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The True Cost of Water

The true cost of water: Understanding the value of water through monetization of blue risks

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Peter Burgess

The true cost of water: Understanding the value of water through monetization of blue risks

Webinar details 19 Nov 2013 13:00 (GMT) 08:00 (EST)

Integrating the true cost of water in strategic planning to better understand and mitigate water-related risks.

Tomorrow’s water challenge is huge! The global demand for clean and fresh water is putting at risk the balance between demand and supply, creating increasingly profound water related risks – risks that many businesses are not yet managing!

The True Cost of Water model focuses on the financial implications of water risks. It helps companies to anticipate, prioritize, and more effectively mitigate water-related risks that can negatively affect the bottom line by creating a risk-reward trade-off analysis. This new decision-making tool is Veolia Water’s answer to encourage action for improved water resource management and it will provide a better understating of the environmental and economic implications of water use.

With water use rapidly becoming under huge pressures, some businesses are already shifting their views that water is no longer a ‘commodity’ and starting to realize water risks can cause severe disruptions and affect their business performance.

Join Veolia on this webinar to gain an insight to:

• Growing risks related to water use.
• The need for a pragmatic metric.
• The True Cost of Water, a Veolia Water in-house tool, what is it and how it’s used?
• Some key examples and case studies to illustrate the dynamic of the True Cost of Water.
• Benefits for businesses from using this water risks assessment.

Johann Clere, Global Shared Value Director and Chloe Dupont, Environmental Strategy Coordinator, Veolia Water.