Reports & Discussion Papers
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Drinking Water Guide: A Resource for Advocates (2019)
River Network’s Drinking Water Guide is a first step in helping to create a more informed and engaged national network of advocates for safe, clean, affordable, and sustainable drinking water systems.
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Driving Harmonization of Water-Related Terminology (2014)
The Mandate Secretariat along with participating organizations have attempted to reach shared understanding of water-related terminology, while also identifying areas where there is divergence in understanding.
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Earth Security Index 2016: Business Diplomacy for Sustainable Development (2016)
The Earth Security Index provides leaders in business, government and society with a way to assess forces and scenarios that can shape a country’s development challenges, including water insecurity, water pollution, water virtual imports, and more.
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Easing the Transition to Commercial Finance for Sustainable Water and Sanitation (2017)
This report articulates a framework for innovative financing to achieve SDG6, particularly targets 6.1–6.4.
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Engaging the Private Sector in Water Security (2018)
The 2030 Agenda calls explicitly for a rekindling of the global partnership (SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals) and provides the impetus to move from a fragmented to an integrated, multistakeholder approach to development. Participation of the private sector is vital in this multistakeholder approach.
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Equity and Inclusion Framework (2010)
This framework provides a common platform from which to develop detailed guidance and plans of action in different areas of work on WASH. It includes minimum standards to apply in each area, and guidance on areas to work on over time.
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Exploring the Business Case for Corporate Action on Sanitation (2014)
The global sanitation crisis is one of the most critical sustainable development challenges facing the world today. This discussion paper explores the business case for corporate action on sanitation and identifies several ways the private sector can make an impact.
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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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Feeding Ourselves Thirsty (2019)
This analysis provides investors with guidance and relevant data for evaluating the water risk management of publicly held companies in the food sector.
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Financial Risks & Opportunities in Agricultural Supply Chains (2017)
Agriculture’s environmental and social challenges are felt at every stage of food production, typically affecting farmers first, and then rippling across the supply chain to impact traders, distributors, processors and retailers.
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Freshwater Resources: Managing the Risks Facing the Private Sector (2004)
This paper provides a snapshot of current global water issues, assesses the water-related risks most relevant for the business community, and describes the general kinds of activities companies can take to address them.
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From Doing Better to Doing Enough: Anchoring Corporate Sustainability Targets in Science (2016)
This paper discusses what managers must consider when attempting to set science-based targets for their impact on the climate, land and water.
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From Footprint to Public Policy: The Business Future For Addressing Water Issues (2009)
This paper features a roadmap of water risk identification and management approaches that many companies use to address water issues, framed as a journey from water footprint to public policy.
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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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From Water Management to Water Stewardship—A Policy Maker’s Opinion on the Progress of the Mining Sector (2019)
This paper overviews the drivers that have resulted in the mining sector expanding its approach from water management within the operational fence line to catchment water stewardship, along with some major obstacles to continued progress.
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Getting in Step: Engaging Stakeholders in Your Watershed (2013)
This guide is intended to assist agencies, organizations, and companies involved with watershed management activities with building a stakeholder group.
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GLASA State of the Apparel Sector Report (2015)
The analysis presented in this report describes what water challenges mean for the apparel industry, and what practices are currently underway to reduce the water footprint of apparel and textiles.
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Global CSR Risk & Performance Index 2018
The 2018 EcoVadis Index tracks CSR performance in global supply chains across hundreds of industry categories and countries.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Managing Menstruation in the Workplace (2016)
This academic paper focuses on the importance of providing adequate menstrual hygiene management for women and girls in the workplace.
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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 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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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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Mississippi Headwaters: The Business Case for Conservation (2019)
This report analyzes the benefits and costs of improving water quality in the Mississippi Headwaters through land preservation and restoration.
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Mitigating Corporate Water Risk (2012)
This paper proposes a decision framework for business water-risk response that considers financial instruments and supply management strategies.
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Natural Capital Protocol (2019)
The Protocol offers a standardized framework for the identification, measurement, and valuation of impacts and dependencies on natural capital in order to inform organizational decisions.
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Natural Infrastructure for Business Platform (2015)
Strengthen the business case for investment in natural infrastructure.
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Natural infrastructure in the nexus (2015)
This paper discusses how natural infrastructure, the networks of land and water that provide services to people, can help decision makers and infrastructure managers address interconnected challenges facing water, energy and food systems, often referred to as the “nexus.”
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Nature and Health (2014)
This article presents the state of knowledge with regards to human health and well-being from contact with nature.
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Nature-Based Solutions for Water (2018)
The United Nations World Water Development Report for 2018.
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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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No Water No Growth (2018)
This report seeks to provide an overview of the way in which the social and economic development of continental Asia is dependent on the resources of ten rivers.
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On the Frontline: the State of the World’s Water 2020
This analysis examines how climate change is making it harder for people in the world’s poorest countries to rely on being able to drink clean water every day and calls for urgent action from governments and the international community to include safe water and sanitation plans for dealing with the impacts of climate change.