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Water Risks are Real Now Working Beyond Your Fenceline Do You Know Where Your Water Risks Are? Benefits of the Global Water Tool Tool Functions and Data Security Data Credibility Advisory Board and Supporting Organizations Simple Demo of Tool Use Testimonials. Contents.

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  1. Water Risks are Real Now Working Beyond Your Fenceline Do You Know Where Your Water Risks Are? Benefits of the Global Water Tool Tool Functions and Data Security Data Credibility Advisory Board and Supporting Organizations Simple Demo of Tool Use Testimonials Contents

  2. Water Risks are Real Now IPCC: Climate Change will Increase Droughts and Floods Population Growth will Decrease Per Capita Availability

  3. Working on Water Beyond Your Fenceline Business Need Areas of Risk Inside the Fenceline: Inside the Fenceline: • Stranded Assets• Rising Costs •Water for Operations • Ability to Discharge Supply Chain Operations Beyond the Fenceline: Beyond the Fenceline: Operations and Product Design • Healthy Communities and workforce • Strong Supply Chains • License to Operate • Community andRegulatory Pressure • Health of Employees •Competing Industries • Supply Chain Interruptions Local Communities Global Consumer Markets in Developed and Developing Countries Beyond the Horizon: Beyond the Horizon: • Brand Image •Health and Growth of Consumer Markets • Healthy and Strong Global Consumer Markets • Access to Clean Water for Product Use

  4. More Corporate Water Risk Assessments • Pacific Institute: • 20% of companies mention water risk – only a few of 139 companies address external water landscape in evaluating risks • Lack of context in reporting • Supply chain issues are often overlooked • Corporate Knights: • Review of Canadian Companies with operations in water scarce areas Growing Call: Companies Need to Comprehensively Evaluate and Address Water Risks and Impacts inOperations and Supply Chains relative to External Factors

  5. How many of your employees live in countries that lack access to improved water and sanitation? Do you know… • How many of your sites are in extremely water-scarce areas? Which sites are at greatest risk? How that will change in the future? • How many of your suppliers are in water scarce areas now and will be in 2025?

  6. Risk Management on Global Water Issues • Requires an understanding of a company’s water needs in relation to local externalities: • Water availability – current and projected • Water quality • Water “stress” – people, environment and agriculture • Access to safe drinking water sources • Access to sanitation • Population/industrial growth • Company’s needs = owned operations, employees, and supply chain…….and ultimately customers

  7. Advisory Board & Organizations Data provided by: Leader: CH2M HILL Air Products and Chemicals Alcan Alcoa Anglo American Borealis ConocoPhillips Degussa The Dow Chemical Company DuPont GrupoNueva Holcim ITT Corporation Kimberly Clark Lafarge PepsiCo Petro-Canada Rio Tinto Sanyo Shell Suez Syngenta Unilever World Health Organization & UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme Expertise provided by:

  8. Dataset owners gave permission to WBCSD for use in the Tool Original datasets have not been modified The datasets Have global coverage Are available in the public domain Are considered valid by the global community of water stakeholders Are recent Will be updated • World Resources Institute (WRI) • Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) AQUASTAT • University of New Hampshire (UNH), USA • World Health Organization & UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) Data Credibility

  9. Compares your company’s water uses (including staff presence, industrial use, and supply chain) with key external water-related data Creates key water GRI Indicators, inventories, risk and performance metrics and geographic mapping Establishes relative water risks in your company’s portfolio to prioritize action Enables effective communication with internal and external stakeholders on your company’s water issues Allows calculation of water consumption & efficiency Benefits of the Global Water Tool FREE EASY-TO-USE

  10. Two Parts to the Tool: Excel Workbook: Inventory, GRI Indicators, External Data Connection and Metrics Calculations GRI has endorsed tool On-line Mapping Program Site Locations and External Water Maps Google Earth interface for spatial viewing Company data is kept secure by user – not saved on WBCSD website Tool Functions and Data Security GRI Indicators on total water withdrawals (EN8), water recycled/reused (EN10), and total water discharge (EN21) are calculated for each site, country, region and total.

