Water - Major business forces at play
McKinsey helps to define the space: Charting Our Water Future
Of course, they have a whole practice to help you with that: Water & Waste | Sustainability & Resource Productivity Practice
CH2MHill has done an amazing job with their WaterMatch program
IDG represents the important food & grocery sector (think embodied water)
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Major players by the balance sheet:
GE - Global 50: #17
ABB - Global 500: #304 - $38B in 2011 Revenues
Who owns our water? Who treats it?
GDF Suez - Global 50: #38 (which spun off Suez Environment (~13.87 B Euro Revenues 2010)
RWE (Thames) - Global 500: #107
Vivendi Global 500: #225
Veolia Environment - Global 500: #175
Who sells us our water? - $60 billion in 2006 bottled water sales alone : an interesting business
Corporate involvement through WBCSD report ("Water Leadership Group"):
Bayer (CropScience) - Global 500: #178
Borealis, DSM,
EDF,
Greif, Holcim,
IBM - Global 100: #52
ITT, Kemira,
Kimberly-Clark - Global 500: #494
KPMG
PepsiCo - Global 500: #137
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Rio Tinto Group - Global 500: #140
Schneider Electric Global 500: #374
Royal Dutch Shell = Global 50: #2
Suncor Energy- Global 500: #268
Swarovski ,
Coca Cola Global 500: #256
The Dow Chemical Company - Global 500: #152
United Technologies Corporation - Global 500: #150
Veolia Environment - Global 500: #175
and Aquafed (Ex officio)
WRG Phase 2:
As of spring 2010, Strategic and Industry Partners of the Forum participating in the initiative included: CH2M HILL, Cisco, The Coca-Cola Company, The Dow Chemical Company, Halcrow, Hindustan Construction Company,
Nestlé ( Global 50: #42)
PepsiCo - Global 500: #137
SABMiller, Siemens, Standard Chartered Bank, Syngenta International and Unilever.
Charting Our Water Future::
(collaboration involving IFC (a member of the World Bank Group), McKinsey & Company,
The Coca-Cola Company, Barilla, New Holland Agriculture, Nestlé, SABMiller plc, Standard Chartered Bank and Syngenta AG)