LimnoTech Joining Partners and Collaborators for World Water Week 2024!
August 20, 2024
World Water Week (WWW) is the leading conference on global water issues, where experts come together to collaborate and share their ideas, experiences, and learnings. The water conference will take place in Stockholm, Sweden, and virtually from Sunday, August 25 to Thursday, August 29. World Water Week is organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) to bring together organizations from all sectors and regions to find solutions to the world’s greatest water-related challenges.
Laura Weintraub, Penelope Moskus, and Tim Dekker, experts and leaders from LimnoTech’s water stewardship team, look forward to participating, presenting, and serving as panelists and facilitators. Check out these sessions, where Laura, Penelope, and Tim will share their knowledge and experience with the listed co-presenters and partners.
Volumetric and Water Quality Benefit Accounting Approaches
Date/Time: Sunday, August 25, 11:00-12:30 CEST (5:00-6:30 am EDT)
Location: Online & On-site C2, Level 2 (Session ID 11470)
About: LimnoTech, Bluerisk, Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and World Resources Institute (WRI) will introduce approaches for evaluating water stewardship activities. This session will dive into forthcoming guidance on 1) Volumetric Water Benefit Accounting and 2) Water Quality Benefit Accounting. Participants will discuss challenges and opportunities for applying these approaches.
Moderators: Todd Reeve (Bonneville Environmental Foundation) and Naabia Ofosu-Amaah (The Nature Conservancy)
Speakers and Panelists: Laura Weintraub (LimnoTech), Marc Dettman (World Resources Institute), Tara Varghese (Google), Stefanie Woodward (Meta), Shannon Quinn (Procter & Gamble), Mikael Clement (Nestle Waters), and Truke Smoor (Cargill)
Q&A Facilitation: Penelope Moskus (LimnoTech) and Sara Hoversten (Bonneville Environmental Foundation)
Convenors: World Resources Institute, LimnoTech, Bluerisk, Bonneville Environmental Foundation, and The Nature Conservancy
Replenishment
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 27, 8:00-9:15 CEST (2:00-3:15 am EDT)
Location: Water Stewardship Hub – SIDE EVENT (7A Posthuset, Vasagatan 28, 11120)
About: Replenishment has facilitated support for freshwater conservation programs globally for over 15 years, but implementing it in its current form has also created challenges for organizations delivering projects and unintended consequences for companies chasing replenishment projects. This session aims to catalyze the start of a conversation about the future of Replenishment and how challenges being faced by the current approach could be solved.
Speakers and Panelists: Representatives from WWF, TNC, WaterAid, Water.org, IUCN, Wetlands International and Conservation International, including Penelope Moskus (LimnoTech)
Convenors: WWF, TNC, WaterAid, Water.org, IUCN, Wetlands International and Conservation International, and LimnoTech
Nature’s Balance Sheet: Introducing Biodiversity Benefit Accounting
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 27, 9:30-10:45 CEST (3:30-4:45 am EDT)
Location: Water Stewardship Hub – SIDE EVENT (Room # 314 – 7A Posthuset, Vasagatan 28, 11120)
About: Water Stewardship programs often fail to account for the profound connections between water and biodiversity, leading to missed opportunities to enhance environmental, societal, and business outcomes. This session will be the official launch event for the Biodiversity Benefit Accounting (BioBA) landscape assessment and showcase the upcoming standardized framework with appropriate indicators and metrics to effectively integrate biodiversity into corporate water stewardship. This framework will provide businesses with general guidance on how to incorporate biodiversity considerations into their water management strategies.
Speakers: Laura Weintraub (LimnoTech), Tim Dekker (LimnoTech), Gregg Brill (Pacific Institute), Kari Vigerstol (The Nature Conservancy), Naabia Ofosu-Amaah (The Nature Conservancy), and Ambria McDonald (3M)
Convenors: CEO Water Mandate, The Nature Conservancy, and LimnoTech
NPWI: Bridging Boundaries in Corporate Water Stewardship
Date/Time: Thursday, August 29, 14:00 – 15:30 CEST (8:00-9:30 am EDT)
Location: Online & On-site A2, Level 6 (Session ID 11651)
About: This session introduces Net Positive Water Impact (NPWI) and discusses it from the perspective of bridging application scales and aligning with other corporate water stewardship approaches. This will be discussed from the views of the framework developers, other thought leaders, corporates, and practitioners.
