Water Stewardship Verified
WAVE is the first and only set of enterprise-wide, independently verified water stewardship programs. Through WAVE, The Water Council helps organizations of all sizes and sectors accelerate strategic water stewardship actions.
Each WAVE program provides a proven stepwise approach that helps organizations further their water stewardship journeys. Verified organizations cut costs, reduce risk, improve operational and supply chain resiliency, and report credible, transparent outcomes to investors, customers and other key stakeholders.
WAVE: Assess helps organizations assess water use, impact and risk across the enterprise. Join if you have not completed a comprehensive water risk assessment of your operations or if you need to update your understanding of water use, impact and risk.
This program leads you to develop an operational water use profile, a water risk and source water assessment, a priority ranking of your sites by risk, a list of actions to mitigate risk, and a water policy or commitment statement for your organization.
WAVE: Action helps organizations implement actions and set targets that mitigate the highest-priority risks and address key opportunities. Join if you need to develop, refine or validate water targets and goals.
This program leads you to set water targets and goals, ensuring they align with your overall risk profile and priority actions, and identify opportunities to collaborate with stakeholders where you operate to address shared water challenges.
Participating organizations in both programs must seek independent verification through our exclusive partner, SCS Global Services, a worldwide leader in third-party verification of sustainability claims.
WAVE Verification assures investors, customers and other key stakeholders that your organization is credibly and strategically addressing water challenges across the enterprise and as warranted into the value chain. Verified organizations credibly demonstrate that they are prioritizing water-related action where it matters most, ultimately mitigating water-related risk and addressing shared water challenges and opportunities while building a more water-resilient operation.
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“Water and climate are inherently linked – a connection that is often overlooked. That’s why the WAVE program is so important. It helps businesses understand their water risks, create a plan of action and, most important, verify through an independent third-party that they are taking the right actions in the right place at the right time.”
–Emilio Tenuta, Senior Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer, Ecolab
