ISO – Water Footprint Standard Published

ISO, International Standards Organization, 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.

Learn more: http://www.iso.org/iso/news.htm?refid=Ref1876

ISO 14046