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25 Aug 2015

Author:
André Fourie, SAB Miller & Stuart Orr, WWF, TriplePundit

Why Partnerships are Key to Water Security

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While governments are ultimately responsible for the delivery of water, we know it’s a massive challenge in some parts of the world...with such a significant percentage of the world’s water going into corporate and agricultural supply chains, we must both invite and insist that businesses contribute to the solutions envisioned in the SDGs. Water stewardship provides a strong model for how this might work....WWF’s approach to water stewardship is about much more than making supply chains more sustainable. Our goal is better governance of a vital shared resource that underpins healthy societies and healthy economies...For SABMiller, the SDGs are an opportunity to expand shared prosperity, because we only thrive as a business if the communities around us thrive. Communities only thrive if ecosystems thrive, and that requires better management of water...SABMiller will argue that businesses have to be innovative in forging such partnerships. Business needs to be prepared to forge new relationships and commit to being transparent and accountable in our stewardship practices, even if at times our first advances are treated with caution.

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