- Corporate and Product Water Footprint
- Water Efficiency Audits & Water Management
1. Corporate and Product Water Footprints
GCX conducts water footprints in accordance with global best practice. The aim of a water footprint is to understand how much water your company or a specific product you produce uses.
The water footprint of an individual, community or company is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual or community or produced by the company.
Corporate Water Footprint: The water footprint of a business - that is its 'corporate water footprint' - refers to the total volume of fresh water that is used directly and indirectly to run and support the business. It consists of two components:
- the operational water footprint, i.e. the direct water use by the business in its own operations,
- the supply-chain water footprint, i.e. the water use in the business’s supply chain. Many businesses have a supply-chain water footprint that is much larger than the operational water footprint. This is particularly the case when a company does not have agricultural activity itself but is partly based on the intake of agricultural products (crop products, meat, milk, eggs, leather, cotton, wood/paper).
Product Water Footprint: The water footprint of a product is the volume of freshwater used to produce the product, measured over the full supply chain. It is a multi-dimensional indicator, showing water consumption volumes by source and polluted volumes by type of pollution; all components of a total water footprint are specified geographically and temporally. By definition, the water footprint of a business is equal to the sum of the water footprints of the business output products. The supply-chain water footprint of a business is equal to the sum of the water footprints of the business input products.
Business Benefits of conducting a water footprint include:
- Gather key information to communicate your water usage to consumers and investors
- Put a stake in the ground from which to implement a water reduction strategy
- Understand how many liters of water it takes to produce each product or for each proces
- Market your company as water aware
- Identify unnecessary inefficiencies in water use
- Benchmark yourself against similar competitors
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2. Water Efficiency Audits & Water Management
Opportunities exist for businesses of all sizes, and across all sectors to reduce their reliance on fresh water, and organisations are finding that there is a strong business case for embarking on a formal Water Reduction Program through water conservation, water use efficiency and water management.
The key outputs of the Water Efficiency Audit:
- Gain an understanding of each water input (source), use (unit operations) and output (Sinks)
- Once we have a good picture of your current water use we will analyse this and create a water efficiency action plan for your company which will be based on optimising capture, use, re-use and recycling of water. Where required this will include detailed water quality testing and ranking of water outputs to ascertain their usefulness.
- GCX will make bankable recommendations so that your company can make informed decisions regarding where to allocate resources to the reduction of its water usage. This will be based on clear commercial modelling.
- GCX will provide a financial analysis for each Water Management Opportunity (WMO) based on detailed implementation cost estimates and site-specific operating cost savings.
Business Benefits of a Water efficiency Audit:
- Reduced Operating Costs: Reduce operating costs associated with water usage
- Increase Operational Efficiency: Gain a better understanding of where water can be reused and recycled and in so doing reduce consumption through the implementation of a Water Management Strategy
- Differentiated Marketing and Communication: Capitalise on the significant marketing and media opportunities associated with water aware companies.
- Reduced Carbon Footprint: Reduce your company’s carbon footprint
- Regulation: Understand the potential liability associated with water legislation, punitive tariffs and other future water legislation.
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