Description
The water footprint represents the direct and indirect consumption of water to produce a product, service or during the production activities of an organization.
The proper reporting of the Water Footprint, in compliance with the ISO 14046 Standard, identifies the elements which contribute most to water consumption during the life cycle (LCA), enabling the necessary strategies to be defined to reduce consumption.
- Water footprint verification is carried out on the basis of four indicators:
- Availability of water resources in quantitative terms
- Availability in qualitative terms (i.e. unavailability of water because it’s polluted)
- Time factors (availability over time)
- Spatial factors (availability in the reference territory).
Main Benefits
- Continuous monitoring of water consumption associated with own products/services or with own organization
- Possibility to identify improvement strategies thanks to the identification of the most critical elements from the water consumption point of view
- Enhanced image and of the environmental profile of own company
- More transparent relationship with clients.
Why TASNEEF-RINA Business Assurance?
TASNEEF-RINA Business Assurance is an International Certification Body based in the UAE. We work to guarantee excellence to public and private companies, to assure the best performance of their organizations, products, people, facilities and supply chains through Certification and Training services.
Service Steps
- Water Footprint verification is carried out according to the following steps:
- Assessment of the reporting documentation together with calculation of the water footprint
- On-site verification of data acquisition
- Modelling of the calculations made by the software used for the analysis
- Independent review by a technical expert not connected with the audit team.
