Water management is a high priority for companies worldwide but poses
some difficulty regarding its integration into existing sustainability
strategies.
Life Cycle Management concept is well adapted to water and is based on
measurements, e.g. water footprint. Danone benchmarked water footprint
methodologies and found that there is a growing consensus that a global
water footprint should include both water resources consumption and
pollution aspects. Methodologies addressing water resources consumption
are found to be more robust than the ones addressing pollution aspects.
Based on this finding, Danone Waters’ business unit is now deploying a
water consumption indicator weighted by a regionalized water stress index
and is pursuing research and development on methodologies addressing
degradative water use.

water footprint; sustainability strategy; corporate footprint