Appendix IV: Summary of Key Indicators1


Key indicators Total respondents


Public respondents Non-public respondents Non-respondents % of invited companies that responded Other responding companies % of respondents with water policy, strategy or plan in place % of respondents with board-level oversight of policy, strategy or plan % of respondents with concrete targets or goals in place % of respondents that report actions to manage water resources or engage stakeholders % of respondents that require key suppliers to report water use, risks and management % of respondents that are able to identify operations in water-stressed regions % of respondents with more than half operations located in regions at risk % of respondents that are able to identify key water-intensive inputs from regions with water-related risk % of respondents that are able to identify whether they are exposed to risk in direct operations % of respondents that identify risk in direct operations % of respondents that are able to identify whether they are exposed to risk in supply chain % of respondents that identify risk in the supply chain % of respondents that identify risk in either direct operations or the supply chain % of respondents that suffered water-related business impacts in past 5 years % of respondents that identify opportunity % of respondents that are able to identify linkages or trade-offs between water and carbon % of respondents that report water withdrawals % of respondents that verify the majority of water withdrawal data % of respondents that report water recycling/reuse % of respondents that verify the majority of water recycling/reuse data % of respondents that report water sources significantly affected by their water withdrawals % of respondents that are able to identify discharges by destination, treatment type and quality % of respondents that paid penalties/fines for breaches of discharge regulations % of respondents that report water bodies/habitats significantly affected by discharges or runoff from their operations


1 Sector data is based on Global 500 respondents only 2 Due to small numbers of non-public respondents in Consumer Staples, Health Care, and Utilities sectors, all indicators for these sectors except the


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Water accounting


Risk and opportunity


Water management and governance


Response rate


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