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AT&T Building
Water E ffi ciency
People’s Insights: Volume 2, Issue 31
Reputation | Employee Engagement | Citizenship
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AT&T and EDF’s water savinginitiative
Source: environmentalleader.com
To maintain their 'aquaprint,' AT&T
partnered with theEnvironmental Defence
Fund and used dataanalysis to reduce their
water consumption atcooling towers.
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Using data to identify savings
The Building Water Efficiency toolkit was
developed as the result of data and lessons from
various pilot projects, andgives organizations simple
cost-effective resources tobuild their own water efficiency programs.
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Sharing the Toolkit
AT&T and EDF provide thetoolkit for free along with a
series of free webinars tointroduce and promote the
toolkit.
The toolkit itself comprises
of a Water Scorecard and
Water Efficiency Calculator
to evaluate and identifyconsumption and savings
opportunities, and aCooling System
guide and video series to
educate stakeholders.
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The ever-rising importance of water
Sources: Business Insider , NYTimes, National Geographic
McKinsey's report Chartingour Water Future (2009)
notes that in the last 50years, the world’s
population has doubled andglobal GDP has grown
tenfold, agricultural andindustrial output hasboomed, and cities have
burgeoned.
This growth, and these
competing uses, have putglobal water resources
under ever-increasingstrain.
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Collaborating to solve today's socialchallenges
Pacific Institute
Water Scarcity & Climate Change:
Growing Risks for Businesses & Investors
Thinkers and doers pointout that collaboration is
key to tackling socialchallenges and that
stakeholders need topool together knowledge,
information and data tomake progress.
Collaborative actions are particularlycrucial in assessing and addressing
climate change impacts, since there arelarge gaps in knowledge and information
related to climate change and water,
especially data and prediction modelingat the watershed level.
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Increasing role of private sector
MSLGROUPIndia's Ashraf
Engineer notes thatcorporates and private
companies will have anincreasing role to play
in this space.
The expertise, resources and planningthat professionals bring to the table are
rarely replicated by the government. Itwon’t be long before the government
starts handing over water management to
private firms, just as we are seeing in thepower sector.
Ashraf Engineer
Vice-President – Content & Insights,
MSLGROUP (India)
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Engaging employees aroundSustainability
Source: Honda
Several brands havelaunched programs to
involve employees in their sustainability initiatives.
Honda crowdsources ideaswith its annual InnovativeIdeas Convention, GE
organizes Eco Treasure
Hunts and Levi's leveragedtheir employees collective
social presence with itsWaterless program.
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People, data and devices forSustainability
Sources: Charity Water , NatGeo's Changing the Course, Twitter
Brands, organizations andentrepreneurs have also
energized people aroundtheir sustainability initiatives,
and are beginning to usedata and connected devices
to help people measure andmanage their carbonfootprint.
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