New to water? Try these first steps.
If your company has no experience with water stewardship, here are some helpful first steps to help you begin your stewardship practice.- Step 1: Familiarize yourself with water challenges and stewardship
- Step 2: Determine how and to what extent water is relevant to your company?
- Step 3: Begin exploring the Water Stewardship Progression. Below are some tips on how to get started.
FIRST STEPS FOR OPERATIONS MANAGERS
Facility managers can begin their stewardship practice with:Operations
Operations actions help save money, increase worker engagement and productivity, and help manage adverse impacts on people and ecosystems.Resources
- The WBCSD WASH in the Workplace Self-Assessment Tool is a good place to start for implementing WASH services.
- The Alliance for Water Stewardship’s Water Stewardship Standard offers a comprehensive look at stewardship practice at the site-level.
Communication
Communication actions help establish enduring stakeholder relationships and ensure the facility’s license to operate.Resources
- The CEO Water Mandate’s Corporate Water Disclosure Guidelines offer insight into how to engage stakeholders on water.
FIRST STEPS FOR CORPORATE OFFICES
Sustainability directors and other corporate employees can begin work in three key areas:Operations
Operations activities allow your company to immediately reduce its water use and pollution and related impacts.Resources
- The Ceres’ Aqua Gauge offers a comprehensive overview of water management practices at the corporate-level.
Context
Context activities ensure you have the data and analysis needed to make the case for action on water across the company and to form a strategic, comprehensive water policy. These Context analyses are the gateway to truly impactful, robust water stewardship practice and should be conducted as soon as possible.Resources
- WBCSD Global Water Tool
- WFN Water Footprint Assessment Tool
- WRI Aqueduct
- WWF Water Risk Filter
Communication
Communication helps expose a company to an even wider range of information and perspectives and therefore to develop strategies and actions that create shared value.Resources
- The CEO Water Mandate’s Corporate Water Disclosure Guidelines offer insight into how to engage stakeholders on water.