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Guiding Supply Chain Water StewardshipWorld Water Week 2019
August 26, 2019
“We believe that business, at its best, serves the public
good, empowers people around the world, and binds us together as never before.”
Tim Cook
Labor Human Rights Environment Health and Safety
Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct
supplier sItes
engaged
39%participating Supplier
reuse rate in 2018
116 25B gallons saved
to date
7.6Bgallons freshwater
savings 2018
Apple’s Supply Chain Clean Water Program
2018 Two Certified Factories,
First Gold Certified Factory in Electronics
Advancing Adoption of Water Stewardship
Importance of Developing a Water Footprint
Water Stewardship | Going beyond the factory walls
Water Stewardship | Going beyond the factory walls
Display Enclosure Camera Battery Packaging Board
Electrical’s Integrated
Circuits Glass Silicon
Assembly
Leading the Movement to Water Stewardship
Raise awareness to the standard in Asia Pacific
Digitize and automate the certification process
Certify Apple Suppliers to the AWS standard
AWS and the AWS Standard
A DIVERSE ALLIANCE WITH A COMMON GOAL
Foundation: multi-stakeholder governance
Members are from Business, Public Sector & Civil Society | Global, National, & Local
Our Mission:
We ignite and nurture global and local leadership in credible water stewardship that recognizes
and secures the social, cultural, environmental and economic value of freshwater
OUR JOURNEY TO-DATE
Phase 1: AWS Standard
System Development
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Phase 2: AWS Standard
System Implementation
2016 2017 2018 2019
Corporate commitments to AWS Certification
Standard revision process
PRIVATE SECTOR - BRANDS
NGOs - OTHER STANDARD
SYSTEMS
PUBLIC SECTOR NGOs - BRANDS
PRIVATE SECTOR –
SERVICE PROVIDERS
Selected members
AWS: GLOBAL MEMBERSHIP
A COMMON DEFINITION OF WATER STEWARDSHIP
The use of water that is:-
− socially equitable
− environmentally sustainable
− economically beneficial
achieved through a
stakeholder-inclusive process
that involves
site and catchment-based actions
3rd party certification
Credible claims
Catchment impacts
THE AWS STANDARD V2.0
AWS CERTIFICATION SNAPSHOT
~40 certified
~80 registered
~100 pipeline
IMPLEMENTER IDENTIFIED BENEFITS
Site:
- Increase efficiencies
- Enable risk mitigation
- Grow staff capacity & motivation
- Strengthen stakeholder relationships
- Build and grow community trust
Catchment:
- Improve local water quality and availability
- Protects socially and culturally important water-related areas
- Drives local collaboration
- Supports knowledge sharing
- Strengthens multi-stakeholder governance
Corporate:
- Understand sites’ risks
- Common approach across whole business
- Credible independently verifiable claims
- Contribute to CDP & other disclosures
- Support CSR activities
- Reinforces brand credentials
MORE THAN JUST A STANDARD
- Training & capacity building
- A common language for water stewardship
- Enabling member collaboration
- Facilitating learning, dialogue and knowledge sharing
- Advancing awareness of water stewardship
- Discrete projects
- Sector engagement
Learnings from AWS Implementation in China
•AWS Foundation and Advanced Training to Core Team
•Self-assessment
Our Approach
•Site Kick-off and Gap Assessment
•Action Plan and Implementation
•3rd Party Audit
•Implementation Tools, Templates and Examples
•Good Practice Catalogue
• 3 AWS training sessions
• 63 participants from 20 companies
• 2 sites certified in 2018
• 3 sites on-track to be certified this year
• 7 sites conducted gap assessment
• 2 network meetings
• 26 organisations participated
• 2 catchment studies
Program Key Figures - 2018 ~ 2019 Aug.
Driving Changes
Typical Suppliers
CWP Graduate
AWS Core
AWS Gold
Level of Sustainability in Water Management
Nu
mb
er
of
Sit
es
A Site’s Typical AWS Journey
April
AWS 2-day Training
May
Kick-off & Gap Assessment
Jun
Action Plan
- Catchment study
- Stakeholder & Supply chain
- New procedures, policies and plans
Sept
Pre-audit (not a must)
- Leadership Commitment
- Project Implementation
- Communication & Disclosure
Dec
Final Audit & Certificate
New Year
Maintain System
Experience Sharing
Nov
Public Consultation
Activities & Outcomes
Site Level Activities
Community Engagement200+ People Reached
Water Quality Monitoring Beyond the Factory Fence
9 Primary Suppliers Engaged in Water Usage and Risk Survey
Activities & Outcomes
Site Level Improvements
8 Stakeholder Consultation Meetings Organised or Attended
10+ Groups of Visitors to the Site and Experience Sharing
Environmental and Water Information Disclosure
Quarterly Gathering
Water Stewardship China Network
– International NGOs
– Local NGOs
– Water Utility Operator
– Global Brands / MNCs
– Local Companies
– Consultants
– Financial Institutes
Sept. in Zhejiang
Dec. in Nanjing
Learnings:Earlier Adopters
“It was very challenging to obtain catchment info at the beginning. We also didn’t know how to reach consensus with certain stakeholders.”
Site Manager
“Learning about catchment context is key for us to understand government long-term vision and
foresee policy trend.”
Site Manager
“Taking the initiative to meet with stakeholders and listening to their ideas helped to avoid community conflicts and get more brand
recognition.”
Site Manager
Learnings:Other Partners
“Companies need to look long-term and have a feeling of a community with shared future. We also introduced
designated incentive policy to reward leaders and hope to accelerate the transformation”
Local Environmental Protection Official
“Kunshan shows a great example when various programs joining forces to promote water stewardship, build local
capacity, develop pilot case and drive policy change.”
WWF China
Learnings:Apple and AWS AP
•What’s unique about this sector and China?
•Have we found a model to scale up at catchment level to achieve visible impacts?
•Have AWS Standard proven to be relevant?
•What’s the remaining gap?
Key Learnings
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New Tools and Learning Platform
1. SECTOR LEADERSHIP
2. PRACTICAL SUPPORT
3. EVIDENCE
WHY COLLABORATION WITH APPLE MATTERS
SECTOR LEADERSHIP
SECTOR LEADERSHIP
PRACTICAL SUPPORT
EVIDENCE
Global Water Stewardship Forum
November 12-13, Edinburgh
SUMMARY
- AWS offers a clear pathway to improved water stewardship
- Pathway provides opportunities for leadership and collaboration
- Our collaboration with Apple will help others on their water stewardship journey
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Q&A Session
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Compliance Clean Water Program AWS
PermitExecutive
Sponsorship
Assessment
Sampling
Water
Balance
Engagement
Reporting
Program
Graduation Certification