The Water Resilience Coalition is an industry-driven, CEO-led initiative to address the global water crisis.
We aim to elevate action on mounting water stress and its connection to climate change to the top of the global corporate agenda.
WRC members work to preserve the world’s freshwater resources through collective action in water-stressed basins and through ambitious, quantifiable goals.
We are an initiative of the CEO Water Mandate between the UN Global Compact and the Pacific Institute.
We will achieve Positive Water Impact in over 100 water-stressed basins that support over 3 billion people
We will enable equitable and resilient water access, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) for over 300 million people
To achieve our 2030 ambition, the WRC will employ strategies related to 4 approaches:
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- Scaling Proven SolutionsÂ
- Advancing Innovation
- Leveraging Finance
- Measuring Impact
Positive Water Impact: Invest in operational efficiency, in compensating for the water footprint, and in collective actions in the company’s priority water-stressed basins, addressing critical risks including availability, quality, and accessibility.
Resilient Value Chains: Develop, implement, and enable strategies and actions to support leading impact-based water resilience practices across the global value chain.
Global leadership: Raise the global ambition of water resilience through public and corporate outreach.
As part of our 2030 ambition, the WRC’s 100 priority basins target key watersheds around the world for collective action on water.
The WRC selected the basins in collaboration with our members and partners (see map caption) based on the levels of water stress and potential for positive impact.
Search the basin list and explore our interactive map to find which basins your company operates in and what water resilience projects already exist on the ground.
Positive Water Impact (PWI) is a dynamic framework that supports corporates on their water stewardship journey and that enables long-term water resilience in water-stressed basins where it matters most.
Pioneered by the CEO Water Mandate and WRC, delivering PWI contributes toward reducing water stress in its multiple dimensions: water availability (quantity), water quality, and water access. The goal is for a company to contribute to a healthy basin and to exceed its negative impacts in the same region. PWI positions water stewardship as an ongoing journey, not a destination.
PWI is quantifiable against the three dimensions of water stress, aligns with established methodologies (e.g., context and science-based water targets), and can be measured via both short-term outputs and long-term outcomes.
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