Written by Gracia Plenita Agnindhira, AWS Training and Development Manager
Water stewardship enables water users to work together towards common goals for sustainable water management and shared water security. It encourages large water users, or sites and organisations, to move beyond their fencelines by engaging with stakeholders in their catchments and helping to drive benefits for businesses, communities and nature.
The Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) convenes organisations to share knowledge, advance innovation in water stewardship practice, and support the uptake and evolution of the AWS Standard. Whether your organisation is getting started or already implementing advanced water stewardship, building the right knowledge and skills helps translate ambition into meaningful actions.
Structured learning builds internal confidence, accelerates progress and ensures more coordinated efforts which align with globally recognised best practice, the AWS Standard.
The AWS Standard System Training is designed exactly for this purpose.
With the launch of AWS Standard Version 3.0 on World Water Day 2026, our flagship AWS Standard System Training course has been fully updated to support practitioners in implementing the new version. The updated course will equip you with the knowledge and practical understanding required to apply the requirements in the AWS Standard V3.0 with confidence.
What’s new in AWS Standard System Training?
- Strengthened logic behind target setting in the development of the water stewardship plan, with the inclusion of double materiality to support risk identification and prioritisation.
- New insights into how water stewardship can help build catchment resilience to climate and water crises.
- More clarity on continual improvement from implementing the AWS Standard’s Core, Gold and Platinum requirements
- New and improved interactive exercises to strengthen conceptual and practical understanding of AWS Standard’s requirements in Step 1 and 2.
The AWS Standard System Training is not just about learning about compliance to the Standard’s requirements. It is about providing a starting point to build the foundations for leadership in water stewardship using the AWS Standard V3.0 as a framework for action. It equips professionals to understand impacts and dependencies on water, prioritise risks and collaborate more effectively with others in their catchments.
We believe water stewardship is more impactful when it is built collectively across catchment, and shared with the broader community.
AWS Training Programme offers wide-ranging training courses to support the needs from our stakeholders and the general public. AWS training participants come from various professional backgrounds with different levels of experience, but they typically share a common goal: to drive change where it matters most.
Our training courses are offered in multiple languages and provide options enabling participants to decide which will best support them in building a structured understanding of water stewardship.
If your organisation is ready to take the next step, or if you are looking to build your own expertise in water stewardship, the AWS Training Programme and our training courses offer a practical and inspiring place to start.
