Desalination & Reuse 
 Mobile Water 
Ionics 
 Hollow Fiber Technology 
 MBR Technology 



Global water footprint 
Manufacturing site 
Strong global footprint with local expertise 
• HQ: Trevose, 
Pennsylvania 
• 7,900 employees 
• 130 countries 
• 50,000 customers 
• 50 global 
manufacturing sites 
Wuxi, China 
Products: Element 
Rolling, Pro & High 
Purity Equipment 
Assembly, Cassette 
Assembly 
Niskayuna, New York, USA 
GE Global Research Center  
Munich, Germany   
European Technology Center 
Bangalore, India   
John F. Welch 
Technology Center 
Shanghai, China   
China Technology 
Center 
Oroszlány, Hungary  
Products: Element Rolling 
 
Hoskote, India 
Products: Element 
Rolling 
Sorocaba, Brazil  
Products: Equipment  
Assembly 
Minnetonka, Minneapolis, 
USA Products: Filters, 
Membranes and RO machines 
Images denote major manufacturing facilities 



Enabling the future with portfolio 
solutions 
Desalination Solutions: 
Drawing on the ocean’s virtually limitless 
water resources, GE’s desalination 
technologies are helping water scarce 
regions to create new freshwater 
sources that can quench growing 
demand. 
Municipal Solutions: 
Facing unprecedented growth and water 
demand, cities are turning to GE’s 
advanced membrane and water quality 
measurement technologies to tackle 
increasingly stringent water and 
wastewater regulations and the threat of 
new, virulent pathogens in our lakes and 
rivers. 
Industrial Wastewater: 
Once considered a by-product, GE’s 
water reuse technology is transforming 
industrial wastewater into a sustainable, 
new water source that can often be used 
many times over—dramatically reducing 
the strain on our precious water 
resources.  
Utility Solutions: 
GE is optimizing system efficiency & 
increasing uptime in cooling towers and 
boilers by reducing energy usage and 
greenhouse gas emissions. Advanced 
monitoring systems reduce the risk of 
pathogen growth, such as Legionella, in 
cooling systems.  
Residential Products: 
GE point-of-use and point-of-entry 
filtration systems are enabling  
homeowners to produce higher quality 
water from every tap in the home. This 
same technology is helping developing 
countries to leapfrog traditional, costly 
infrastructure and provide safe water to 
those who need it most. 
Product Water: 
Consumers use the products they trust – 
whether it is pharmaceuticals,  food, or 
beverages. As brands expand globally, 
GE technologies ensure high quality 
ingredient water for manufacturing 
regardless of a plant’s location or its 
water source. 
Process Chemicals & 
Separations: 
Silently working in pipes, tanks and 
process fluids, GE’s advanced chemicals 
protect valuable production assets from 
corrosion and fouling faced in day-to-day 
operations, while improving overall 
manufacturing efficiency and quality. 



Israel, Jordan, Syria >70% reuse 
Abu Dhabi … target 100% reuse  
50% of global reuse 
plants in EMEA 
Singapore: >20% of 
drinking water from reuse 
Australia: 13 years of drought 
+ 18% population growth = 
huge reuse demand 
US: 27% of global reuse 
capacity 
FL will reuse 1B gal/day by ’10 
AZ reuses 60% of wastewater 
Scarcity driving reuse globally 
Scarcity driving reuse 



Double R&D to $1.5B by ’10 
Grow revenues to $25B by ‘10 
Reduce GHG emissions 1% by ‘12 
Reduce water 20% by ‘12 
Inform public 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
2005 - 2010 
Double R&D to $10B 
Grow 2X of GE’s growth 
Improve energy efficiency by 50% 
Reduce water 25% 
Inspire a prosperous clean economy 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
2010 - 2015 2x 



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