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Water Sector Benchmarking and Environmental Sustainability
This article discusses benchmarking in the water sector and the development of environmentally‐based performance standards, despite the focus on the operational, financial, and regulatory compliance performance of utilities. The article discusses the growing interest among water sector practitioners, together with rich, historic data that are generating a need for a comprehensive and systematic sector‐wide evaluation of the success of benchmarking initiatives. However, no internationally recognized program currently exists that adequately appraises and rewards water utilities that are excelling in protecting watersheds, maintaining adequate water flows to sustain river ecosystems (also called environmental flows), conserving water resources, and systematically implementing integrated water resource management. The article goes on to mention that, by designing and implementing its Blue Water Awards initiative (Richter, 2007), The Nature Conservancy is attempting to help utilities respond to these pressures by translating freshwater biodiversity and watershed protection and conservation goals into operational and economic objectives.
Water Sector Benchmarking and Environmental Sustainability
This article discusses benchmarking in the water sector and the development of environmentally‐based performance standards, despite the focus on the operational, financial, and regulatory compliance performance of utilities. The article discusses the growing interest among water sector practitioners, together with rich, historic data that are generating a need for a comprehensive and systematic sector‐wide evaluation of the success of benchmarking initiatives. However, no internationally recognized program currently exists that adequately appraises and rewards water utilities that are excelling in protecting watersheds, maintaining adequate water flows to sustain river ecosystems (also called environmental flows), conserving water resources, and systematically implementing integrated water resource management. The article goes on to mention that, by designing and implementing its Blue Water Awards initiative (Richter, 2007), The Nature Conservancy is attempting to help utilities respond to these pressures by translating freshwater biodiversity and watershed protection and conservation goals into operational and economic objectives.
Water Sector Benchmarking and Environmental Sustainability
Gritsinin, ALexander (author) / The Nature Conservancy
Journal ‐ American Water Works Association ; 100 ; 50-52
2008-04-01
3 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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