Task Forces

This taskforce’s role is one of strategic input into the curation of investment opportunities that will best serve to achieve the WRC’s 2030 100 basin ambitions – including the optimization of corporate engagement in identified collective investment opportunities. The task force will help identify, review, and make recommendations on investment opportunities /priorities and facilitate engagement and knowledge sharing across member companies and partner organizations.

The taskforce will focus on continuously strengthening NPWI 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 NPWI 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 the expectation is that the companies 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 There will also be an opportunity to pilot the draft guidance and support further refinement of the approach.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:

1. Learnings from the implementation and continuous evolution of existing materials,
2. The practicality of the Internal Tracking Framework,
3. Developing guidance for the value chain,
4. Reviewing and finalizing the supplementary document on ‘How Net Positive Water Impact relates to the Water Resilience Coalition’
5. Maturing the NPWI validation and claims processes and associated train-the-trainer program.

This task force will focus on understanding and measuring current and future basin stress, the impacts the WRC and basin collaborative bodies have, and basin monitoring. The focus will be through a data, AI, and digital tools lens. It will include baseline basin diagnostics, open-source basin data, specific impact metrics, basin dashboards, and impact tracking. Members will be asked to provide input and guidance on items including a standardized basin diagnostics template, basin data collection (data types, methods), and development of basin dashboards.

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.