ISO, International Standards Organization, has just published a standard for measuring your water footprint.
ISO 14046: Environmental management — Water footprint — Principles, requirements and guidelines, published today, will allow all kinds of organizations, from industry, to government and NGOs the means to measure their “˜water footprint’, or their potential environmental impact of water use and pollution.
Is it for me?
The standard is based on a life-cycle assessment and can assist in:
- Assessing the magnitude of potential environmental impacts related to water,
- identifying ways to reduce those impacts,
- facilitating water efficiency and optimization of water management at product, process and organizational levels and
- providing scientifically consistent and reliable information for reporting water footprint results that can be tracked over time.
Learn more: http://www.iso.org/iso/news.
