“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
The WAVE: Water Stewardship Verified programs accelerate strategic water stewardship actions within organizations of all sizes and sectors. We developed the WAVE programs to meet a need in the marketplace for a comprehensive roadmap for organizations to develop credible, transparent water strategies. Each WAVE program provides proven step-wise approaches that help organizations assess water use, impact and risk across the enterprise and then implement actions and set targets that mitigate the highest-priority risks and address key opportunities. These are the only verification programs of their kind helping to better define and recognize “good” enterprise-wide water stewardship.
When successfully completed, WAVE participants will have accelerated their water stewardship journeys and impact while giving stakeholders confidence that their actions result in direct mitigation of water uses and risks as well as improvement of local water outcomes. 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.
Verification to a WAVE program assures investors, customers and other key stakeholders that the company is credibly and strategically addressing water challenges across the enterprise and as warranted into its 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.
Are you an organization looking to build a better understanding of your water uses, impacts and risks? Would an enterprise-wide roadmap for action boost your water initiatives? If so, please check out WAVE: Assess.
Have you already completed a comprehensive water risk assessment of your operations and/or supply chain? Do you need to set or refine enterprise-wide water targets to ensure your actions have the maximum positive impact? If so, please check out WAVE: Action.
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