The document discusses water issues around the world and implications for global companies. It summarizes that there is too much, too little, or too poor quality water in different places and times. This can pose risks like reputational harm or regulatory issues for companies. However, there are also opportunities to create solutions and gain certification. The Global Water Tool is introduced as a way for companies to assess water use and risks across their operations and supply chains. It provides metrics, maps, and helps with strategic planning, external reporting, and stakeholder communication. Customizations for specific sectors and regions are in development.
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As water demand rises around the world it will be difficult for many businesses to operate as usual. Whole sectors, companies and corporate value chains depend on water for their success. WWF, RBC and Molson Coors present their thoughts on the risks and opportunities to business and how to manage them. Coro Strandberg, Strandberg Consulting, introduces guidelines to help companies become transformational corporate water leaders.
This workshop will present the results of a project conducted by the Council of Great Lakes Industries and funded by the Great Lakes Protection Fund to evaluate the applicability of global water stewardship tools at Great Lakes industrial facilities. Workshop presenters will review the results of pilot tests at four facilities — the Consumers Energy power plant in Grand Haven, Michigan; The Escanaba Paper Co. mill in Escanaba, Michigan; a Shell petroleum refinery in Sarnia, Ontario; and a Lafarge cement plant in Bath, Ontario — and provide an opportunity for participants to discuss water stewardship measures, public disclosure practices, and the potential for identifying water stewardship goals and tracking methodologies.
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1. How to use it
Any suggestions, comments, questions?
GlobalWaterTool@wbcsd.org
2. Water Situation in the World
The right kind of water needs to be in the right place
at the right time, but that’s not always the case
Too much Too little Too bad
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3. Implications for global companies
Risk
• Increased attention on water as a
metric for business performance
• Manage risks: operational, reputational,
regulatory, products & markets, and
financial
• Severity will depend on impacts which
are determined by local conditions
• Organizations with few water impacts
may face many water-related risks
Opportunity
• Source of revenue generating solutions
• Certification in the marketplace 3
4. Corporate Water Risk Management
• Requires an understanding of a company’s
water needs in relation to local conditions
• In your operations, supply chain and ultimately
customers – entire value chain
• Low volume does not necessarily mean low risk
– impacts depend on watershed situation
• Need to collaborate with other users (“shared
resource”)
To manage your water globally,
you need to understand the water situation
locally and beyond your own operations
5. The Global Water Tool
Maps a company’s water use and helps assess
risks by comparing sites, suppliers and workers
location with external data
• How many of your sites are in water-scarce areas? Which sites
are at greater risk?
• How much of your total production is generated from your
most-at-risk sites?
• How many of your suppliers will be in water-stressed regions in
the future?
• How many of your employees live in countries that lack access
to water and sanitation?
“The Global Water Tool is the first step for any company to
make water-informed decisions”
6. What does it do?
Calculates water consumption, efficiency and
intensity metrics
Establishes relative water risks allowing
prioritization of actions
Creates water reporting indicators
Enables effective communication with internal
and external stakeholders
Provides context to a company’s water use
based on almost 30 external datasets
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7. How does it work?
Excel workbook
– company site location (lat/long) and water use
information
– automatically provides outputs (eg inventory,
reporting indicators and charts combining company
data with country and watershed data)
Online mapping
– companies can plot sites with external water datasets
and download onto maps
– connected to Google Earth
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8. Outputs (I): charts and maps
• Only requires to include geographical coordinates
of sites/suppliers
Outputs (I): charts and maps
On a country and watershed • Projected total renewable water per person 2025 & 2050 (FAO)
basis - for example: • Industrial water withdrawal as par of total (FAO)
• Access to improved drinking water & sanitation (WHO/UNICEF)
• Environmental Water Scarcity Index (IWMI)
• Urban growth rates (UN Population Division)
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9. Projected annual renewable supply per person (2025)
INCLUDE ANIMATION – BLANK MAP AND COLORED
MAP (FADE)
Supplier Office Retail Industrial
10. Outputs (II) based on excel
Outputs (II): excel workbook
• Requires site water use data
– Water inventory (consumption, intensity,
recycling / reuse)
– Reporting indicators (GRI,
Bloomberg, DJSI and CDP)
11. Company feedback
Company experience
Engagement tool
– Inform executives of potential water availability risks
– Conduct close dialogues with major sites located in water-stress
regions leading to local assessments at those sites
– Educate supply chain partners, initiate capacity building, develop
projects with local communities
Strategic planning
– Prioritize action and further quantification of risks
– Assist in screening new major projects
– Baseline to start monitoring progress in a consistent way
– Fine tune goals so that they better align with true regional concerns
External reporting
– Companies’ sustainability reports
– CDP submissions, CEO Water Mandate Communication on Progress
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12. The Global Water Tool 2011
Latest developments
1. Customizations
Industrial sectors: Power Utilities and Oil & Gas
Geographies: India and China
2. Complementing global risk assessment
with site level management
The GEMI Local Water Tool
3. Understanding the dynamic waterscape
promote engagement
drive coordination and some harmonization
help business combine tools to yield an effective
approach
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13. Need more info?
Go to: www.wbcsd.org
– Download the tools freely
– FAQs, dataset details definitions
– How to use guides
Any suggestions, comments, questions?
GlobalWaterTool@wbcsd.org
Editor's Notes
Awareness with high level executives of the essential role of water in operations + basis for internal benchmarking (water intensity per unit of production + rates of recycling and reuse)
Country level data (charts and maps): Total renewable water resources per person + projections to 2025 and 2050 (FAO) Total water withdrawal per person (FAO) Industrial water withdrawal as part of total (FAO) Population served with improved water (WHO/UNICEF) Population served with improved sanitation (WHO/UNICEF) Dependency ratio (FAO) Urban annual growth rate (UN) Watershed level data (charts and maps): Annual renewable water supply per person 1995 and 2025 (WRI) Mean annual relative water stress index (UNH) Environmental water scarcity index (IWMI) Physical and economic water scarcity (IWMI) Biodiversity hotspots (CI)
By watershed scarcity level, it calculates: Water withdrawal, discharge and consumption Water recycling, efficiency and intensity metrics
Data input and metrics output in the Excel file are customized to the four main types of power production: thermal, geothermal, solar photovoltaic/wind, hydro. Cooling water is considered separately from other process water. Influent and effluent quality parameters (total dissolved solids) are included. Data input and metrics output in the Excel file are customized to the eight main parts of the Oil and Gas Value Chain: Drilling, production, oil sands, transport, gas processing, refining, petrochemicals, retail