Water Sustainability: What Companies Are Promising And How They Can Deliver

Water sustainability, conservation, and resiliency have become essential focus areas for many companies. While the US was once a water-rich country (and in many ways still is), with recent droughts and changing climate patterns, certain areas are seeing what used to be an abundant resource become scarce.

Water sources that traditionally fed dams and aquifers have become unreliable and unpredictable. While many operations rely on local resources or utilities to guarantee water needs, companies are also bumping up against the requirements of surrounding communities that require clean, reliable resources to exist against the organization’s needs.

Water uncertainty is quickly becoming an ever-more prevalent problem. Many companies, for that reason, are looking for ways to address water usage and become more thoughtful consumers of this precious resource. Ultimately, internal water policies that, even a few years ago, might have once been considered just “good PR” are quickly becoming a necessity.