Transcript Business Case for WBCSD Global Water Tool

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Contents
 Water Risks are Real Now
 Working Beyond Your Fenceline
 Do You Know Where Your Water Risks Are?
 Benefits of the Global Water Tool
 Tool Functions and Data Security
 Data Credibility
 Advisory Board and Supporting Organizations
 Simple Demo of Tool Use
 Testimonials
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Water Risks are Real Now
IPCC: Climate Change will
Increase Droughts and Floods
Population Growth will
Decrease Per Capita Availability
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Working on Water Beyond Your Fenceline
Business Need
Areas of Risk
Inside the Fenceline:
• Water for Operations
• Ability to Discharge
Inside the Fenceline:
Supply Chain
Operations
Beyond the Fenceline:
• Healthy
Communities and
workforce
• Strong Supply
Chains
Beyond the Horizon:
• Healthy and Strong
Global Consumer Markets
• Access to Clean Water for
Product Use
• Stranded Assets
• Rising Costs
Beyond the Fenceline:
Operations and
Product Design
Local
Communities
Global Consumer Markets
in Developed and
Developing Countries
• License to Operate
• Community and
Regulatory Pressure
• Health of Employees
• Competing Industries
• Supply Chain
Interruptions
Beyond the Horizon:
• Brand Image
• Health and Growth of
Consumer Markets
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More Corporate Water Risk Assessments
Pacific Institute:
 20% of companies mention water risk – only
a few of 139 companies address external
water landscape in evaluating risks
 Lack of context in reporting
 Supply chain issues are often overlooked
Corporate Knights:
 Review of Canadian Companies with
operations in water scarce areas
Growing Call: Companies Need to Comprehensively
Evaluate and Address Water Risks and Impacts in
Operations and Supply Chains relative to External Factors
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Do you know…
 How many of your sites are in extremely
water-scarce areas? Which sites are at
greatest risk? How that will change in the
future?
 How many of your employees live in
countries that lack access to improved
water and sanitation?
 How many of your suppliers are in water
scarce areas now and will be in 2025?
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Risk Management on Global Water Issues
 Requires an understanding of a company’s
water needs in relation to local externalities:
 Water availability – current and projected
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Water quality
Water “stress” – people, environment and agriculture
Access to safe drinking water sources
Access to sanitation
Population/industrial growth
 Company’s needs = owned operations,
employees, and supply chain…….and
ultimately customers
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Advisory Board & Organizations
Leader: CH2M HILL
Air Products and
Chemicals
Alcan
Alcoa
Anglo American
Borealis
ConocoPhillips
Degussa
The Dow Chemical
Company
Data provided by:
ITT Corporation
Kimberly Clark
Lafarge
PepsiCo
Petro-Canada
Rio Tinto
World Health
Organization & UNICEF
Joint Monitoring
Programme
Sanyo
Shell
Suez
DuPont
Syngenta
GrupoNueva
Unilever
Expertise provided by:
Holcim
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Data Credibility
Food and
Agriculture
Organization (FAO)
AQUASTAT
World Health
Organization & UNICEF
Joint Monitoring
Program (JMP)
World
Resources
Institute
(WRI)
University of
New
Hampshire
(UNH), USA
 Dataset owners gave permission to WBCSD for use in the Tool
 Original datasets have not been modified
 The datasets
 Have global coverage
 Are available in the public domain
 Are considered valid by the global community of water
stakeholders
 Are recent
 Will be updated
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Benefits of the Global Water Tool
 Compares your company’s water uses (including staff presence,
industrial use, and supply chain) with key external water-related
data
 Creates key water GRI Indicators, inventories, risk and
performance metrics and geographic mapping
 Establishes relative water risks in your company’s portfolio to
prioritize action
 Enables effective communication with internal and external
stakeholders on your company’s water issues
 Allows calculation of water consumption & efficiency
FREE
EASY-TO-USE
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Tool Functions and Data Security
Two Parts to the Tool:
1)
Excel Workbook: Inventory, GRI Indicators,
External Data Connection and Metrics
Calculations
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2)
GRI has endorsed tool
On-line Mapping Program
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Site Locations and External Water
Maps
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Google Earth interface for spatial
viewing
GRI Indicators on
total water
withdrawals
(EN8), water
recycled/reused
(EN10), and total
water discharge
(EN21) are
calculated for
each site,
country, region
and total.
