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American Business Conferences specializes in hosting industry-specific global summits for end-users of new technologies, including government, research and private sector organizations
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Financing High Speed Rail USA |
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Post Recession Consumer Trends 2010 |
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EV Battery Tech 2010: Global Cost Reduction Initiative |
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LCA Sustainable Supply Chain Summit USA 2010 |
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Corporate Water Scarcity Risk Management UK |
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The impact of water scarcity on local communities where insufficient water endangers human health and lives is widely understood. For businesses wishing to ensure their future sustainability, who have already taken substantial steps to reduce their carbon emissions and measure their water footprint, a more detailed explanation now needs to be made about the specific issue of water availability - an increasing area of concern to many major corporations who are doing business in water constrained areas. Water scarcity is an issue on almost every continent and in many regions, including Europe, China, Middle East and parts of Western USA.
While most companies in sectors such as food and beverage, apparel, other consumer products; heavy industry; mining, petro-chemical or pharmaceutical will be familiar with the concept of the water footprint, those that have direct operations in areas facing water stress issues, or who may be competing with local communities or businesses for water will now need to look beyond the footprint for strategic, risk management and technical solutions to the issue of water availability. American Business Conferences, leading providers of research-focused, business Summits in the Sustainability and Water fields are pleased to announce the ‘Water Footprint, Availability, Risk Management Summit’ (Understanding, Measuring and Managing Water Scarcity Risks in the Supply Chain), taking place this February 25-26 2010 in San Francisco.
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Water Footprinting Availability And Risk Management - 2010 Summit details NOW HERE
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Continuing with the success of our Global Carbon and Water Footprint Series of Summits, the ‘Water Footprint, Availability, Risk Management Summit USA’ is attracting dozens of top corporate names from across North America who are currently analyzing the commercial risks from water scarcity and interpreting the fact that areas which may have had an abundance of water two or three years ago are now close to becoming water scarce – invalidating assumptions made two or three years ago about where to site operations.
The Summit is attracting a range of interests - from those who wish to be able to strategically plan their sustainable raw materials sourcing by taking account of water scarcity issues, to those in the organization who wish to ensure their manufacturing and agricultural supply chains are socially and ethcially sustainable as well. Large multinationals with supply chain networks all over the world foresee major problems if they have not implemented company-wide policies with relation to a core commodity like water.
Top companies at the Summit will discuss WHY they have approached the issue of water risk and HOW they have taken the concept of water footprinting one step further to understand and assess the impacts of water usage in different local contexts. This is the first event of its kind to look at water scarcity mapping and regional water scarcity figures, and link them to actual business decision-making, for example; how or where to manufacture products, source materials or site future operations. Best practice sharing in this field is absolutely essential. There will be no sales pitches or company overviews at this event. Instead we will be providing you with detailed insights from across an exceptional group of diverse international corporations, including MillerCoors, L’Oreal, Nestle Waters, Rio Tinto, Intel, Procter & Gamble and Nike.
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