World Benchmarking Alliance+NAT.B10.EC Water Quality Reporting+About

This metric was designed by The World Benchmarking Alliance, more information can be found here. Sources and Alignments for each indicator can be found here as well as the scoring guidelines here

The World Benchmarking Alliance's Nature Benchmark measures and ranks the world's most influential companies on their efforts to protect our environment and its biodiversity.

This metric relates to the Indicator: The company reduces water quality pressures across the most material parts of its value chain.

Rationale: Approximately 80% of global wastewater is untreated when released back into the environment, causing significant negative effects on both ecosystem functioning and human health (IUCN, n.d.). This indicator is aligned with the SBTN interim target to reduce water quality pressures in high-impact parts of the value chain in line with good ambient water quality by 2030.