Water Efficiency Toolkit
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Business
Global Environmental Management Initiative and EDF Announced They Are Teaming up to Expand the Adoption of a New Solution Tool, the EDF-GEMI Water Management Application Toolkit
GEMI Chair, Lori Williams, Business Strategy Advisor, FedEx Corporation stated "For the past several years, GEMI and EDF have partnered on various projects aimed at helping companies achieve substantial environmental sustainability and business results, including the development of the 'GEMI-EDF Guide to Successful Corporate-NGO Partnerships' in 2008. Water sustainability is one of GEMI's primary focus areas, so it is a natural fit for us to collaborate on the expansion of the WaterMAPP toolkit."
Chair of GEMI's Water Work Group and GEMI's Vice Chair, Steve Shedroff, Section Head, Beauty Care, Global Innovation, Health, Safety, & Environment, Procter and Gamble, stated "The EDF-GEMI WaterMAPP Toolkit is a wonderful complement to GEMI's library of solution tools, including the three tools focused on water sustainability - Connecting the Drops, Collecting the Drops and The GEMI Local Water Tool (LWT)." He continued, "The EDF-GEMI Water Management Application (WaterMAPP) is a MS Excel-based, multi-tabbed spreadsheet with two primary components: the Water Scorecard to assess the water efficiency for buildings and create visibility for water use performance at facilities, and the Water Efficiency Calculator to estimate water and financial savings from cooling tower or free-air cooling improvements — key data for making the water-efficiency investment business case."
In 2012, EDF and AT&T launched a pilot project to identify opportunities to reduce water and energy use in buildings, which found that many buildings have an opportunity to reduce water use in their cooling towers. Based on the results of the pilot, the initial WaterMAPP tools and resources were developed by AT&T and EDF to help AT&T and other organizations reduce their water and related energy and chemical use. Practices highlighted in the toolkit have the potential to save 28 billion gallons annually if deployed across all U.S. buildings. Seeing an opportunity to scale, GEMI and EDF collaborated on the redesign, hosting and co-promotion of the EDF-GEMI WaterMAPP as a joint effort to help organizations reduce water and energy use in buildings.
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