Each WAVE program provides proven step-wise approaches that help organizations:
These are the only verification programs of their kind helping to better define and recognize “good” enterprise-wide water stewardship.
Join WAVE: Assess 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.
If this reflects your needs, please check out WAVE: Assess.
Join WAVE: Action 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.
If this reflects your needs, please check out WAVE: Action.
“Nearly 90% of climate impacts are related to water. 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, Chief Sustainability Officer, Ecolab
Organizations that have been verified to these programs cut costs, reduce risk, improve operational and supply chain resiliency, and report credible, transparent outcomes to investors, customers and other key stakeholders.
Organizations are required to seek independent verification to the WAVE programs by engaging our exclusive partner, SCS Global Services, a worldwide leader in third-party verification of sustainability claims. WAVE verified organizations receive an enterprise-wide claim and logo that can be used in sustainability and other types of external reports as well as other means of external communication.
Why is independent verification important? Verification to one of our WAVE programs 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. WAVE 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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Learn how Watts Water Technologies and A. O. Smith Corporation benefited from WAVE: Assess.