30 September 2014: The CEO Water Mandate, part of the UN Global Compact, has released a report titled ‘Corporate Water Disclosure Guidelines: Toward a Common Approach to Reporting Water Issues.’ The report aims to provide common approaches and metrics for disclosure that will facilitate progress towards sustainable corporate water management.

The report includes step-by-step guidance on how to prepare water-related disclosures, such as: how to align disclosure with corporate water management practices; the company water profile; how to define what to report; and detailed water disclosure, including understanding and linking components of the framework, assessing the current state, considering the implications and developing a strategic response.

The guidelines acknowledge the wide varieties of corporate water management objectives, depending on type of industry and location, but aim to provide a set of metrics applicable to a very broad range of water users. The guidelines were developed by the Pacific Institute, PricewaterhouseCoopers, CDP, and the World Resources Institute (WRI). [UN Global Compact Press Release] [Publication: Corporate Water Disclosure Guidelines: Toward a Common Approach to Reporting Water Issues]