About this project

• During a UNEP-FI meeting in Cape Town, South Africa in 2009, DEG approached WWF to consider collaboration on a water project. Our organisations had worked together in the past by looking at similar risk work on climate, yet while we had done significant work on risk from a qualitative perspective, we had never undertaken work on risk metrics. Initially, DEG was interested in understanding their own exposure to water risks via their clients, and a proposal was submitted to DEG and agreed. This was phase 1 of the project, which estimated water risks on DEGs portfolio to a number of pre-screened clients. The basic framework and risk metrics were developed and peer reviewed. The final assessment culminated in a thorough internal guidance for DEG and its clients as well as an external publication called, ‘Assessing water risk’. Because of the success of phase 1, a second project was agreed upon that built on the metrics and experience of the first phase. WWF and DEG brought businesses and other development banks and FI’s into the project as well as companies to test the tool and improve the methods. The online Water Risk Filter is the final output of this collaboration.

• Jochem Verberne, WWF International, lead
• Stuart Orr, WWF International
• Oliver Maennicke, WWF International
• Martin Geiger, WWF-Germany
• Kevin Smith, WWF-Germany
• Nina Klukas, WWF-Germany
• Marc Gange, WWF-US
• Matt McFall, WWF-US

• Ute Sudmann, DEG
• Peter Thimme, DEG
• Jens Hoenerhoff, DEG

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• TYPSA allocates more than 1% of its revenue to innovation and technological development.Our specialists in the companyamp;rsquo s technical departments are keen to keep up to date with the latest developments in their respective fields. Likewise, TYPSA endeavours to remain at the fore by creating its own applications in-house, developing state-of-the-art technology and systems to provide technical and management tools that can give an immediate response to demand.It is interesting to note that in October 2009 TYPSA Group had 31 R+D+I Projects underway, some of which were in cooperation with Universities, Research Centres, Public Bodies, etc.The application of our own and other tools to engineering ensures the highest technical standards in calculation, design, control and management processes. This enables us to provide solutions based on our own proprietary systems complemented with the latest applications.Thanks to the advanced technology that TYPSA Group has at its disposal, management and production costs can be reduced, which makes the company more competitive and at the same time means there is enough leeway to consider alternatives that require a greater investment in engineering and provide our clients with excellent quality solutions.
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Acknowledgements

• The project team wishes to thank Gretchen Lyons, Natalie Boudou, Marjorie Le Paire, Jeff Malcolm, Ashok Chapagain, Conor Linstead, Mark Eckstein, Joumlerg Hartmann, Alexis Morgan , Mao Amis (all WWF), Guido Schmidt (SNC-Lavalin), Rafael Seiz-Puyuelo and Rafael Saacutenchez-Navarro (TYPSA Group). Thanks also to our external reviewers; Guy Pegram (Pegasys), Will Sarni (Deloitte), Brian Richter (TNC), Peter Schulte (Pacific Institute) James Dalton (IUCN), Marty Matlock (University of Arkansas) and Ruth Matthews (WFN). Special gratitude goes to the Water Footprint Network (WFN) and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for their collaboration, and to Charles Vouml;rouml;smarty for providing data used in this project and granting reproduction of the resulting map.