ISO 46001:2019 Water efficiency management systems

Courtesy: ISO 46001:2019 Water efficiency management systems

ISO 46001, Water efficiency management systems – Requirements with guidance for use, offers a single, clear framework for all organizations wishing to improve their water efficiency performance.

It includes a series of processes that enables the staff with various responsibilities across an organization to use data to assess and account for water usage, and to identify, plan and implement measures to improve water efficiency performance.

It will provide organizations a proven approach to develop a water efficiency management plan addressing critical aspects of water efficiency performance—including water use, measurement, documentation, reporting, procurement practices, and other variables affecting water efficiency management that can be measured and monitored.

The standard will provide the following benefits:

1. By setting out management requirements, the standard will help organizations create transparency and facilitate communication on the management of water resources and the implementation of water efficient measures in accordance with an internationally recognized minimum standard.
2. If adopted and implemented by an organization, the standard will help the organization demonstrate that it is taking measures to optimize water use, as evidence of its commitment to the principles of social responsibility.
3. It will be an internationally agreed standard allowing both internal and external assurance for the implementation of water efficient measures.
4. ISO 46001 is based on the high levels structure (HLS) for ISO management systems standards and therefore allows integration with other organizational management systems such as energy efficiency (ISO 50001), and health and safety (ISO 45001).

Facility management is one of the fastest growing professional and operational disciplines and it needs some global consistency. And that is where ISO 41001 can help. 

ISO 41001 is the international standard for a Facility Management (FM) system . It provides a framework to develop, implement and maintain effective facilities management across different sectors worldwide. Benefits include:

Pressure on water availability and its use is rising and immediate action is the need of the hour. Gaps in access to water supply and sanitation, growing populations, more water-intensive patterns of growth, increasing rainfall variability and pollution are combining in many places to make water one of the greatest risks to economic progress, poverty eradication and sustainable development.