AWS Collective Action Accelerator: Overview for Brands and Retailers
This brochure gives an overview of the AWS Collective Action Accelerator for brands and retailers that are interested in supporting and participating in an AWS Collective Action Accelerator. It provides information on the steps in the process and the benefits.
AWS Collective Action Accelerator: Overview for Participating Sites
This brochure gives an overview of the AWS Collective Action Accelerator for sites that have been nominated to participate. It provides information on the steps in the process and benefits, and answers some frequently asked questions.
Alliance for Water Stewardship Interoperability with Disclosure Frameworks: Final Results
The contents of this document were produced by South Pole for the Alliance for Water Stewardship in May 2024. The document was prepared by Christina Mallin (Water Lead) and Melinda Shou (Managing Consultant Agricultural Value Chains).
Impact Evaluation of the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) System: Phase One Report
Phase One results of AWS’s first Impact Evaluation to better understand the effects of the AWS Standard on catchments and watersheds worldwide.
Unpacking Collective Action in Water Stewardship
Initiated by WWF and authored by 15 organisations including AWS, the 2024 report ‘Unpacking collective action in water stewardship’ lays out a framework for working together as an ecosystem of freshwater solution providers to address shared water challenges at scale.
The Value of Water Stewardship
A short brochure outlining the importance of water stewardship and the ways the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) can support organisations.
A Corporate Water Stewardship Journey
Developed in partnership with CDP, CEO Water Mandate, Science Based Targets Network, The Nature Consercancy, World Resources Institute and the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF), this inforgraphic lays out the different stages of the water stewardship journey for corporations and how different initatives and tools developed across the water stewardship community can help.
Water Stewardship: A resource for the textiles and apparel sector
‘Water stewardship: A resource for the textiles and apparel industry’ provides an overview of water risks facing the industry’s value chain and outlines a clear path for how brands can take water stewardship action.
Water stewardship: Understanding the agricultural landscape in Spain
To help address an important knowledge gap identified through the AWS Agriculture Working Group and drive a collective approach to water stewardship in Spain, AWS, in partnership with EDEKA and WWF, created this comprehensive, easy-to-use resource that explains the differences between water management and water stewardship, and provides a step-by-step look at the AWS Standard.
Tackling pollution from the apparel sector: Water stewardship with Ethiopian Cotton Farmers
This report compares the AWS Standard and the Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) Standard and sheds light on how the principles of water stewardship can be applied to smallholder cotton farms in Ethiopia. This is part of a larger project funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) with Aid by Trade Foundation, […]