The International Organization for Standardization, the world's largest developer of voluntary International Standards, has published a new Standard enabling organisations worldwide to measure their water footprint.
ISO 14046, Environmental management – Water footprint – Principles, requirements and guidelines, will allow all kinds of organizations, from industry, to government and NGOs the means to measure their ‘water footprint’, or their potential environmental impact of water use and pollution. The new standard will allow the assessment of products, processes and organizations based on life-cycle assessment and can be used to conduct and report a water footprint assessment.
Developed by experts from all over the world, the standard can assist in:
- assessing the magnitude of potential environmental impacts related to water,
- identifying opportunities to reduce water-related potential impacts associated with products at various life-cycle stages, and with processes and organizations
- facilitating water efficiency and optimization of water management at product, process and organizational levels and
- providing scientifically consistent and reliable information for reporting water footprint results that can be tracked over time
- evolving a risk management strategic related to water
- facilitating water efficiency and the optimization of water management at product, process and organizational levels.
In addition, it includes geographical and temporal dimensions and identifies the quantity of water used and changes in water quality.
ISO 14046 is expected to benefit organizations, governments and interested parties worldwide by providing transparency, consistency and credibility to the task of assessing water footprint and reporting the water footprint results of products, processes or organizations.
Water footprinting is increasingly being used to inform decision makers in industry, government or non-governmental organizations of their potential impacts related to water -for example, for the purpose of strategic planning, priority setting, product or process design or redesign, and decisions about the investment of resources.
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