As part of our ongoing commitment to achieve a single global water stewardship system we recently delivered a joint training session with our partners from the European Water Stewardship System. This three-day event in Brussels also enabled several specialist service providers to meet the training requirements for AWS accreditation, thereby helping boost the AWS system capacity in Europe....
In a significant boost to global efforts to promote water stewardship, we have strengthened our partnership with WWF through a memorandum of understanding....
Our 2nd Global Water Stewardship Forum will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland on October 31st – November 1st. 2017....
Read AWS board member Chris Brown’s recent blog post: Water Stewardship Australia’s blog post on the TEDA industrial park project: http://waterstewardship.org.au/demonstrating-good-water-stewardship-major-industrial-park-china/ Adrian Sym has contributed a chapter on AWS to a recently-published book: “Global Water Ethics” available at https://www.routledge.com/Global-Water-Ethics-Towards-a-global-ethics-charter/Ziegler-Groenfeldt/p/book/9781138204294...
On Tuesday 4 April, the first workshop for the implementation of the AWS Standard with producers in Spain will take place. The workshop is part of the AWS-WWF-EDEKA cooperation to implement the AWS Standard in supply chain production sites in water stressed locations around the world. AWS, Edeka and WWF-Germany established by a Memorandum of Cooperation in 2016. After the workshop, our team members working on this project will further support producers with the implementation of the AWS standard....
We continue to build and diversify our membership. So far in 2017 the following organizations have joined more than 60 who signed up last year as members of AWS: AZAO, The Coca Cola Company, DHI, ERM, SCS, Merck and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. To join AWS please apply via our website....
This Training Program is a one-day course for people seeking accreditation as AWS accredited auditors, consultants and trainers....
"Advanced Training in the AWS Standard" is the second level of a modular program for users of the AWS water stewardship system....
“Foundations of Water Stewardship” is the first level of a modular program for users of the AWS water stewardship system....
Our first Global Water Stewardship Forum, held in Edinburgh in early November, proved to be a great success. Over 100 participants from more than 20 countries engaged in plenary and breakout sessions on key topics regarding water stewardship. The Forum's Objective was to advance the integrity and coordination of water stewardship, helping to pave the way for scalable uptake and significant impact. Emphasizing the importance of "ownership" of AWS, the program included several sessions that were convened by our members and partners. The Forum was supported by the Scottish Government and GIZ's International Water Stewardship Program (IWaSP). AWS member Diageo kindly hosted...