Evaluating Water Usage in the Supply Chain

HarvardBusiness.org recently published a very interesting article from William Sarni,founder and CEO of DOMANI, an integrated sustainability consulting firm, on water use being a critical supply chain issue. He outlines how organizations are now determining the water footprint for their entire supply chains in order to address business challenges. To support his argument, Mr. Sarni discusses how global brewer, SABMiller, collaborated with the World Wildlife Fund to study the entire water footprint of SABMiller's beers in South Africa and the Czech Republic. The study evaluated direct and indirect water usage ranging from crop cultivation to distribution. The full report titled, Water Footprinting: Identifying & Addressing Water Risks in the Value Chain, can be accessed here. If your business is looking to learn more about current and emerging water and management issues, check out Enviance’s complimentary Web seminar on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM Pacific Time / 2:00 PM Eastern Time. This one hour seminar will cover topics such as:

- Water consumption and climate change and how they may redefine business processes and processing costs

- The potential impact of increased regulatory enforcement

- The need for greater transparency on industrial use of water and the quality of wastewater and storm water discharges

- National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit compliance challenges

- How to reduce your compliance risk and manage and report your water inventory concurrently with your greenhouse gas inventory/carbon footprint.