First site in North America achieves AWS certification
Nestle Waters US has had its site in Ontario, California certified to the AWS Standard. This is the first site in North America to achieve AWS certification....
News and Events
AWS at Stockholm World Water Week
AWS are co-convening an interactive learning session on stewardship and speaking on several panels at Stockholm World Water Week. AWS Secretariat and Regional Partner's staff will be at conference all week and available for meetings. For details read here...
Peruvian agriculture embracing AWS water stewardship
Water stewardship in Peruvian agriculture AWS further strengthened through 2030 Water Resources Group and AWS collaboration....
Water stewardship addressing impacts of pharmaceuticals
AWS Standard helping public-sector partnership to address the impacts of pharmaceuticals and priority chemicals in the water system of Scottish Highlands....
AWS Global Water Stewardship Forum
Growing populations and economies, changing lifestyles and global climate change are putting increasing pressure on our water resources. Major water users, governments, cities and citizens all recognize the urgent need to work together to ensure the sustainability of this vital resource on which we all depend....
AWS Standard Review Extended to 22nd May 2017
The deadline for completing the Review Survey has been extended by a further 30 days and will now end on 22nd May 2017....
Pakistan Water Stewardship Network is formed
At a ground-breaking meeting in Lahore, AWS has been instrumental in establishing the Pakistan Water Stewardship Network....
MillerCoors to implement AWS Standard at Milwaukee Brewery
MillerCoors has announced that its Milwaukee Brewery will begin implementation of the AWS Standard, seeking to be the first brewery to achieve AWS certification....
NHS Highlands commits to first AWS Standard implementation in UK
NHS Highland CEO, Elaine Mead, and her Leadership Team, have enthusiastically welcomed the proposal to implement the AWS Standard at Caithness General, the first healthcare facility worldwide, and first UK site in any sector, to seek AWS certification. This is part of the Green Healthcare Highlands Project, exploring innovative approaches to sustainability, and is intended as a domino project to generate learning for replication at other sites in the region and potentially further afield. A collaborative approach will be adopted involving several key agencies including Highlands and Islands Enterprise (an AWS member), the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Environmental...
Upcoming training opportunities
The following training programs are planned for the next couple of months: 19-21 April in Johannesburg 23-25 April in Cape Town 2-4 May in Melbourne 20-22 June in Durban In addition, we will be organizing training in India as soon as possible. Please contact me if you have interest in training in India. Information and contacts for all of these training opportunities is available on our website. For anyone in the London area, AWS will be moderating a session on “water risk beyond the fenceline” at the Environmental Finance conference on Water Risk, Opportunity & Sustainability on April 5th. AWS subscribers may be interested...