Water Awareness and Internal Capacity
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A Safe Operating Space for Humanity (2009)
This report proposes a framework based on ‘planetary boundaries’ for defining biophysical preconditions for human development.
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Action Brief 3.1: Action Learning Projects (2018)
The projects aim to assess the current water use trends, identify and map out the key stakeholders, shared water-related risks, challenges and opportunity at the site and catchment level, and develop a water stewardship plan following the framework of AWS Standard.
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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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ARIES (2020)
ARIES strives to quantify the benefits that nature provides to society in a manner that accounts for dynamic complexity and its consequences, but keeps models clear enough to users to remain understandable, usable, and adaptable to conditions of varying data availability.
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Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment Tool (2018)
This tool is a GIS-based hydrologic modeling tool designed for both novice and expert GIS users.
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Avaliando os benefícios das Soluções Baseadas na Natureza para o planejamento de bacias hidrográficas (2020)
Esta avaliação da paisagem é o resultado da Fase 1 de um projeto de três fases e foi projetada para informar o caminho a se seguir para envolver o setor privado no investimento em soluções baseadas na natureza (SBN).
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Bending the Curve of Global Freshwater Biodiversity Loss: An Emergency Recovery Plan (2020)
This report presents an Emergency Recovery Plan to bend the curve of freshwater biodiversity loss.
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Benefit Accounting of Nature-Based Solutions for Watersheds: Guide (2021)
This guide indicates which specific NBS activities can be implemented in various habitats and suggests methods for measuring the benefits.
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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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Breede Catchment Water Stewardship Programme – Summary Report (2016)
Learn about collective action and collaborative water management from a real-world example in South Africa.
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CDP Supply Chain Report 2018
The report uses CDP’s supply chain program data submissions to evaluate the activities of reporting organizations as a group, and to identify meaningful insights about the private sector’s impact on climate change, water, and deforestation.
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CEO Guide to Water (2018)
This guide lays out the business case for water, outlining physical and non-physical water-related risks and presents significant business opportunities connected to water.
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Climate Change Trends and Impacts on California Agriculture: A Detailed Review (2018)
This paper provides evidence that the climate in California has changed significantly and is expected to continue changing, and showcases the need for enhancing the adaptive capacity of agriculture and reducing vulnerability to climate change.
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Climate Change, Water, and Risk: Current Water Demands Are Not Sustainable (2010)
This analysis, performed by consulting firm Tetra Tech for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), examined the effects of global warming on water supply and demand in the contiguous United States.
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Collaborative Conservation and Adaptation Strategy Toolbox (CCAST) (2018)
The Southwest Climate Hub, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and Forest Service have collaborated to create an online library of conservation case studies.
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Collective Action for Water Security and Sustainability: Preliminary Investigations (2014)
This study determines success and failure factors and effective tools or mechanisms to facilitate multi-stakeholder engagement processes in India based on identified global and domestic case studies.
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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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Corporate Water Stewardship and the Case for Green Infrastructure (2018)
This report makes the case for private sector investment in green infrastructure as part of a broader water stewardship approach.
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Desalination’s Role in a Circular Water Economy Research Brief (2020)
This research brief highlights key policy insights from the publication “Desalination for a Circular Water Economy” in Energy and Environmental Sciences.
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Digital Technology Opportunities for the Colorado River Basin (2019)
This report is intended to profile the potential opportunities of emerging digital technologies to address the water quality and quantity challenges faced by public and private entities in the Basin.
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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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Drought Stress Testing Tool (2017)
The ‘Drought Stress Testing Tool’ allows financial institutions to see how incorporating drought scenarios changes the perception of risk in their own loan portfolios, based on the catastrophe modelling framework that the insurance industry has used for 25 years. The Excel-based tool is free to access and use but users must email for access.
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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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Ecosystem Services Assessment: How to Do One in Practice (2013)
This guide integrates learning from a range of published ecosystem services case studies and applies it in logical steps to help practitioners make their own ecosystem services assessments.
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Environment Live (2019)
Environment Live is a dynamic on-line platform from the UN Environment’s Science division for sharing contextualized data and knowledge to keep the environment under review.
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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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GeoCLIM (2018)
The GeoCLIM consists of user-friendly tools designed for climatological analysis of historical rainfall and temperature data to enable climate-smart agricultural development.
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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 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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Grand Etang Forest Reserve, Grenada (2017)
This partnership intends to improve the management of the Grand Etang Lake as a water reservoir for southern Grenada’s drinking water supply, with the additional benefit of an eco-friendly use of the lake by local and international visitors.
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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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Groundwater Exchange (2018)
The Groundwater Exchange is an online resource center connecting water managers, water users, and community members with tools and resources to support the design and implementation of effective Groundwater Sustainability Plans under California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
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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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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 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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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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Hotel Water Measurement Initiative (2016)
Measure and report on your hotels’ water use in a consistent manner.
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Imarisha Naivasha Water Stewardship Partnership (2017)
The Imarisha Naivasha Water Stewardship Programme wanted to improve the water availability for communities and businesses in the Lake Naivasha Basin and to improve the water quality by implementing soil and water conservation activities and community water projects.
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Improved Community Livelihoods and Sustainable Water Management in the River Rwizi Catchment (2017)
This partnership has shown that stakeholder buy-in is a crucial element for the success of the Act Phase. In the case of the partnership in the River Rwizi catchment, ensuring the buy-in and understanding of all stakeholders significantly helped facilitate the implementation of activities and also increased the overall sustainability of the interventions.
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Inalca SpA Partners with Ecolab to Reduce Water Use in Rieti Meat Processing Plant (2017)
This case study highlights how Ecolab worked with Inalca SpA to identify methods for reducing water consumption in their meat processing plant located in Rieti, Italy. By updating water treatment technology, boiler automation, and water reuse, Inalca SpA saved 3.7 million gallons of water, 670,300 kWh of energy, and $72,000 in annual operating costs.
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Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) (2018)
Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) is a software program that allows water resource managers, hydrologists, ecologists, researchers and policy makers to assess how rivers, lakes and groundwater basins have been affected by human activities over time – or to evaluate future water management scenarios.
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International Water Stewardship Standard & Guidance (2014)
Use a six-step continual improvement framework to commit to, understand, plan, implement, evaluate and communicate water stewardship actions.
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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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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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Itawa Springs Protection Project
The Imarisha Naivasha Water Stewardship Programme wanted to improve the water availability for communities and businesses in the Lake Naivasha Basin and to improve the water quality by implementing soil and water conservation activities and community water projects.