Tailor-Made Water Stewardship: Previewing the Water Action Hub 4.0

The newly launched Water Action Hub 4.0 offers self-assessment and collaboration tools to strengthen a company’s water resilience no matter its level of experience with stewardship. The Hub 4.0 expands upon the existing CEO Water Mandate platform for collaboration and knowledge-sharing between business, civil society, government, and others.

Date: 23 August, 2022

Time: 18:30-19:50 CEST

Type: Online Session

Date: 23 August, 2022

Time: 20:00-21:20 CEST

Type: Online Session

Surviving Shocks and Stressors: A Corporate Guide to Resilience Assessment

This session will present a corporate-level guide to resilience assessment and provide a high-level snapshot of resilience thinking in system design, operation, and maintenance. Further exploration of the key components in the framework specific to the application by the businesses will be undertaken.

Tools for Valuing Ecosystems and Nature-Based Solutiaons

This session will explore the need for valuing ecosystem services and nature-based solutions for sustainable development. It will present tools that have helped value ecosystem services in the food/water/energy nexus and explore how decision-makers can and have used valuation to design sustainable solutions that combat climate change.

Date: 25 August, 2022

Time: 17:00-18:20 CEST

Type: Online Seminar

Date: 29 August, 2022

Time: 11:00-12:30 CEST

Type: Onsite/Broadcast Session

A Compelling Case for Business Investment in WASH

Three years of research, led by WaterAid with funding from Diageo, Gap Inc., HSBC, Twinings and Unilever has demonstrated, through pilot projects in Asia and Africa, the value of WASH investment for workers in the workplace, in supply chains, and in communities where workers live. WaterAid will reveal challenges and insights around defining a ROI for WASH and company partners will share their projects.

The Power of Unlikely Alliances: Public-Private Partnerships for Water Efficiency

In 2021, an unlikely group of allies came together to advance technological innovation to save water in low-income, multi-family housing in Southern California. In this session, we will share the story of a successful water efficiency pilot project spanning three sites in Southern California and saving over 24 million liters of water per year.

Date: 29 August, 2022

Time: 16:00-17:30 CEST

Type: Onsite/Broadcast Session

Date: 30 August, 2022

Time: 16:00-17:30 CEST

Type: Onsite/Broadcast Session

Unseen Future Value: Forecasting the Benefits of Nature-Based Solutions

This session will explore how the benefits from nature-based solutions accrue across multiple spatial and temporal scales in different habitats and their potential valuation. These forecasts can help build the business case for NBS, by offering investors and practitioners a better understanding of when and where benefits will accumulate.