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Accelerating water action in agricultural supply chains
Practical steps for building supply chain water resilience This guide provides a pragmatic approach to addressing water-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities (DIROs) in agr…
Accelerating water action in agricultural supply chains
Practical steps for building supply chain water resilience This guide provides a pragmatic approach to addressing water-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities (DIROs) in agricultural …
Volumetric Water Benefit Accounting 2.0
Since its initial publication in 2019, Volumetric Water Benefit Accounting (VWBA) has been broadly adopted and is regarded as a best-practice resource for providing transparent, credible, and comparab…
Application of the VWBA Withdrawal Method to Incorporate Precipitation Variability for Agricultural Activities that Reduce Water Applied to Crops
This guidance document prepared by Bluerisk and Kilimo provides an example application of the Volumetric Water Benefit Accounting (VWBA) withdrawal method to explicitly account for precipitation in Vo…
Governing Corporate Water Replenishment Programs: Twelve Practical Tips and Lessons Learned
Maintaining reliable access to fresh water is a global challenge, and this challenge is growing increasingly difficult due to a complex range of reasons, including weak governance, climate volatility,…
ICMM’s Water Stewardship Maturity Framework
ICMM’s Water Stewardship Maturity Framework is a practical tool designed to enhance the stewardship of shared water resources in ways that are socially equitable, environmentally sustainable and econo…
Aqueduct 4.0: Updated Decision-Relevant Global Water Risk Indicators
This technical note serves as the main reference for the updated Aqueduct™️ 4.0 water risk framework. It details the data and methodology used to create 13 indicators of global water risk. Indicators …
Development of a Company‐Level Cost‐Benefit Analysis Framework: Assessing the Full Value of Water Stewardship Investments to Business and Society
With the world’s water supply in crisis, companies are increasingly recognizing the threats that they face from too little water, too much water, or polluted water, and how climate change is compoundi…
A Decade in Review: Practical Perspectives and Experience in Driving Impactful Water Replenishment Initiatives
The purpose of this document is to share, in a clear and concise format, insights the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) has accumulated from developing corporate water replenishment in…
A framework to assess multi-hazard physical climate risk for power generation projects from publicly-accessible sources
Demand for information about physical climate risk is growing, particularly for the power generation sector, given its size and pronounced exposure to climate hazards. However, quantifying physical cl…
Setting Site Water Targets Informed by Catchment Context: BHP’s Approach
The objective of this white paper is to share BHP’s approach to setting context-based water targets (CBWTs) by applying three principles for setting site water targets that reflect the catchment conte…