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A short list of useful resources to help understand and act on water risk
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…
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…
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…
Beyond Volumes: Exploring the Societal Value of Corporate Water Stewardship Projects.
In response to emerging water challenges, a growing number of companies are engaging in corporate water stewardship and working with others to achieve more sustainable water management. Many of these …
A Recipe for Impact: Key Ingredients for Companies to Drive Measurable Impact in Watershed Health
The global water crisis is not only impacting communities and ecosystems, it is also creating reputational, physical, and regulatory business risks and causing financial impacts across the private sec…
Setting Enterprise Water Targets: A Guide For Companies
Setting water targets at the enterprise level that respond to local contexts has proved challenging because water is not an equally material issue across corporate value chains. Environmental, social,…
A Practical Guide to Implement Water Replenishment Targets
Building on information required to apply the AWS Standard framework, this guide helps practitioners apply the steps outlined in the VWBA method to identify and implement activities, measure progress,…
Drained by data
The explosion of data centers across the U.S. is one of the economic hallmarks of the 2020s. And with data in demand, so too is the demand for water these centers need to operate.