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Article

6 Aug 2013

Author:
CEO Water Mandate, UN Global Compact

Survey Seeks Input on Improving Mandate’s Corporate Water Disclosure Guidelines

When the UN Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate released the Public Exposure Draft of its Corporate Water Disclosure Guidelines last year, it provided the first ever common approach to corporate water disclosure. Now that businesses, organizations, and communities have had a chance to digest and test these Guidelines, the Mandate is conducting an online survey to determine how they have been working in practice and what areas need refining for greater effectiveness...Corporate water disclosure involves collecting and reporting data on the current state of a company’s water management practices, assessing the implications of this information for the business, developing a strategic response, and ultimately reporting this information to key stakeholders: investors, NGOs, consumers, communities, suppliers, employees, and others...