The CEO Water Mandate Secretariat welcomes EPMAPS: Agua de Quito, an Ecuadorian water utility, as its latest endorsing company!
WRI and MIT have developed a proven method to crowdsource local data through businesses to develop a unique water management geodatabase, which is now being scaled. Pinpointing areas with strong or weak water management will allow governments, utilities, businesses and investors to more precisely channel resources to places with the most need.
First convened in November 2017, the Task Force has seen some of its earliest benefit in linking together business representatives and government officials based on an urgent need and a common vision. It is this deepening relationship that will get the Western Cape through the worst drought in at least 300 years.
In 2014, the Mandate helped found the California Water Action Collaborative (CWAC) – unfortunately but affectionately termed “the quack.”
The CEO Water Mandate Secretariat welcomes The Dow Chemical Company as the latest company to join the Water Security through Stewardship Action Platform!
The CEO Water Mandate Secretariat welcomes Bayer as the latest company to join the Water Security through Stewardship Action Platform!
The CEO Water Mandate is excited to welcome Gruppo Hera as a signatory. Gruppo Hera is an Italian multiutility providing over 4.4 million citizens in 350 municipalities with waste management, drinking water treatment, wastewater treatment, and electricity and gas distribution services.
I have found that businesses tend to focus water stewardship efforts within their owned-and-operated facilities, because this is where they have the most influence and ability to affect changes in practice. However, the greatest water risks – and the greatest opportunities for improved management – often lie in companies’ supply chains.
The Action Platform officially launches today! Over the next three years, the Platform will advance the Mandate’s pioneering work on water stewardship. It will work with companies, UN entities, governments, NGOs, and other stakeholders to foster collective action, test water stewardship best practices, and mobilize business action.
Water crises have been among the top five global risks in each of the last seven years, according to the World Economic Forum. This year is no exception.