Measure & Monitor
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Aqua Gauge (2011)
Inform and strengthen your company’s water management strategies and allow your investors to evaluate current water management activities against detailed definitions of leading practice.
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At the Crest of a Wave: A Proactive Approach to Corporate Water Strategy (2007)
This report provides guidance on developing and implementing a water strategy based around innovation, investment, and collaboration.
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Beverage Industry Continues to Drive Improvement in Water, Energy, and Emissions Efficiency (2019)
The tenth Benchmarking Study released by the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) is a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative benchmark of water, energy, and emissions efficiency in the beverage industry.
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Blue Peace Index (2019)
The Blue Peace Index is a research tool that measures how well countries manage transboundary water resources.
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Chemicals Management Module (2015)
Benchmark, establish, build, maintain and improve chemicals management processes, and integrate them with other business processes as part of your overall corporate management system.
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Connecting the Drops Toward Creative Water Strategies
Use data from your facility to generate a broad assessment of risks regarding the local watershed, supply reliability, efficiency, compliance with regulations, supply economics, and social context.
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Corporate Water Accounting (2010)
This report can help your company understand what is most valuable to account for and assess regarding water management, what tools are available to execute such accounting, and what the various strengths and weaknesses of each approach are.
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Developing a Global Compendium on Water Quality Guidelines (2018)
This report lays the groundwork for an online compendium to improve access to examples of water quality guidelines and facilitate a better understanding of how water quality demand and supply can contribute to appropriate and economical multi-sectoral water resource management.
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Ecolab’s Taicang Facility Achieves Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) Standard Certification (2017)
This case study presents the journey Ecolab took with WWF and the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) to certify its Taicang facility as the world’s first manufacturing facility to meet the AWS standard certification requirements.
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EDF-GEMI WaterMAPP – A Water Management Application Efficiency Toolkit (2014)
Assess your company’s water efficiency, create visibility for water performance at facilities, estimate water and financial savings from cooling tower or free-air cooling improvements.
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Exploring the Case for Corporate Context-Based Water Targets (2017)
In order to contribute to long-term risk mitigation and tackle increasing water challenges, corporate water targets must be informed by the best available science on hydro-ecological conditions at the basin level, informed by contextual social needs, and aligned with local to global public policy objectives.
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From Waste to Resource : Shifting Paradigms for Smarter Wastewater Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean (2020)
This report summarizes the work of the World Bank’s initiative “Wastewater: From Waste to Resource,” launched to raise awareness among decision makers regarding the potential of wastewater as a resource.
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geoFootprint (2019)
geoFootprint is a public and collaborative tool that gives instant access to the environmental footprint of agricultural crops on a world map.
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Global Environment Monitoring System for Freshwater (2019)
The Global Environment Monitoring System for freshwater (GEMS/Water) collects worldwide water quality data for assessments of status and trends in global inland water quality.
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Global Water Footprint Standard (2011)
The Global Water Footprint Assessment Standard can be used to provide comparable quantification and robust analytics, helping corporations, governments, and researchers manage water resources and achieve greater water sustainability.
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Global Water Tool (2011)
The Global Water Tool (GWT) is a free, publicly available resource for identifying corporate water risks and opportunities which provides easy access to and analysis of critical data.
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Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution for Water (2018)
This report, focused on water, is part of a series designed to illustrate the potential of Fourth Industrial Revolution innovations and their application to the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
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Hotel Water Measurement Initiative (2016)
Measure and report on your hotels’ water use in a consistent manner.
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India Water Tool (2019)
The India Water Tool brings together 20 datasets and risk indicators to help users understand their water risks in India.
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Internet of Water: Sharing and Integrating Water Data for Sustainability (2017)
This report provides a principle-based blueprint recommending a 3-step plan for how to design and launch a feasible and operable “Internet of Water” – a network of interconnected data producers, hubs, and users.
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Local Water Tool (2015)
Evaluate water-related external impacts, business risks and sufficiency of management plans at specific sites. Users register for free access to the tools with GEMI.
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Mapping Public Water Management: Proof of Concept (2020)
This technical note tests a novel data collection approach that relies on crowdsourcing data from multinational enterprises with operations across many geographies.
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Navigating Rough Waters: Businesses and Investors Must Adapt for a Water-Stressed Future (2016)
This report is intended to inform both businesses and investors about the reality, risks, and opportunities of water stresses.
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Sharing Good Practice in Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) Standard Implementation (2020)
This report provides findings on good practices of AWS Standard implementation.
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Smart Water Navigator (2019)
The Smart Water Navigator is based on a simple, 13-question assessment that offers a practical guide to smart, sustainable water practices, providing a roadmap that will help your facilities improve the way they use water.
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Soil and Water Assessment Tool (2018)
This tool can be used to simulate the quality and quantity of surface and ground water and predict the environmental impact of land use, land management practices, and climate change.
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SUSFARMS Sustainability Tool (2019)
The Sustainable Sugarcane Farm Management System (SUSFARMS®) is a farming system designed to encourage sustainable, responsible sugarcane production through the implementation of better management practices (BMPs).
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The AWS E-Standard and Guidance (2020)
The AWS E-Standard and Guidance is an online, interactive version of the AWS Standard 2.0, a globally-applicable framework for major water users to understand their water use and impacts, and to work collaboratively and transparently for sustainable water management within a catchment context.
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The AWS International Water Stewardship Standard (2014)
AWS Standard is a globally-applicable framework for major water users to understand their water use and impacts, and to work collaboratively and transparently for sustainable water management within a catchment context.
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The Business Case for Sustainable Hotels (2020)
This report offers research that analyzes the business case for sustainable hotels under six categories, and provides recommendations, evidence and actions for each partner in the property value chain.
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The Fieldprint Calculator (2017)
Understand how management choices impact sustainability and operational efficiency on corn, cotton, rice, wheat, potato, and soybean farms.
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The Higg Index (2022)
Measure the environmental and social impact of your apparel products and operations.
The Higgs Index Tools are hosted by Worldly and are available as part of a subscription service.
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The KPMG Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting (2017)
This study is intended to help companies unsure about how to report on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) understand where to start and what good SDG reporting looks like.
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The Life Cycle of a Jean (2015)
This case study looks closely at a pair of Levi Strauss & Co. stone wash jeans with the goal of helping companies in the apparel sector take more effective and holistic approaches to the industry’s environmental impact.
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The Water Network (2015)
Share water-related content, best practices, policies, and technologies.
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Towards Sustainable Mining: Water Stewardship Protocol (2019)
The purpose of the assessment protocol is to provide guidance to facilities in completing their evaluation of water stewardship performance against TSM indicators.
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Using Smart Technology to Monitor Stockholm’s Water Systems (2017)
Water Monitoring Networks is a project developed by Ericsson in collaboration with city officials and university researchers to create a connected water quality monitoring system throughout Stockholm.
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Virtual Water: Its Implications on Agriculture and Trade (2018)
This paper considers questions of gaps in knowledge, why sustainability matters, and the policy implications of virtual water trade.
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Water Disclosure 2.0 (2009)
This study aims to better understand current water-related corporate reporting practices. Specifically, it looks to illustrate various forms of reporting approaches and contents, identify commonalities, differences, and gaps among water reports, and present its findings as guidance for future corporate water reporting.
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Water Footprint Assessment (2012)
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Water Resource Users Associations Capacity Assessment Tool (2017)
The Water Resource Users Associations (WRUA) Capacity Assessment Tool is intended to assess organizational capacity of a WRUA in order to improve the performance of the management of water resources.
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Water Risk Monetizer (2021)
The Ecolab Smart Water Navigator is an easy to use, online tool designed to help protect your business and ensure continued growth. It offers a proven methodology to help organizations bridge the gap between corporate goals and local action.
This free, publicly available tool requires registration to access
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Water Stewardship in Sustainable Agriculture: Farm and Catchment Level Assessments (2015)
Understand the steps required for farm-level water stewardship in a catchment context.