The partnership aims to help drive collective action to address some of the most pressing water risks in cities and watersheds around the world.
Established in 2009, the partnership has published its second report, detailing the progress made in identifying, assessing and beginning to address the challenges facing businesses, communities and the environment in watersheds in South Africa, Peru, Tanzania and Ukraine.
Andy Wales, SABMiller’s head of sustainable development, said: “Single actors cannot alone effectively mitigate the complex and often deeply-embedded causes of water risks. Our assessments show that the fundamental causes of many of our business-specific water risks are the same drivers of the water problems facing communities and ecosystems.
“We recognise that these challenges can only be addressed through multi-stakeholder collective action and openly invite other NGOs, donors and public sector agencies, who have a shared interest in the areas in which we are working, to join our partnership. It is only by working in a participatory way can we have an impact on improving water management for communities, environment and business.”
The Water Futures Partnership was initiated by the three organisations to demonstrate the business case for private sector engagement in promoting the sustainable management of water resources.
The new report, Water Futures – addressing shared water challenges through collaborative action, highlights the intension of the partnership to include new partners and new collaboration countries – Colombia, Honduras, India and the USA. It also provides details of the actions that have been taken in the initial four partner countries to address water risk.
Source: SABMiller
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