Advisory Services

Get started on your water journey

The Water Council offers a spectrum of advisory services that meet the needs of businesses wherever they are in their water stewardship journeys. We customize engagements that accelerate a company’s water stewardship performance while improving outcomes and reporting. Our advisory services include:

  • Corporate strategy development – Guided development of a water strategy, target(s) and goal(s) as part of a broader sustainability plan or strategy
  • Corporate gap assessment – Benchmarking and assessment of current water-related practices and policies with relevant best practices
  • Corporate risk assessment – Evaluation and prioritization of water-related risk for a company and the watersheds where it operates
  • Operationalizing corporate goals – Inform the rollout of corporate water stewardship strategy and goals at the watershed level
  • Direct operational support – Support for implementation of water stewardship best practices at the watershed level, including the Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard
  • Local water stewardship projects with partners – Develop and support collaborative water stewardship projects by working with companies and other local partners at the watershed level

NO MATTER WHERE YOUR COMPANY IS IN YOUR WATER JOURNEY OR WHAT LEVEL OF ASSISTANCE YOU’RE SEEKING, THE WATER COUNCIL TAILORS ADVISORY SERVICE ENGAGEMENTS THAT WORK FOR YOU

The Water Council has helped dairies to data centers, Fortune 500 brands to small family manufacturers, understand water uses and impacts, best practices to mitigate those impacts and key insights to stakeholder engagement and external reporting. The Water Council Advisory Services are informed by 10+ years of collective experience working with companies on water stewardship and are designed to meet companies wherever they are in their journey, to improve existing efforts and fill gaps, while ensuring a systematic approach and alignment from the board room to the shop floor.

How can your company get started? We begin with a complimentary, one-time consultation to learn more about your existing water efforts to determine how we can best support you through our range of water stewardship advisory services. This assessment will be followed with a proposed tailored engagement that best supports your company’s specific water stewardship goals. To schedule your consultation, click here.

OTHER WAYS TO ENGAGE WITH THE WATER COUNCIL ON WATER STEWARDSHIP

Is your company looking for a way to publicly signal your commitment and enhance your organization’s credibility related to water stewardship? Join The Water Council as a Water Champion member.

Are you seeking to grow internal skillsets and knowledge in water stewardship? Learn more about The Water Council’s Capacity Building & Training.

Are you interested in a program from The Water Council designed to accelerate and verify your company’s enterprise-wide water stewardship performance? Check out The Water Council WAVE program.

Water is a shared resource and as such presents shared challenges and opportunities no matter the watershed. We are always open to exploring new partnerships and collaborations.

Matt Howard

Vice President, Water Stewardship

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