October 26, 2007—Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) and the Pacific Institute have jointly published a new trends report that focuses on corporate water strategy. “At the Crest of a Wave: A Proactive Approach to Corporate Water Strategy” explains the drivers behind water trends, their implications for business, and how to prepare for them.
A global crisis in access to clean water is emerging as freshwater resources become scarcer or polluted, and businesses will increasingly find themselves grappling with water constraints in various sourcing, production, and retail sites around the world, says BSR.
According to the United Nations, if present consumption patterns continue, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in water-stressed conditions by the year 2025. Today more than 1 billion people around the world lack reliable access to clean drinking water and 2.5 billion people lack adequate sanitation.
This new trends report steers readers through developing and implementing a two-phase corporate water strategy, and includes examples from companies such as Unilever, Nestl, Toyota, General Motors, Anheuser-Busch, GE, Proctor & Gamble, and more.
“At the Crest of a Wave” (.pdf file) can be downloaded from the BSR Web site.
BSR provides socially responsible business solutions to many of the world’s leading businesses. Pacific Institute is an independent, nonpartisan think-tank studying issues at the intersection of development, environment, and security.
