Task forces offer a unique, voluntary opportunity for in-depth collaboration with a select group of peer companies and subject matter experts. Taskforce members will contribute their expertise and insights to help ensure Positive Water Impact remains a leading, globally relevant framework for corporate water stewardship across industries, driving continued excellence in best practices and shaping the future of water management.
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The Collaborative Model Taskforce is focused on shaping and testing the basin collaborative approach. The taskforce reviews and refines the Collaborative expansion model for implementation, explores pathways to expand Collaboratives across 100 priority basins, and pilots supporting tools through the Water Action Hub. It also provides oversight on the status, prioritization, and implementation of basin Collaboratives to ensure consistency, effectiveness, and scalability.
The Digital & Innovation Taskforce will advance water resilience and efficiency through the strategic use of emerging technologies and digital solutions in priority basins. The taskforce will convene companies, technology providers, and development partners to align funding, expertise, and implementation efforts. Its focus is on accelerating the deployment of innovative, scalable solutions that address urgent basin-level water challenges. Through cross-industry collaboration, the taskforce aims to transform water management practices, set new standards for efficiency and resilience, and contribute to achieving Positive Water Impact by 2050.
The task force will focus on continuously strengthening PWI as a North Star guidance and an enterprise-level ambition. This task force will develop the scope of work, help broaden the current focus of PWI guidance (direct operations), and identify opportunities for scaling this ambition across a company’s value chain. The outcome will be practical guidance companies can use when working with suppliers and/or clients. The CEO Water Mandate will draft the scope and guidance, and companies are expected to review the documents. There will also be an opportunity to pilot the draft guidance and support further refinement of the approach.
The task force will address five key topics:
- Learnings from the implementation and continuous evolution of existing materials,
- The practicality of the Internal Tracking Framework,
- Developing guidance for the value chain,
- Reviewing and finalizing the supplementary document on ‘How Positive Water Impact relates to the Water Resilience Coalition’
- Maturing the PWI validation and claims processes and associated train-the-trainer program.
The Water Resilience Coalition (WRC) Investment Portfolio strategy represents an important pathway to increase financing and investments in water resilience by leveraging innovative impact investment mechanisms that solve corporate challenges in financing water goals and attract increased public and private capital.
The Investment Portfolio Task Force’s role is one of strategic input into the curation of investment opportunities that will best serve to enable the achievement of the WRC’s 2030 100 basin ambitions – including the optimization of corporate engagement in identified collective investment opportunities. The taskforce will help identify, review and make recommendations on investment opportunities /priorities, in addition to facilitating engagement and knowledge sharing across member companies and partner organizations.