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USTAINABLE USTAINABLEDEVELOPMENTEVELOPMENTENV300NV300 ession 2ession 2
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Recap of last 2 Session 1
slidesResponding to the environmental challenge:
Business environmental performance is defined asthe ability to manage the extent of harmfuleffects due to the interaction with the
environment (e.g. the ability to prevent,eliminate, reduce and/or control any suchharmful effects)
Benefits of performance:Cost advantage (e.g. cheaper finance, lower
insurance)Competitive advantage (e.g. improved media
coverage, improved product quality)Increased market shareBusiness environmental performance is defined as
the ability to manage the extent of harmfuleffects due to the interaction with
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Water as a limited
resourceWhat is water?
Complex interplay of local and globalinfluences
Global water challenge
Water for business
Redistribution challenge
Water stress & usageWastewater management case
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What is water?“Water – a colourless, transparent, odourless, tasteless
liquid compound of oxygen and hydrogen”
Concise Oxford Dictionary
“Everyone understands that water is essential to life. Butmany are only just now beginning to grasp howessential it is to everything in life – food, energy,transportation, nature, leisure, identity, culture, social
norms, and virtually all the products used on a dailybasis. With population growth and economicdevelopment driving accelerating demand foreverything, the full value of water is becomingincreasingly apparent to all.”
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
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Sustainable water
management“Enough water, of sufficient quality, at the right
time, and at the right place to meet theongoing needs of this and future generations
and of the ecosystem as a whole”
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
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Problem statistics ... The world is not “running out of water,” but it
is not always available when and wherepeople need it. Climate, normal seasonal
variations, droughts and floods can allcontribute to local extreme conditions.
The global situationLess than 3% of the world’s water is fresh –
the rest is seawater and undrinkableOf this 3% over 2.5% is frozen, locked up inAntarctica the Arctic and glaciers, and notavailable to man
Thus humanity must rely on this 0.5% for all of
man’s and ecosystem’s freshwater needs.
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Problem statistics ...Locating the 0.5% fresh water:10,000,000 ckm stored in underground aquifers
Since 1950 there has been a rapid expansion of groundwater exploitation providing:
50% of all drinking water 40% of industrial water 20% of irrigation water
119,000 ckm net of rainfall falling on land afteraccounting for evaporation
91,000 ckm in natural lakes
Over 5,000 ckm in man-made storage facilities –reservoirs There has been a 7-fold increase in global storage
capacity since 1950.
2,120 ckm in rivers – constantly replaced from rainfalland melting snow and ice
1 cubic kilometre (ckm) = 1,000,000,000 cubic metre
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Problem statistics ...
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Complex interplay of local
and global influences
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PeoplePopulation growth, urbanization, sanitation,
water supply, demographic and structuralchanges, increasing per capita consumption
of water with economic development andlifestyle changes, rising water supply-sanitation gaps, public health and pollutionburdens, the growing reach and impact of city
water needs and discharges on ecosystemservices and products
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PlanetEcosystem degradation, biodiversity losses,
climate change leading to sea level rise andchanges in the hydrological cycle, rainfall
patterns, natural disasters (floods, droughts,hurricanes), the melting of ice caps andglaciers, the rates and patterns of river flow,man-made disasters (such as chemical spills)
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Past legacy systemsInadequate or poorly maintained infrastructure,
financing and pricing systems, pollutionloads, water over extraction, water-service
pricing, cultural practices and attitudes thathinder innovation
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PoliticsDiffering cultural assumptions and means of
judging water challenges, inadequate politicaland organizational systems, lack of political
leverage, upstream-downstream issues,access, equity, lack of education, cooperationor conflict between users, includingintergenerational, international and intra-
urban disputes, water as lacking any politicalvalue as an issue, manipulation of information, lack of a political voice for theecosystem
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PoliciesLack of coherent policies and their application
(governance), varying emphasis on a range of policy objectives (for example, efficiency,
security of supply, wider access, and equity),shift towards adaptive policies, issues of bestpractice, public-private partnerships,capacity-building, corruption, difficulties
inherent in creating policies regardingembedded water in global trade, global watermanagement issues
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Global water challengeEfficiency challenge
“More value per drop and more drops for less”
Leads to innovation
Security challenge
Quantity and quality for all
Freshwater stress is increasing and faster than
expected ...How much water will be withdrawn with
respect to the amount that is naturallyavailable?
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Global water challenge
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Global water challenge
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Water for businessAll businesses depend on water
Continuity and future success of any business areimpacted by the availability, cost, and quality of
water at many points along the ‘value chain’,including ‘upstream’ (in the production andsupply of raw materials), ‘midstream’ (in whatbusinesses make from raw materials or other pre-processed inputs), and ‘downstream’ (consumers
need water, and everyone needs water to betreated and recycled)
In the near future the water managementchallenges facing humanity will become morecomplex, as the prospect of water shortages,
scarcities, and stresses will increase
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Redistribution challenge“Water management is, by definition, conflictmanagement.”
Worldwatch Institute
Water is not distributed evenly over the globe -fewer than 10 countries possess 60% of theworld’s available freshwater supply:Brazil, Russia, China, Canada, Indonesia, U.S.,
India, Columbia and the Democratic Republic of Congo
China ranks fourth in the world for renewable waterresources, but because of its large population, it
has only 1/4 of the global average of water per
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Redistribution challenge
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Redistribution challengeBy 2010, low-income and emerging economiesoften lack safe drinking water – but if theywant clean water, they have to pay for it
This leads to rich getting richer and poorgetting poorer – citizens distrustsgovernments
Also in developed world, old water systemsresults in greater costs – in 2015, for the 1sttime, middle-class households struggle to payfor water bills
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Causes of water stressExcessive withdrawal of surface waters
Excessive withdrawal of water fromunderground aquifers
Pollution of freshwater resources
Inefficient use of freshwater
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Water usage
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Water for agriculture
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Cooling water
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Domestic1.8 million peopledie every yearfrom diarrhoeal
diseases(includingcholera) – theequivalent of 15
killer tsunamiseach year or 12Boeing 747crashes every
day
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Virtual water ... 1kg = ?Water does notconvertproportionately
into food productsIncreased
population andwealth has
increased demandfor higher foodproducts
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Trends affecting
freshwater usePopulation growth
Increased affluence
Expanding business activity
Rapid urbanisation
Climate change
Aging infrastructure
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Best management
practicesDrip irrigation uses plastic pipes that release waterdirectly onto the roots of the plants without floodingthe entire field, and recapture any excess water forreuse
Ashkelon, Israel – a new desalination plant on theMediterranean Sea, just north of Gaza is deliveringfreshwater at USD 0.50 per cubic meter down fromUSD 2.50 in the early 1990s. This was achieved by animproved reverse osmosis system requiring lessenergy to drive seawater through the desalination unit
Singapore is recycling “gray water” to drinking qualitystandards by using a new filtration technology(Stockholm Industry Water Award winner in 2007).
An auto/truck manufacturer operating in an arid regionof Mexico reduced its water consumption per unit of output by 90% (Stockholm Industry Water Award
winner in 2001)
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Wastewater management
caseDiscuss and present in groups:
How can water be used more efficiently
How is wastewater treated
Opinions relating to the Kuwait wastewatermanagement
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Next week ...Soil as a limited resource Managing soil
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