Business and water: tensions and plausible solutions

What is it about?

Water is perhaps our world’s most precious and most pervasive natural resource. We as citizens and agents of water-intensive corporations need to find the most sustainable ways of managing water resources in a global scale. Inevitably the way we abstract, use and dispose of water affects our capacity to protect aquatic biodiversity, provide ecological services (notably to fight poverty), ensure safe sanitary conditions, generate hydro-power, provide source of food and drink and make sure that people continue to enjoy the aesthetic beauty and recreational activities that water areas offer. In this article, I reflect on the complexity of corporate water responsibility to highlight firm capacity to move toward sustainable water use and practical improvements that follow from that analysis.

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Why is it important?

The study is unique in its emphasis on the challenges faced by business organisations in managing water resources. It explores potential solutions for more sustainable abstraction, usage and disposal of water resources by business – the first of this kind in ‘organisation and environment’ studies.

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