WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2022/PRNewswire/ – The Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP), announces a new collaboration with The Water Council to support the organization’s development of a water management program for the automotive supply chain.
SP offers a platform for global auto manufacturers and their suppliers to collaborate towards a shared vision of an automobile industry with positive environmental impacts. Industry leaders come together through SP to share best practices, advance action on key environmental sustainability priorities like carbon neutrality, sustainable material management, and water conservation.
The Water Council is an internationally recognized nonprofit organization that promotes freshwater innovation. It has more than a decade collective experience working with companies.
The Water Council and Ford Motor Company will co-chair the first phase. The SP’s Water Stewardship Work Group is working together to test the design for a sector-wide water program. It will be centered on a decision-matrix and an action plan that help member organizations achieve excellence when it comes to water stewardship.
Ford believes that safe and clean water is a fundamental human right. Therefore, Ford has a responsibility to manage water resources efficiently and sustainably so that other users have access to water. Ford has made great strides in water conservation at our sites, but we also recognize the tremendous potential to work with industry peers and suppliers to further support global water challenges.” Andy Hobbs, Global Director, Environmental Quality Office Ford Motor Company
Toyota recognizes water as a global issue that must be managed locally. Therefore, we work to minimize water usage at our sites and optimize it based on local conditions. We are looking forward working with other industry partners in this new project to improve our industry’s collective efforts and drive water sustainability practices through the supply chains. Mark Yamauchi, Sustainability Manager, Toyota Motor North America.
SP will collaborate with The Water Council to pilot a sector-wide water governance methodology. It would be used to help member companies identify water-related risks that could impact priority sites, understand their impact on their source water and watersheds, prioritize risks and evaluate opportunities to take action, develop water stewardship strategies, commits and targets based in part on prioritized risk and opportunities, and communicate water stewardship actions and metrics to key stakeholders, customers, and other key stakeholders.
“By supporting the development of a Water Stewardship program that SP can implement together with its members, I intend to chart a credible, transparent path for individual businesses to follow leading to meaningful enterprise-wide water management strategies, commitments, and actions. We expect that companies from the supply base will be more prepared to report to customers and key stakeholders about the status and results of their water stewardship performance.” Matt HowardVice President Water Stewardship, The Water Council.
“Through this project we intend to create an industry-supported leadership structure to help companies in automotive value chain identify and prioritize risk related to water. We also plan to understand potential water stewardship strategies that they can implement based upon those prioritized risks. We look forward to working with The Water Council as an expert partnership to support our members’ ongoing efforts in conserving and protecting this precious resource.” Kellen MahoneyDirector, Suppliers Partnership for the Environment.
Please visit this website to learn more about this water stewardship project in the automotive supply chain. You can also get involved as a SP member. https://www.supplierspartnership.org/waterstewardship
About SP
Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP), a forum for global automotive manufacturers and their small and large suppliers, has been a key platform for them, the US EPA, and other government agencies from around the globe to collaborate towards a common vision of an automobile industry that has a positive environmental impact. Find out more at: https://www.supplierspartnership.org/
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The Water CouncilIt is a global hub that works to solve critical water problems by advancing water stewardship and driving innovation in freshwater technology. It is based on more than 100 years of water innovation and has gathered one of the most concentrated water technology groups in the world from its headquarters, the Global Water Center. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Water Council recognizes that water stewardship is an essential part of water innovation and promotes it as such.
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