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Water Risk and Strategy

Activity plan:

The main sub-categories this Working Group is tackling over the next six months are:

1) Water Footprinting:

  • A Quantitative Comparison between Water Footprinting for Products and Production Systems
  • Latest Methodology
  • How apt is the term Water Footprint?

2) Sustainability Labelling
3) Water Trading Schemes
4) Carbon Reduction through Water Management

Mission:

Water is one of our most vital and irreplaceable resources – with only approximately 0.4% of the world's freshwater available for human use. This water sustains our agricultural systems and consequently, our food chain. Our PCs and phones rely on silicon chips produced from water intensive manufacturing processes. The electricity that flows through the veins of every home, office building and supermarket is generated by power stations that depend heavily on water. Some say water, not oil, is the backbone of our economy.

Despite this only a small few are thinking strategically about the significant business risks of operating in a water scarce world. To help manage this risk we need improved science, transformed business practices and standards and measurements.

This Working Group is an information portal and a place to showcase the work of members developing their organization's water management strategy.


       
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Working Group Content Preview

26 Feb. 2010
RPS Water's Water Footprint Info Sheet

Please don't hesitate to contact me for more infomation.www.rpsgroup.com/water

16 Feb. 2010
Murky Waters? Corporate Reporting on Water Risk

This report has been produced by Ceres, UBS and Bloomberg. It concludes that "most companies operating in water-intensive industries are failing to provide investors with adequate information on the water-related risks they face and in many cases have little idea how their supply chains could be affected by water shortages."

15 Feb. 2010
Accelerating the Move to a Low-Water Ecomony

This document, produced by WSP, discusses future water availability and attempts being made to standardise water use measurement and to raise the profile of water scarcity issues. 

18 Jan. 2010
WFN The water footprint of sweeteners and bio-ethanol from sugar cane, sugar beet and maize

Sugar cane and sugar beet are used for sugar for human consumption. In the US, maize is used, amongst others,for the sweetener High Fructose Maize Syrup (HFMS). Sugar cane, sugar beet and maize are also important forbio-ethanol production. The growth of crops requires water, a scarce resource. The aim of this study is to assess the green, blue and grey water footprint (WF) of sugar, HFMS and ethanol in the main producing countries. In addition, an impact assessment is carried out for sugar cane and beet production in three large river basins: the Dnjepr, Indus and Ganges basins.

18 Jan. 2010
WFN Water Footprint of Carbonated Beverages

A pilot in corporate water footprinting accounting and impact assessment: The water footprint of a sugar-containing carbonated beverage.

18 Jan. 2010
WFN Water Footprint Manual 2009

The Water Footprint Network has produced this Water Footprint Manual, containing a complete, consistent and up-to-date overview of the method of water footprint assessment..

5 Jan. 2010
Setting the Table - Advice to Government on priority elements of sustainable diets

Dietary choices affect critical sustainability issues such as climate change, public health, social inequality, biodiversity, and energy, land and water use.

"Defining a sustainable diet thus becomes a test case for whether the government can achieve a better match between evidence and policy, and whether the supply chain and consumers can achieve a better match between choice and living within environmental limits."

4 Jan. 2010
Transforming wastewater treatment to reduce carbon emissions

This report is the result of research commissioned andfunded by the Environment Agency.

1 Dec. 2009
How A Heavy Engineering Company Puts the Environment First: Tubelines

Tube Lines has been presented with two Green Business Awards this year - Best UK Company in the Water Management Category and Highly Commended in the Biodiversity Protection Category. They're also active members of London's Green500. In this interview, Steve Judd, Head of Environment at Tube Lines, explains how sustainability became such a central part of the business.

26 Nov. 2009
Flood and Water Management Bill - Defra Factsheet - for the Water Industry

This Defra factsheet summarises what the legislation will mean for water companies.