Despite increasing awareness of how water scarcity can hurt the bottom line, companies are not moving quickly enough to address water risks.
This year’s report gives well-deserved accolades to the companies demonstrating excellence in water stewardship, but also implores others to take swifter, bolder actions towards ensuring a water-secure economy and achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6.
This World Water Day, I am thrilled to release the 2019 update to the Mandate’s 2018-2020 Strategic Plan. I believe this plan represents the initiative’s most ambitious, impactful, and wide-reaching efforts in its 11-year history.
The Navigator is a completely free online tool that offers a roadmap for businesses to take a holistic approach to water management. It is supported by a practical guide to smart, sustainable water practices at the facility level the helps companies advance along a “Water Maturity Curve.”
This World Water Day, the CEO Water Mandate is thrilled to launch a beta version of Water Action Hub 3.0 – a collaboration between the Mandate and GIZ to highlight, share, and scale stewardship lessons learned around the world.
The AWS Standard 2.0 is the updated version of the International Water Stewardship Standard, the globally-endorsed definition of good water stewardship.
This year, UN-Water is leading a campaign to raise awareness and drive action in support of universal access to drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). Mandate endorsers are invited and urged to support this important effort through their own social media challenges.
A new report and interactive map examine the benefits and opportunities of installing sustainable landscapes on commercial and industrial properties, with a focus on the Santa Ana River Watershed in California.
Volumetric Benefit Accounting (VBA) is a new, practical approach developed to estimate the benefits of water stewardship activities.
The Special Rapporteur is gathering information on how mega-projects impact the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation.