Have you implemented a water stewardship program? Water Stewardship has many moving parts, and many barriers. Join Antea Group and CDP to learn about the top 5 barriers and how to get past them to build a comprehensive water stewardship program.

1. 5 Barriers to
Corporate Water
Stewardship
CDP Supply Chain Webinar
February 2016

2. Why Antea Group
5 Barriers to Corporate Water Stewardship
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3. 3 Most Challenging Barriers to
Implementing Corporate Water
Strategies
Barrier #1
No Single Recipe

4. Water and YOUR Business
5 Barriers to Corporate Water Stewardship
1 facility 10’s of Facilities 100’s of Facilities
4
Water-related business risks and opportunities and company
strategy depend upon your business perspective!
confidential and proprietarySource: Maps are from the WRI Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas
OR
OR OR

5. Strategy Through Implementation
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6. Defining Strategic Needs
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Ceres Aqua Gauge
http://www.ceres.org/issues/water/corporate-
water-stewardship/aqua-gauge/aqua-gauge
CEO Water Mandate Corporate Water
Disclosure Guidelines (September 2014)
http://ceowatermandate.org/files/Disclosure20
14.pdf
BIER Water Stewardship Definition
and Principles
http://www.bieroundtable.com
2015 CDP Water Report

7. 3 Most Challenging Barriers to
Implementing Corporate Water
Strategies
Barrier #2
The Pretty Fish in a Dry Pond

8. Understanding Operational Context
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Risks are unique to each location …
…but business continuity is often the first pressure point

9. Local Business Resiliency
5 Barriers to Corporate Water Stewardship
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10. Fit-for-Location Strategy
5 Barriers to Corporate Water Stewardship
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Facility A
Facility B
Available at:
www.bieroundtable.com

11. 3 Most Challenging Barriers to
Implementing Corporate Water
Strategies
Barrier #3
Diamond Water Paradox

12. True Cost and Value of Water
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“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ”
― Thomas Fuller
confidential and proprietary

13. What You Actually Pay
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Direct Costs +
 Treatment costs (pre-treatment, chemicals, filters)
 Electrical energy costs (cooling and moving water)
 Thermal energy costs (heating and steam generation)
 Yield loss costs (losses of water with embedded cost or value)
 Waste costs (sewer fees/surcharges, water to drain, wastewater)
 Regulatory costs (permits, fines, and compliance management)
 Operations and maintenance costs
Easily 2-4x Higher?

14. May Fix Itself
5 Barriers to Corporate Water Stewardship
14confidential and proprietarySource: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/business/economy/the-price-of-water-is-too-low.html?_r=0
 The ultimate conundrum: higher costs
drive conservation; conservation
drives the need to increase costs
 Infrastructure 40-50 years old in the
U.S. with insufficient cost recovery.
 Projected to cost the U.S. $1 trillion
over the next two decades.
 Water treatment technology and
investments.

15. Opportunity vs Business Value
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www.bieroundtable.com

16. 3 Most Challenging Barriers to
Implementing Corporate Water
Strategies
Barrier #4
A Frog…or the Titanic

17. Water is Fundamentally Important, Agree?
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Nearly everything you make, do, or sell requires water.

18. Water is the Perfect Storm, Agree?
5 Barriers to Corporate Water Stewardship
40% demand gap projected by 2030 globally,
with key markets most stressed
Advanced publicly available risk
data and corporate information
Growing expectations for corporate
water disclosure and local-level
accountability and engagement
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19. Bizarre weather patterns
5 Barriers to Corporate Water Stewardship
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20. Bizarre weather patterns
5 Barriers to Corporate Water Stewardship
20confidential and proprietarySource: Photo from www.surfermag.com.

21. Frog or Titanic Reference
5 Barriers to Corporate Water Stewardship
21confidential and proprietarySource: Titantic image from www.bbc.co.uk and the frog image from
http://www.cityhyd.info/2014/08/24/the-big-message-from-the-boiling-frog-syndrome/

22. 3 Most Challenging Barriers to
Implementing Corporate Water
Strategies
Barrier #5
Data

23. Enabling Informed Decisions
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Positive Movement
 Incredible strides over the past
decade
 Migration towards a common
language (physical, regulatory,
social & reputational)
 Free, user friendly water risk tools
and global datasets
 Organizations are collaborating
more than ever (Private, Public,
NGO), including at the watershed
level
Continued Challenges
 Insufficient and low integrity data
beyond ‘physical’ (proxy measures)
 Inconsistent data collection, format,
and availability
 Scalability and leveraging
technology
 Invaluable data and insights going
unused

24. What Are We Collectively Sitting On?
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Not a matter of if any longer….it is how to leverage and share?

25. I Believe the Glass is Half Full…
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But, it will take a collective effort to
address the water challenges we all face.

26. B E T T E R B U S I N E S S ,
B E T T E R W O R L D℠
Our Global Water Stewardship
Service Area Leads:
Management talent with business risk and opportunity acumen:
Nick Martin
Sustainability Practice Leader
Senior Consultant
+1 703 861 6997
nick.martin@anteagroup.com