Company data is kept secure by user –
not saved on WBCSD website
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Start Page
Limitation
The tool does
not provide
specific
guidance on
local
situations,
which
requires more
in-depth
systematic
analysis.
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Data Form – Easy Input Sheet
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Input Inventory Sheet
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Water Consumption and GRI Metrics
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Combined Company and Country Metrics
Level:
Sites
Workers
Suppliers
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Workbook Output – Charts
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Generate Maps
Click
Generate
Map
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GIS Mapping Application
Save As
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Save as PDF, JPEG…
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Other Global Maps Available
Access to Improved Water
Mean Annual Relative Water
Stress Index
Access to Improved Sanitation
Ratio of Industrial to
Total Water Use
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Map Sites with Google Earth
Click
Google
Earth
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Google Earth Interface – Global Perspective
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Testimonials
What some
users said
see www.wbcsd.org/web/watertool.htm for more...
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The Dow Chemical Company
The WBCSD Global Water Tool has provided a unique and
valuable perspective on the water use and relative corporate risks
in our global operations. We have used the metrics and mapping
results to review corporate risks communicate with internal
stakeholders. The user-friendly outputs in terms of Global
Reporting Initiative metrics are especially useful and we plan to
use the outputs of this tool in further external communication to
stakeholders as well.
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PepsiCo International
The new WBCSD Global Water Tool is a significant step in
addressing world water issues. It is the first tool of its kind
available in the public domain, and will have marked impact in
helping companies, governments, and other interested
stakeholders proactively assess and manage their water resource
risks.
The WBCSD Global Water Tool is intuitive to use, so the user is
able to get up to speed almost immediately on the basic
functionality of the Tool. As the user's familiarity increases, so do
the evident power and impact of the Tool.
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Petro-Canada
The Tool provides a company with a singular and holistic view of
its operations relative to water scarcity. Petro-Canada intends to
introduce the Tool to our business units and encourage them to
include its use in project decision making. We are looking forward
to the future development of the Tool to provide greater information
and therefore increased value to our business.
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Alcan
Water for Alcan is a key component to business sustainability and
a top priority in delivering on our EHS FIRSTTM commitments. The
WBCSD Global Water Tool is a powerful and very user-friendly
application to assess our global and regional water footprint in
order to visualize, communicate and assist in high level decision
making to deliver value for internal and external stakeholders.
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DuPont
DuPont supported the development of the WBCSD Global Water
Tool as we saw it as an effective means of putting our science to
work to develop sustainable, global solutions. The collaboration
among companies from major industry sectors has been
remarkable and has resulted in a tool of widespread applicability
and value. In our pilot testing, we found that this tool aligns with
our company’s publicly stated water conservation goals by
enabling us to focus our resources more effectively on operations
in locations where water resources are, or will be, under stress.
The Global Water Tool is already helping DuPont towards
achieving our vision of creating sustainable solutions essential to a
better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere. We’re confident
that others will find this tool to be just as valuable in helping them
with their sustainability efforts.
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Unilever
This tool should really help the new swimmers in the stream of
water business risk awareness to start to understand their own
issues; it is a really practical follow up to the Water Scenarios
which should have raised the issue of Water for Business.
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Shell
Water is a strategic issue for Shell in our operations and
communities around the world. Since we are active in over 130
countries and territories, we saw value in the development of a tool
that could provide portfolio perspective for identifying and
managing risk. We found the Global Water Tool easy-to-use and
the presentation of the output tables of great value for
communication on global water risk. We are also exploring how the
tool can be linked to our annual sustainability report.
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Borealis
The Global Water Tool provides a comprehensive and dynamic
picture of our operations' water footprint and is the basis for the
strategic management of water risks.
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ITT Corporation
The Global Water Tool is valuable for companies around the globe
that understand clean water resources are critical to business
success and must be managed effectively. The tool is not an end
to itself, but rather the beginning of a much deeper understanding
of the water situation in local business communities. We are
committed to using the tool at ITT to inform decision-making
across our company.
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CH2M HILL
Water risks to business and society are significant now and
expected to increase due to the impacts of climate change. The
WBCSD Global Water Tool is an example of the way business
must innovate in the future to proactively identify and address risks
to protect our shareholders, employees, communities and the
environment.
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