CHRIS HEDEMANN, ACCOUNT MANAGER, CDP WATER DISCLOSURE

This article appeared in Outreach, a multi-stakeholder magazine on environment and sustainable development published at COP17. View it here.

Too many businesses still view water as simply a cheap resource. This is an oversight that could cost them and the communities in which they operate dearly. This past year alone has seen national economies shaken by the force of water, and individual organisations have not escaped the often devastating impacts of these events.