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Managing Water Risks
Reducing water risk is becoming a management priority for companies globally. Water risk can affect a company’s direct operations as well as its supply chain, ultimately affecting operational costs, security of inputs supply, profits, and future growth. As business risks associated with water intensify – for example risks to oeprations, supply chains and reputation – many corporate sustainability professionals are seeking practical tools to help them understand and assess these risks.
Sustainable Supply Chains
Water scarcity and water pollution levels are increasing in river basins around the world due to growing populations, changing consumption patterns and poor water governance. This imposes risk to the water intensive agri-culture sector, which increasingly faces water availability and quality challenges in its widely-distributed supply chain. Sustainability has two dimensions: local and global. To develop a meaningful response strategy, it must be measured across the full supply chain.
Climate Change Response
The impact of climate change is reflected through the lens of water. Businesses, governments, and local communities face growing challenges to their sustainability as resources like water and energy are constrained, populations grow, and economic growth is sought.
Policy, regulations and SDGs
Water is crucial for the global economy. Virtually every economic sector, from agriculture, power generation, manufacturing, beverage and apparel to tourism, relies on fresh water to sustain its business. Yet water scarcity and water pollution levels are increasing in river basins around the world due to growing populations, changing consumption patterns and poor water governance.
Water Footprint Assessment
Water Footprint Assessment is a four-phase process that quantifies and maps green, blue and grey water footprints, assesses the sustainability, efficiency and equitability of water use and identifies which strategic actions should be prioritised in order to make a footprint sustainable. Water Footprint Assessment is used to assess whether water use is environmentally sustainable, resource efficient and equitably allocated.
Virtual water flows
The virtual-water refers to the volume of water consumed or polluted for producing the product, measured over its full production chain. If a nation exports/imports such a product, it exports/imports water in virtual form. The virtual-water flow between two geographically delineated areas (for example, two nations) is the volume of virtual water that is being transferred from the one to the another area as a result of product trade.
