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Accelerating water action in agricultural supply chains & Bluerisk

Paul Reig — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT

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 supply chains, based on the common elements and insights of effective practices and programs currently being implemented by leading companies and nonprofit groups.

Volumetric Water Benefit Accounting 2.0 • Bluerisk

Paul Reig — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

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 comparable methodologies to quantify volumetric water benefits (VWBs) derived from water stewardship activities. The release of VWBA 2.0 represents a methodological advancement, responding to an identified need for expanded and refined guidance on VWBs. This update incorporates insights and empirical lessons from years of practical application to strengthen the guidance use for real-world implementation.

Application of the VWBA Withdrawal Method to Incorporate Precipitation Variability for Agricultural Activities that Reduce Water Applied to Crops • Bluerisk

Jenna Stewart — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 11:30:00 GMT

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 Volumetric Water Benefit (VWB) estimates to isolate the additionality of activities and reduce the risk of overclaiming VWBs in the context of agricultural activities.

Governing Corporate Water Replenishment Programs: Twelve Practical Tips and Lessons Learned • Bluerisk

Stas Cynkar — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:00:00 GMT

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, water scarcity, degradation of natural systems, pollution and aging infrastructure.

ICMM’s Water Stewardship Maturity Framework • Bluerisk

Bluerisk and ICMM — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 10:15:00 GMT

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 economically beneficial.

Aqueduct 4.0: Updated Decision-Relevant Global Water Risk Indicators • Bluerisk

Samantha Kuzma — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 12:15:00 GMT

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 reflect both current conditions and future projections of water supply, demand, stress, and more. This paper also describes how water risks can be aggregated into categories of risk, such as physical and quality, as well as administrative risk.

Development of a Company‐Level Cost‐Benefit Analysis Framework: Assessing the Full Value of Water Stewardship Investments to Business and Society • Bluerisk

Jenna Stewart — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:00:00 GMT

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 compounding these threats. Yet, there is a two-way interaction between the private sector and freshwater—industry affects water resources, just as water resources affect industry. Research and companies’ disclosures underscore the financial impacts that companies are already experiencing or are exposed to, and the impacts industry’s practices are causing for society.

A Decade in Review: Practical Perspectives and Experience in Driving Impactful Water Replenishment Initiatives • Bluerisk

Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) — Wed, 10 May 2023 16:00:00 GMT

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 initiatives in ways that deliver business, environmental and social value.

A framework to assess multi-hazard physical climate risk for power generation projects from publicly-accessible sources • Bluerisk

Tianyi Luo — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 13:45:00 GMT

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 climate risks for a large number of assets remains challenging. Here we introduce a scalable and transparent methodology that enables multi-hazard physical climate risk assessments for any thermal or hydro power generation project. The methodology relies on basic power plant type and geolocation data inputs, publicly-available climate datasets, and hazard- and technology-specific vulnerability factors, to translate hazard severity into generation losses. We apply the methodology to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s early 2021 thermal and hydro power generation portfolios of 80 assets. We show that under the Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5 scenario, those 80 power plants could experience a 4.0-10.9 TWh loss in annual generation (or 1.87-5.07% of total annual maximum generation) by 2030 compared to its baseline losses of 0.70–0.87 TWh (or 0.33–0.41%). One of the largest drivers of the increased risk is rising water temperatures, which is currently overlooked by mainstream climate risk disclosure guidelines.

Setting Site Water Targets Informed by Catchment Context: BHP’s Approach • Bluerisk

Paul Reig — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 10:15:00 GMT

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 context. The targets should be: