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Global Forest Watch Water (2017)
Global Forest Watch Water is a global database and interactive mapping tool designed to help users find decision-relevant information on natural infrastructure to enhance water security.
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Global Groundwater Maps and U.S. Drought Forecasts (2020)
NASA researchers have developed new satellite-based, weekly global maps of soil moisture and groundwater wetness conditions and one to three-month U.S. forecasts of each product.
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Global Organic Textile Standard (2020)
The Global Organic Textile Standard is a leading textile processing standard for organic fibers, including ecological and social criteria, backed up by independent certification of the entire textile supply chain.
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Global Water Crisis: The Facts (2017)
This report highlights looming water crises from 6 inter-related contexts: water scarcity and insecurity, water-related disasters, water, sanitation and health (WASH) crisis, water infrastructure deterioration and destruction, unsustainable development, and ecosystem degradation.
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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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Green Cities: Good Health (2019)
This web site provides an overview of the scientific evidence of human health and well-being benefits provided by urban forestry and urban greening.
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Grey Water Footprint Accounting (2013)
These guidelines support Grey Water Footprint accounting at its simplest level, using the least detailed approach to estimate the Grey Water Footprint in the case of diffuse and direct pollution.
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Growing Water Risk Resilience: An Investor Guide on Agricultural Supply Chains (2018)
This guide outlines why and how investors engage on agricultural supply chain water risk.
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Guidance for Companies on Respecting the Human Rights to Water & Sanitation (2015)
This Guidance aims to help business effectively align corporate water stewardship practice with the corporate responsibility to respect the human rights to water and sanitation.
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Guidance on Menstrual Health and Hygiene (2019)
This guidance was developed for UNICEF WASH, Education, Health, and Gender specialists or focal points in country offices who are working with their partners to develop programs related to menstrual health and hygiene.
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Guide for Managing Integrity in Water Stewardship Initiatives (2015)
This guide seeks to build on the lessons learned from the pioneers of WSIs around the world. Through a practical lens, and focusing on the needs of practitioners, the ultimate aim of this guide is to support existing and future WSIs in creating tangible benefits for society by ensuring high levels of integrity and transparency.
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Guide to Menstrual Hygiene Materials (2019)
This document provides guidance for staff from the UNICEF Supply Division and Programme Division on the selection and procurement of appropriate materials and supplies for menstrual hygiene management, particularly during humanitarian response.
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Guide to Responsible Business Engagement with Water Policy (2010)
This Guide provides a way for companies to address water risks and capture opportunities stemming from river basins conditions that cannot be achieved through changes in internal water management alone. The goal of this Guide is to make a compelling case for responsible water policy engagement and to support it with insights, strategies, and tactics needed to do so effectively.
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Guide to Water-Related Collective Action (2012)
Establish enduring relationships with a broad spectrum of stakeholders, leaders, and individuals to advance sustainable water management.
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H&M – Human Right to Water and Sanitation
H&M is committed to ensuring that water is used responsibly throughout the company’s value chain. H&M does this to minimize risks in its operations, to protect the environment and to secure the availability of water for people.
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Half Full or Half Empty?: Water-Related Risks and Emerging Opportunities for Financial Institutions (2007)
These guidelines address the broad range of water related risks that are faced by financial institutions and the flip-side of those risks – the significant and growing water related opportunities.
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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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HERProject: Investing in Women for a Better World (2007)
HERProject is a multi-stakeholder collaborative initiative that strives to empower low-income women working in global supply chains. Through health awareness and health behavior change, HERproject is showing the value of investing in women’s health along supply chains worldwide.
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High and Dry: Climate Change, Water, and the Economy (2016)
The impacts of climate change will be channeled primarily through the water cycle, with consequences that could be large and uneven across the globe. Water is a vital factor of production, so diminishing water supplies can translate into slower growth that cloud economic prospects.
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High Level Panel on Water (2018)
In 2016 the United Nations and the World Bank Group convened a High Level Panel on Water (HLPW) to provide the leadership required to champion a comprehensive, inclusive and collaborative way of developing and managing water resources, and improving water and sanitation services.
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Hygiene Matters Research Initiative (2016)
Swedish pulp and paper company SCA has partnered with WSSCC to create a common platform for raising awareness about the importance of hygiene and sanitation and challenging taboos surrounding personal hygiene.
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Iberdrola’s Operational Improvements and Supplier Engagement (2015)
Iberdrola champions operational water efficiency throughout its value chain.
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ICMM Position Statement on Water Stewardship (2017)
This position statement sets out International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) members’ approach to water stewardship.
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ICMM Water Stewardship Framework (2014)
This framework provides a common direction, a consistent point of reference and a shared language for companies to continue their water stewardship journey together.
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ICMM’s Practical Guide to Consistent Water Reporting (2017)
ICMM has developed this guide to support the industry in making consistent, transparent and material water reports, based on key elements of existing disclosure and accounting systems
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Improving Smallholder Farmers (SHF) Nutrition
GAIN, Unilever, and the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) saw an opportunity to improve the nutrition and health of farmers, workers and their families in supply chains, while working to increase supplier and worker satisfaction, productivity and brand loyalty.
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Incorporating Multiple Benefits into Water Projects: A Guide for Water Managers (2020)
This guidebook uses a “multi-benefit framework” to provide a modular, flexible approach for water managers interested in incorporating multiple benefits into water management decisions.
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Insights from China’s Textile Manufacturers: Gaps to Overcome for Clean and Circular Fashion (2017)
The textile industry can use this report to target their actions on the most pressing issues and as a guide for their engagement with manufacturers to advance the transition to a circular apparel economy.
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Integrating the SDGs into Corporate Reporting: Practical Guide (2018)
This guide helps businesses move beyond the current trend of simply mapping activities and programs against the SDGs to driving change.
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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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Introduction to Hygiene Promotion: Tools and Approaches (2009)
This manual contains training materials and handouts to enable facilitators to rapidly prepare training for different levels of hygiene promotion.
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InVEST (2018)
InVEST is a suite of free, open-source software models used to map and value goods and services from nature.
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Investigating Food and Agribusiness Corporations as Global Water Security, Management and Governance Agents: The Case of Nestlé, Bunge and Cargill (2012)
This article investigates how and why some of the world’s largest food and agribusiness corporations engage in global water management and governance in agro-food value chains and political economy networks, and in the emerging forms of transnational water governance.
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Investing in Forested Landscapes for Source Water Protection in the US (2013)
This publication offers comprehensive guidance on the economics, science, partnerships, and finance mechanisms underlying successful efforts to secure the water-related functions of forests and other ecosystems.
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Investor Risk Analysis: Why Groundwater Matters (2017)
Groundwater depletion confronts companies with existential threats, urging them to assess risks and use groundwater in evidence-base, sustainable manner. The knowledge about (the state and the trends of) these resources need to substantially increase for the benefit of all: the investors, society and environment.
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IRC Wash Tools
Tools and guidance for providing WASH services that last.
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ISO and Water (2017)
Document describing the relevant ISO standards for water.
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ITP Destination Water Risk Index (2018)
The Index is designed to provide evidence and rationale to prioritize water conservation in capital allocation, development and renovation decisions, and operational focus in these top risk destination locations.
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IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions (2020)
The IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions is a user-friendly framework for the verification, design and scaling up of Nature-based Solutions.
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IWRM Action Plan Searcher (2021)
The IWRM Action Searcher is a database of priority actions for advancing IWRM as a means of achieving broader water-related objectives.
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LafargeHolcim Pledges Support for WASH Initiatives
LarfargeHolcim has committed to the WBCSD WASH Pledge, and is supporting the Open-Defecation Free (ODF) India initiative by using its cement and building materials expertise to construct 3 million toilets.
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Launch of SDG 6 Indicator Reports (2018)
Seven reports that track progress towards the various targets set out in SDG 6 using the SDG global indicators.
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Leveraging the Power of Collaborations (2020)
This report explores the dynamics driving the evolution of company collaboration in and across sectors and highlights some of the innovative models that have developed.
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Live: Country Experiences on COVID-19 and WASH (2020)
This live-blog shares WASH approaches Sanitation and Water for All partners are taking in response to the COVID-19 emergency.
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Lockheed Martin’s Water Use Efficiency Program (2015)
Lockheed Martin reduced water usage by 25% between 2010 and 2015.
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Make Way for the Future of Sanitation (2020)
This report provides a review of new enterprise models shaping the development of a transformational sanitation economy.
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Making Every Drop Count: An Agenda for Water Action (2018)
This report lays out specific recommendations and new initiatives for action in pursuit of safe water for all, managed sustainably.
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Maneuvering Towards a Water Safe Future (2018)
This report aims both to draw attention to the severity of the water crisis and to illustrate that new forms of partnership are essential to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
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Mapping the Oil and Gas Industry to the Sustainable Development Goals (2017)
The Atlas explores the links between the oil and gas industry and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and seeks to facilitate a shared understanding of how the industry can most effectively support the achievement of the SDGs.
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Market Scan Tool
The objective of a Market Scan is to identify potential partners with water intensive businesses and water risks with regard to water stewardship activities in order to increase engagement with corporate partners.