Optimizing Industry Water Use
Great Lakes Protection Fund Project 926

Effective Application of Footprinting
Methodologies to Industrial Operations

Welcome to the CGLI Water Footprinting Project Communications Center. Below are the links to the project description and the information needed to track and participate in project activities is made available. Updates will be made as the project progresses.
Links to project components will become active when information on them is available and has been added to the site.

Project Description (pdf)

Expert Panel Workshop Agenda (pdf)

Project Workshop Presentations, July 16, 2010

Project Expert Panel Workshop Summary (pdf), August, 2010



Water Footprinting and Water Accounting Protocols Under Review
Links to water footprinting and water accounting protocols

• Alliance for Water Stewardship certification scheme

• Corporate Water Gauge®

• Global Environmental Management (GEMI®) water scarcity assessment

• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) identification of water performance indicators
http://www.globalreporting.org/GRIPortal/Indicator%20Files/EN8.htm
http://www.globalreporting.org/GRIPortal/Indicator%20Files/EN9.htm
http://www.globalreporting.org/GRIPortal/Indicator%20Files/EN10.htm

• Strategic Water Management Framework for the Minerals Industry (Australia)

• UK Federation House Commitment to Water Efficiency Guidelines

• Water Footprint Network

• Water Footprint Working Group

• Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) approaches practiced via United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and Society of Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) initiatives, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Research_Impacts/Research_Themes/Theme_1/index.aspx
http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/4/919/pdf

• World Business Council for Sustainable Development Water Tool

 

Industry Sectors Included in this Project

• Pulp, paper, and forest products
Link to description of this sector
Link to sector water use summary

• Petroleum refining
Link to description of this sector
Link to sector water use summary

• Chemical manufacturing
Link to description of this sector
Link to sector water use summary

• Mining and quarrying
Link to description of this sector
Link to sector water use summary

Expert Panel

Panel membership
Link to list of panel members
Panel project work assignments
Links to list of panel project work assignments
Sector descriptions
Sector water use summaries

Project RFP
Schedule for developing RFP
Link to project RFP development schedule

Project RFP
Link to project RFP

Project Resource Materials

Changing Currents - Water Sustainability and the Future of Canada's Natural Resources Sectors

Chemical Process Industry Water Use Paper

Steel Production Report (pdf)

Project Team

Project Director
George H. Kuper, President and CEO
Council of Great Lakes Industries
3600 Green Court, Suite 710
Ann Arbor, MI 48105-1570
Phone: 734 663-1944
Fax: 734 663-2424
Email: ghk@cgli.org

Project Manager
Dale K. Phenicie
Council of Great Lakes Industries
3600 Green Court, Suite 710
Ann Arbor, MI 48105-1570
Phone: 770 487-7585
Fax: 770 631-7729
Email: dkphenicie@mindspring.com

Communications Director
Evelyn Strader
Strader & Company
3716 Sleepy Fox Dr.
Rochester Hills, MI 48309
Phone: 248 340-7062
Fax: 248 340-8712
Email: StraderCo@aol.com

 

    
 
   
 

Council of Great Lakes Industries
3600 Green Ct., Suite 710
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Phone: 734-663-1944   Fax: 734-663-2424
email: StraderCo@aol.com