Hosted By: Gregg Brill (Pacific Institute/CEO Water Mandate)
Speakers: Laura Weintraub (LimnoTech), Ambria McDonald (3M), Kirsten Jame (Ceres), Lucie Gerber (Quantis), Jason Morrison (Pacific Institute/CEO Water Mandate), Klaudia Schachtschneider (Pacific Institute/CEO Water Mandate), Kari Vigerstol (TNC), and Scott McCready (AWS)
Convenors: 3M, Alliance for Water Stewardship, Ceres, Danone, LimnoTech, Pacific Institute, Quantis, The CEO Water Mandate, and The Nature Conservancy
LimnoTech is also proud to be a team member and partner on the projects and work highlighted in these two sessions.
Science Based Targets (SBTs) for Nature: Local Data, Global Ambition
Date/Time: Sunday, August 25, 9:00-10:30 CEST (3:00-4:30 am EDT)
Location: Online & On-site C2, Level 2 (Session ID 11636)
About: This session will help companies, civil society organizations, and policymakers understand how nature SBTs bridge the gap between local data and global ambition. Company panelists who have piloted the SBT methodology over the last year will explain how setting SBTs fits within their broader environmental and social strategies.
Convenors: CDP Worldwide, Pacific Institute, Science Based Targets Network, The Nature Conservancy, World Resources Institute, and World Wide Fund for Nature
**LimnoTech has been serving as the primary technical consultant to the Freshwater Hub of the SBTN under contract with WWF. In this role, LimnoTech’s Dave Dilks was the lead developer and primary author of the “Step 3 Freshwater: Measure, Set & Disclose (Version 1.1), Science Based Targets Network (SBTN), 2024,” which defined a step-by-step process for setting SBTs for Water.
Leveraging Technology to Maximize Water Stewardship Impacts
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 28, 9:00 – 10:30 CEST (3:00-4:30 am EDT)
Location: Online & On-site A2, Level 6 (Session ID 11471)
About: Overview of how companies are investing in technologies that scale the impact of water stewardship programs. Two conversations within this 90-minute session will detail how innovative technologies can enhance replenishment outcomes and replenishment project monitoring.
As part of the session, The Stroud Water Research Center will discuss how they are expanding the functionality and geographic scope of the Model My Watershed tool in ways that allow funders and practitioners to optimize investments in watershed restoration efforts. The session will also cover replenishment project monitoring to enhance the credibility of volumetric benefit claims.
**As partner and team member with The Stroud Water Research Center, LimnoTech’s Anthony Aufdenkampe envisioned and led Model My Watershed development since 2009 (partially under a previous association) by coordinating a funding coalition (National Science Foundation, William Penn Foundation, and others) and forming a multi-organization technical development partnership (Stroud Water Research Center, LimnoTech, Element 84 (formerly Azavea), and others). LimnoTech continues as technical lead in close collaboration with software engineers at Element 84 and the outreach team at the Stroud Water Research Center. Model My Watershed is an award-winning, high-performance, open-source conservation decision support web application.
The World Water Week 2024 theme is “Bridging Borders: Water for a Peaceful and Sustainable Future,” with a call “to recognize the regional and global interconnectivity of communities and nations and the collaborative effort needed to achieve a peaceful and sustainable future.” The conference organizer invites attendees to “explore how water can help us tackle the world’s greatest challenges and learn about the role of water in the fight against climate change, poverty, and biodiversity loss” and notes that the week will be “shaped by hundreds of convening organizations, driving positive change in a collaborative effort through capacity building and knowledge sharing.” Our LimnoTech team looks forward to continuing discussions and taking bold actions with our partners and collaborators to address these challenges head-on.
For more information on World Water Week, go to https://www.worldwaterweek.org/.
Online participation is free. Event registration information can be found here.
If you want to learn more about LimnoTech’s participation in World Water Week, our role in the work described in the above sessions, or our contributions to corporate water stewardship, please reach out to Laura Weintraub at lweintraub@limno.com.
