How To Use It

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The GEMI Local Water Tool™ (LWT) is a free tool made by a group of 40+

global companies to help them and other companies identify the external

impacts, business risks, and opportunities related to water use and discharge

at a specific site or operation. The information generated in the Local Water

Tool may be used by companies for developing management plans and

communicating outcomes at their discretion.

SP Canada

June 2012

About GEMI

Goals of the GEMI Local Water Tool™

Participants

Background

Module Framework

• Home

• Module 1: Site Data

• Module 2: Local External Conditions

• Module 3: External Impact Assessment

• Module 4: Risk Assessment

• Module 5: Management Plan

• Module 6: Reporting

• References

Agenda

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Vision:

“GEMI is a global leader in developing

insights and creating environmental

sustainability solutions for business.”

Mission:

“Business helping business achieve

environmental sustainability excellence”

GEMI Values

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Current GEMI Members

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Water Sustainability

Climate Change & Energy

Supply Chain

Sustainable Development & Emerging Issues

Communications Professionals

GEMI Signature Issues

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Help companies assess impacts, risks,

opportunities and manage water-related issues

at specific sites.

Provide a common and consistent “visualization

platform” for internal and external

communication.

Provide interconnectivity between global and

local water risk assessments and a uniform

approach between site assessments.

Create a central repository of information to

create reports for multiple water questionnaires.

Goals of GEMI Local Water Tool™

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GEMI Members & GEMI LWT™

Project Participants

GEMI Member Companies: GEMI LWT™ Project Participants:

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Tool Developer:

Business Water Risk and Modeling Tools: 3 Levels of Assessment

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1. Global Risk

Assessment of Portfolios

2. Local Risk Assessment

of Specific Site

3. Detailed Water

Modeling of Specific Site

• How many sites are in

extremely water scarce areas?

• Which sites are in greatest risk

areas?

• How many employees live in

countries that lack access to

water supply or sanitation?

• What are the water risks at this

site:

• Physical supply

• Regulatory

• Social

• Competition

• Climate variability

• Which risks are greatest?

• What is our management plan?

Designed to answer questions at different levels:

• What is optimum water

balance between process

streams?

• Which month has the

greatest stress?

• What % of river water flow

is used?

The GEMI LWT™ was developed in cooperation with the WBCSD and its

Global Water Tool.

The GEMI LWT™ for Oil and Gas was developed in cooperation with the

IPIECA and its Global Water Tool for Oil and Gas.

The tools are mutually compatible and a provider of best practices for

sustainable water management at the global, regional, national and local

levels.

Supporting nomenclature, data continuity and software system were

developed to be compatible between the GEMI, WBCSD and IPIECA tools to

ensure the User’s ability to transfer data between the tools.

References and web links to the respective tools are posted on the three

organization’s web sites.

The GEMI, WBCSD and IPIECA water tools are intended for free use by the

public and are posted in the public domain.

Synergy and Compatibility of Tools

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Global portfolio water metrics and

high level risk assessment

Outcomes of Global Water

Tool (GWT)

When a Company has a global portfolio risk

assessment – what happens next?

WBCSD Global Water Tool:

One MS Excel File for Portfolio

GEMI Local Water Tool™:

One MS Excel File per Site

Specific site internal & external

data is transferred to the new

GEMI Local Water Tool™ MS

Excel files for detailed

assessment

Site A

Site B

Site C

Site D

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IPIECA Global Water Tool for Oil and Gas:

One MS Excel File for Portfolio

GEMI Local Water Tool™

for Oil and Gas:

One MS Excel File per Site

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Specific Risks

Opportunities

Tool Outcomes - Overall

Specific Impacts

Identify and rank:

Management Plans

Site-Level Metrics

For each Water

Source or

Discharge Point

Specific Impact

or Risk Issue

Impacts and

Risks with

Levels 0-9

Document:

Calculate:

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Tool Outcomes – Management Plans

Links Risks and Impacts to Management Plans:

Business Risks External Impacts

Management Plan and

Opportunity Information

The GEMI LWT™ is valuable for an

operation or planned project that has one

or more of the following traits:

– Relies on water input(s) for operation

– Requires effluent discharge for operation

– Has a significant number of staff in one location

Top priority can be given to sites in water

stressed or environmentally sensitive

areas (may be identified through the GWT

or other data source)

GEMI LWT™ Site Candidates

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Power Plant Case Example

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Tool showed specific

high risks:

Local ecosystems under

stress from other larger

users in the area

Cumulative demand in

area would soon exceed

local supply

Increasing community

public concern on the

plant’s water use

While this plant has closed loop

cooling and has reduced water

usage, it still faces external risks.

After using the LWT, the plant took action

to address each risk:

• Increased external communication on

water efficiency

• Investigated the use of recycled

municipal effluent or hybrid dry cooling

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Impact

Organizations with few water impacts

may face many water-related risks.

Local Communities

Site

Operations

Extent to which the

volume and/or quality

of water used or

discharged by an

organization in a

specific watershed

affects the availability

of that water for other

uses or harms

human health or

ecosystems in any

other way.

Local Watershed

Risk

Potential business

liabilities faced by

site as a result of

impacts and external

water-related drivers

and constraints.

Opportunity

Potential top line

business

enhancements

created by voluntary

sustainable water

management actions.

Key Definitions

Module Framework

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Introduction and Home

1. Site Data

(User enters internal company data and defines the Internal Importance Level of Influent Sources and

Receiving Waterbodies/Entities)

2. Local External Conditions (User reviews external data to define External Stress Severity Levels for 20 Water Issues)

3. External Impacts Assessment (A site’s external impacts on Influent Sources and Receiving Waterbodies/Entities are identified and ranked)

4. Risk Assessment (The external risks to the site are identified and ranked)

5. Management Plan (User identifies Current Management Methods, Opportunities, Assesses Sufficiency and Plans for Future)

6. Reporting and Summary Dashboard (Metrics are generated for GRI, Dow Jones, CDP Water, Bloomberg)

References, FAQ, Definitions

2012 Board of Directors

Chair: Bill Gill, Smithfield Foods

Vice Chair: Neville Dias, Carnival Corporation & plc

Finance Chair: Bill Lechner, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company

Membership Chair: Lori Williams, FedEx

Benchmarking/Next Initiatives Chair: Lindell Sneed, Abbott

Solution Tools Chair: Steve Shedroff, Procter & Gamble

Communications and Marketing Chair: Heather Tansey, 3M

Senior Advisory Council (SAC) Chair: Steve Schwalb, Perdue Incorporated

Chair Emeritus: Keith Miller, 3M

GEMI Management

Executive Director: Steven Hellem

Director: Amy Goldman

Phone: 202-296-7449

Email: info@gemi.org

Web site: www.gemi.org

1155 15th Street, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005 USA

How to Contact GEMI

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www.gemi.org/localwatertool

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GEMI welcomes feedback on the use and

value of the GEMI LWTTM to your company.

Please send feedback to: info@gemi.org