Corporate Water Accounting: An Analysis of Methods and Tools for ...

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VII. Conveying Water Information to Stakeholders 40
Third-party water disclosure metrics and protocols 40
Water Footprinting 41
Life Cycle Assessment 42
WBCSD Global Water Tool 42
GEMI Water Sustainability Tools 43
VIII: Data Limitations 44
IX. Water Accounting and Other Sustainability Accounting Methods 46
Carbon accounting 46
Ecological Footprinting 47
Compatibility of sustainability accounting methodologies 47
X. Advancing Corporate Water Accounting Practices 49
Works Cited 52
Appendix A: List of Research Advisory Committee Members 53
Appendix B: Key Players in Corporate Water Accounting 54
Appendix C: Acronyms 58
List of Boxes
Box 1: SABMiller and Water Footprinting 20
Box 2: Unilever, Water Footprinting, and Lca 23
Box 3: Dow Chemical’s Use of The Wbcsd &
Gemi Online Tools 24
List of Figures
Figure 1: The Role of Water Accounting in Advancing
Sustainable Water Management 14
Figure 2: Examples of Water-related Risk Throughout
the Value Chain 29
Figure 3: An Example of Water Footprinting Study Visualization 41
List of Tables
Table 1: Summary of Objectives, Scope, and Structure for Major
Corporate Accounting Methodologies and Tools 27
Table 2: Summary of Accounting Approaches to Water-related Impacts 35
Table 3: Summary of Accounting Approaches for Water Quality
and Industrial Effluent 39