Water management and stewardship : taking stock of corporate water behaviour

Newborn, Peter; Dalton, James

doi:10.2305/iucn.ch.2016.16.en

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“…Specifically, the report referred to measures whose adoption would require behavior change from millions of farmers andindustrial and domestic water users. Seven years later, Newborne and Dalton (2016) found there had been little evolution by companies from business as usual on water. Their report, described as 'taking stock' of corporate action on water management and water stewardship, found that, while corporate concern about water risks was evident, companies interviewed in the study struggled to create a business case for action.…”

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The culture of water needs to change

Spencer¹

2021

Sustainable Industrial Water Use: Perspectives, Incentives, and Tools

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What is less well documented is how this is going to happen. By and large, not enough has been done to understand the obstacles to water-using industries addressing scarcity, water quality, ecosystem health and water equity issues, or the incentives that might encourage their participation. Isolated examples of collaboration between industry, water agencies, government, and other stakeholders can receive considerable attention but really only highlight the extent to which these parties normally work independently of one another. Despite the urgent need for change, water professionals largely continue to employ the same approaches, despite demand for water growing beyond supply in some regions and population growth, industrialization, urbanization, changing consumption patterns, and climate change creating new challenges. In this chapter, I argue that change needs to start with the attitudes of water professionals, who must encourage industry customers to participate in solving water problems through the development and celebration of new forms of collaboration. In short, so long as water professionals accept responsibility for solving industry's water problems, they will perpetuate the traditional agency relationship between utilities and customers, reinforcing industry's attitude that water is 'someone else's responsibility.' To start the change process, there is a need to look at the attitudes and culture of the water industryincluding how water professionals are trained, recognized, and rewardedto understand how these

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The culture of water needs to change

Spencer¹

2021

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“…Water stewardship has emerged across the private sector as the best approach to enhance corporate management of water [5,31]. The approach requires a commitment from companies to the sustainable management of shared water resources in the public interest through collective action with other businesses, governments, non-government organisations (NGOs) and communities [29].…”

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“…In reality, water stewardship as a formalised concept is relatively new being only a decade old. Considering the concept's relative infancy, most private sector companies are still in the early stages of its application, with implementation on the ground needing to catch-up with the high-level concepts [31].…”

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From Water Management to Water Stewardship—A Policy Maker’s Opinion on the Progress of the Mining Sector

Hamilton

2019

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Water is a critical resource for mining operations, as it is for many other water users within any local catchment. With operations often located in water scarce areas, mining companies are increasingly experiencing competition for access to water resources. Concerns over the potential adverse impacts of mining on these shared resources has resulted in the sectors water management approach and practices being challenged by external stakeholders including local communities. This paper overviews the drivers that have resulted in the mining sector expanding its approach from water management within the operational fence line to catchment water stewardship, some of the major obstacles to continued progress and the related needs for guidance, research and research applications.

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“…Different types of businesses exist across sectors: the ability to make a change, whether through improving technological efficiencies in the supply chain or through their role in social/corporate responsibility, directly impacts the different resource systems and their future allocations. Businesses have an increasing stake in being better stewards of resources, perhaps water, which is a result of encountered disruptions due to water supply challenges [45]. "Government" is a series of constructs and processes that make laws and regulations, represented (in democratic societies) by legislative, judicial, and executive branches.…”

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Developing Socio-Techno-Economic-Political (STEP) Solutions for Addressing Resource Nexus Hotspots

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Abstract:The challenge of meeting increasing water, energy, and food needs is linked not only to growing demands globally, but also to the growing interdependency between these interconnected resource systems. Pressures on these systems will emerge to become hotspots with different characteristics, and will require a fresh look at the challenges existing both within each of the resource systems and at their respective interfaces. Proposing solutions to address different resource hotspots must be multi-faceted and need to acknowledge the multiple dimensions of the biophysical water, energy, and food systems, and the players connected with them. This commentary first explores the multiple dimensions of water, energy, and food systems as these relate to government, business, and society. It then identifies contemporary critical questions at the interface of these stressed resource systems. A 3-Filter framework is then introduced for vetting the feasibility of proposed resource allocation scenarios and to account for the bio-physical resource interactions and trade-offs, the stakeholder interactions and trade-offs, and to address governance and financing schemes for carrying forward the implementation of those scenarios.

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Water management and stewardship : taking stock of corporate water behaviour

Cited by 16 publications

References 15 publications

The culture of water needs to change

The culture of water needs to change

From Water Management to Water Stewardship—A Policy Maker’s Opinion on the Progress of the Mining Sector

Developing Socio-Techno-Economic-Political (STEP) Solutions for Addressing Resource Nexus Hotspots

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