  11. Start Page Limitation The tool does not provide specific guidance on local situations, which requires more in-depth systematic analysis.

  12. Data Form – Easy Input Sheet

  13. Input Inventory Sheet

  14. Water Consumption and GRI Metrics

  15. Level: Sites Workers Suppliers Combined Company and Country Metrics

  16. Workbook Output – Charts

  17. Click Generate Map Generate Maps

  18. GIS Mapping Application Save As

  19. Save as PDF, JPEG…

  20. Access to Improved Water Access to Improved Sanitation Ratio of Industrial to Total Water Use Mean Annual Relative Water Stress Index Other Global Maps Available

  21. Map Sites with Google Earth Click Google Earth

  22. Google Earth Interface – Global Perspective

  23. Testimonials What some users said see www.wbcsd.org/web/watertool.htm for more...

  24. The Dow Chemical Company The WBCSD Global Water Tool has provided a unique and valuable perspective on the water use and relative corporate risks in our global operations. We have used the metrics and mapping results to review corporate risks communicate with internal stakeholders. The user-friendly outputs in terms of Global Reporting Initiative metrics are especially useful and we plan to use the outputs of this tool in further external communication to stakeholders as well.

  25. PepsiCo International The new WBCSD Global Water Tool is a significant step in addressing world water issues. It is the first tool of its kind available in the public domain, and will have marked impact in helping companies, governments, and other interested stakeholders proactively assess and manage their water resource risks. The WBCSD Global Water Tool is intuitive to use, so the user is able to get up to speed almost immediately on the basic functionality of the Tool. As the user's familiarity increases, so do the evident power and impact of the Tool.

  26. Petro-Canada The Tool provides a company with a singular and holistic view of its operations relative to water scarcity. Petro-Canada intends to introduce the Tool to our business units and encourage them to include its use in project decision making. We are looking forward to the future development of the Tool to provide greater information and therefore increased value to our business.

  27. Alcan Water for Alcan is a key component to business sustainability and a top priority in delivering on our EHS FIRSTTM commitments. The WBCSD Global Water Tool is a powerful and very user-friendly application to assess our global and regional water footprint in order to visualize, communicate and assist in high level decision making to deliver value for internal and external stakeholders.

  28. DuPont DuPont supported the development of the WBCSD Global Water Tool as we saw it as an effective means of putting our science to work to develop sustainable, global solutions. The collaboration among companies from major industry sectors has been remarkable and has resulted in a tool of widespread applicability and value. In our pilot testing, we found that this tool aligns with our company’s publicly stated water conservation goals by enabling us to focus our resources more effectively on operations in locations where water resources are, or will be, under stress. The Global Water Tool is already helping DuPont towards achieving our vision of creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere. We’re confident that others will find this tool to be just as valuable in helping them with their sustainability efforts.

  29. Unilever This tool should really help the new swimmers in the stream of water business risk awareness to start to understand their own issues; it is a really practical follow up to the Water Scenarios which should have raised the issue of Water for Business.

  30. Shell Water is a strategic issue for Shell in our operations and communities around the world. Since we are active in over 130 countries and territories, we saw value in the development of a tool that could provide portfolio perspective for identifying and managing risk. We found the Global Water Tool easy-to-use and the presentation of the output tables of great value for communication on global water risk. We are also exploring how the tool can be linked to our annual sustainability report.

  31. Borealis The Global Water Tool provides a comprehensive and dynamic picture of our operations' water footprint and is the basis for the strategic management of water risks.

  32. ITT Corporation The Global Water Tool is valuable for companies around the globe that understand clean water resources are critical to business success and must be managed effectively. The tool is not an end to itself, but rather the beginning of a much deeper understanding of the water situation in local business communities. We are committed to using the tool at ITT to inform decision-making across our company.

  33. CH2M HILL Water risks to business and society are significant now and expected to increase due to the impacts of climate change. The WBCSD Global Water Tool is an example of the way business must innovate in the future to proactively identify and address risks to protect our shareholders, employees, communities and the environment.

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