Water Stewardship

Developing practices that promote the equitable and sustainable management of water resources

Implementing Water Stewardship Practices & Water Risk Assessment

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Water, a fundamental resource for life and business operations, faces increasing challenges globally. Climate change, shifting consumption patterns, and population growth intensify the demand for sustainable water management. Increasing population and economic growth, as well as shifting consumption patterns, caused global water use to increase sixfold over the past century, growing at about 1% per year. 2030 global water demand is now expected to outstrip supply by 56%, a 40% increase over the 40% gap projected ten years ago.

Navigating these challenges requires a strategic approach, and businesses play a crucial role in driving positive change. Our holistic approach ensures that businesses not only manage water risks but also contribute to long-term water security.

Water stewardship actions help businesses strengthen continuity, protect their license to operate, save money, boost their brand value, and promote productivity in the workplace.

Water Stewardship Services

Anthesis views water stewardship as an aggregation of many mutually supportive activities and concepts, including operational performance improvement, risk & opportunity assessment, benchmarking, target & goal setting, stakeholder engagement, governance, reporting & disclosure, and value chain performance improvement.

These activities do not represent an exhaustive list, but rather offer key considerations to minimise risk and deliver social, economic, and environmental benefits. Developing an appropriate and effective water stewardship strategy is very much an iterative process, often jumping back and forth between the various activities.

Anthesis also works to integrate water-related insights into a client’s broader sustainability strategy to maximise resource efficiency and minimise environmental and social impacts.

Our Approach to Water Stewarship

Water Foot printing and Accounting: Understand and quantify water-related impacts across your business operations.

Value Chain Water Risk Assessment: Identify and mitigate physical, reputational, and regulatory risks in your value chain.

Stakeholder Engagement and Supplier Surveys: Foster collective action and build community relationships to enhance water stewardship.

Water Stewardship Strategy Development: Foster collective action and build community relationships to enhance water stewardship.

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Case Studies

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Conducting Water Risk Assessment for Pacific Institute

The Situation Pacific Institute’s objective was to coordinate a clustered pilot in the Noyyal-Bhavani River Basin in South India where three global apparel companies have facilities and operations to drive action informed by catchment context. Anthesis worked with the Pacific Institute, in collaboration with the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE),…

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Evaluating Water Quality for City of Stockholm

The Situation The Swedish capital is internationally well-known for its waters, and the City of Stockholm’s Environment and Health Administration wanted to understand the economic value of achieving good water quality in all inland waters in the city, as defined by the EU Water Framework Directive. The client was also interested in the relationship between…

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Conducting a Marine Water Quality Study for a Swedish Government Agency

The Situation A Swedish Government Agency wanted to understand and quantify the public value of “good environmental status” (GES) in Sweden’s marine waters in accordance with the European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Anthesis conducted a comprehensive study to measure public willingness to pay to achieve GES in marine waters. Solutions Water Stewardship Impact…

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Reviewing Water Stewardship Strategy for Food and Beverage Supplier

The Situation A large food and beverage supplier want to define what the company’s Water Stewardship Strategy could look like with the aim of integrating water stewardship into regular business processes so that it becomes an everyday, “business as usual” consideration. Also, to enable the organisation to participate in the CDP Water programme and to…

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