Industrial Water Resource Management Challenges and Opportunities for Corporate Water Stewardship

Provides the tools that allow companies to understand the fundamental concepts of water resource management and to take proper action towards sustainable development Businesses, communities, and ecosystems everywhere depend on clean freshwater to survive and prosper. When the same source of water is shared for economic, social, and environmental causes it becomes the responsibility of every sector to develop a sustainable water strategy beneficial for all. This book offers a water resource management plan for industries that is directly implementable and consistent with the Water Framework Directives of different countries with a special emphasis on developing countries--a plan that is economically efficient, socially equitable, and environmentally sustainable. Industrial Water Resource Management: Challenges and Opportunities for Corporate Water Stewardship offers explicit technical and investment solutions, socioeconomic and legal instruments, and recommendations for institutional restructuring. Written by a leading world expert in the field, it covers a wide range of topics including:

• Source water assessment and protection
• Water audit, industrial water footprint assessment--an evaluation of tools and methodologies
• Corporate water disclosure methods and tools
• Water stewardship by the industries
• Stakeholder collaboration and engagement
• New technologies enabling companies to better manage water resources

Given the well-known challenge of managing natural resources in a way that maximizes and sustains social welfare, this book provides an invaluable point of reference for applied researchers and policy makers working in water resources management.

About the author

Pradip K. Sengupta, Hydrologist, works at the Jadavpur Centre for Study of Earth Science, India.

Summary

Provides the tools that allow companies to understand the fundamental concepts of water resource management and to take proper action towards sustainable development Businesses, communities, and ecosystems everywhere depend on clean freshwater to survive and prosper.

Product details

• Authors: Pradip K SenGupta, Pradip Kumar Sengupta, Pradip K. Sengupta, PK Sengupta
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.11.2017
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration
• EAN: 9781119272502
• ISBN: 978-1-119-27250-2
• Pages: 488
• Series: Challenges in Water Management; Challenges in Water Management Series; Challenges in Water Management Series; Challenges in Water Management
• Subjects: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply, Conservation, environmental protection, Water Management, Hydrology, Water pollution, Water supply & treatment, Water quality, Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business, Business & the environment, 'Green' approaches to business, Water Resource Management, Water supply and treatment, Drought & Water Supply, Drought and water supply, water conservation, Water Security, RWH, Untreated wastewater, sustainable approaches to business, American Water Works Association, storm water management, rain water harvesting, sustainable water resource development, sustainable water strategies, water accounting, CSR managers, environmental managers, Industrial Water Resource Management, AWWA, water resource assessment, water auditing software, water quality standards, hydro-geology, Challenges and Opportunities for Efficient Water Stewardship, water stewardship, Source Water Protection, water disclosure, Pradip K. Sengupta, industrial water footprint assessment, water audit, water compliance, corporate water disclosure, water sharing, artificial groundwater recharge, source water assessment and protection