Water Management
Water management is the management of water resources under set policies and regulations. Water, once an abundant natural resource, is becoming a more valuable commodity due to droughts and overuse. Here are links to articles that address water management subjects such as the optimization of water usage.
Green Drive Saves Hilton $74m in Two Years
LightStay, the sustainability measurement system used by Hilton Worldwide and its portfolio of 10 hotel brands, has saved the company more than $74 million since its ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Power Efficiency Standard, Dow Solar Certifications, NSF/ANSI 350
The Storage Networking Industry Association announced on Monday the release of a specification for measuring data storage systems for power efficiency, ZDNet reported. After three ...
Siemens Launches Wastewater Purifier
Siemens has announced the launch of a specialty media that removes regulated metals from industrial wastewater, groundwater and storm runoff water.
SCU Trace Metal Removal Media removes ...
CleanMetrics Corp. Introduces Efficiency Software
CleanMetrics Corp. has launched MetaFlowScope, a software application aimed at reducing companies' economic and environmental costs.
The firm says that MetaFlowScope is the first program to ...
Clorox Integrated Report Shows Progress on Energy, GHGs, Water, Waste
Clorox has released its first integrated financial, environmental, social and governance report, which shows that energy consumption fell from 1.81 to 1.78 MWh ...
Procter & Gamble Cuts Scope 2 GHGs, but Scope 1 Rises
Procter & Gamble's scope 1 CO2 emissions rose from 2.8 million to 2.9 million metric tons in 2011, but scope 2 emissions fell ...
Cargill Ahead of Targets on Energy, GHGs, Water
Cargill's energy efficiency improved by 3.7 percent over its 2010 baseline during fiscal year 2011, according to a company statement.
During the year ending May ...
Levi’s Jeans Save 16m Liters of Water
For its spring line, Levi's has produced almost 1.5 million pairs of jeans from its "Water<Less" range while saving 16 million liters of water in the ...
Microsoft Lags on 2012 CO2 Goal
Microsoft is behind schedule on a goal of reducing carbon emissions per unit of revenue by 20 percent by 2012, from a 2007 ...
Home Depot, KB Home, KPMG Win EPA Water and CHP Awards
The Home Depot and KPMG are among companies awarded the Energy Star Combined Heat and Power award and named as 2011 WaterSense Partners of the Year, ...
GRI Proposes Metrics for Firms’ Ecosystem Benefits
The Global Reporting Initiative has proposed a new approach for organizations to examine ecosystems as “service providers."
Approach for Reporting on Ecosystem ...
Greenbuild Briefing: Johnson Controls, Dow, Noveda, American Standard
Here is the latest news from the Greenbuild conference and expo, taking place in Toronto this week:
Johnson Controls unveiled Panoptix, a building efficiency offering ...
Lilly Meets Green Goals Early
Through the end of 2010 Eli Lilly and Company reduced the amount of waste sent to landfills by about 50 percent and reduced its water intake ...
Frito-Lay Opens ‘Near Net Zero’ Facility
Snack food giant Frito-Lay has opened what the company calls a "near net zero" plant in Arizona.
The "near net zero" vision was to transform an existing ...
UK Food and Drink Industry Cuts Water Use 12%
A coalition of U.K. food and drink firms, including the British arms of Nestle and PepsiCo, has reduced their total water use per ton of product ...
Wineries Innovate to Re-use Wastewater
The Parducci, Caymus, Conundrum, Alpha Omega and Rombauer wineries are applying innovative methods to treat their wastewater, according to a San Francisco ...
Merck Cuts GHGs, Outlines Post-Merger Goals
Merck’s sales and acquisition-adjusted GHG emissions fell by six percent between 2009 and 2010, from 2.21 and 2.08, according to the company’s 2010 global corporate responsibility report, its first in accordance with GRI principles since ...
University of Michigan to Pump $14m Into Green Measures
The University of Michigan (pictured) is to invest $14 million in green initiatives as it aims to meet a host of environmental goals by 2025.
The green ...
Water Briefing: WeatherTrak, PPG, Converted Organics, Ridgeline
The Dorchester condominium association in Palm Beach, Fla. saved 1.1 million gallons of water after implementing the WeatherTRAK Smart Water Management platform ...
Sodexo Reveals First Carbon and Water Measurements
Sodexo emitted 71,368 metric tons of carbon equivalent in 2010, according to the company's first performance-based sustainability report for North America.
The report included a ...
