ISO - Water footprint standard published
Posted: Tuesday 30th September 2014
ISO 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.
