Members Only Meeting - Attendance limited to representatives of existing SP member companies. Attendees will receive Zoom login information after acceptance of their registration request.

2024 SP Water Stewardship Work Group kickoff virtual meeting. This meeting will introduce SP's 2024 Water Stewardship work plan and objectives, including: Water Stewardship Capacity Building; Core Water Metrics Identification and Mapping; and, Tracking Emerging Issues re: Water in the EV Value Chain.

Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP) is pleased to continue its partnership with The Water Council (TWC) in support of SP's goals for improving the water stewardship performance of its member organizations through the development of a comprehensive water stewardship program for the sector. The first two deliverables of that work program have been completed: the SP Water Stewardship Action Matrix​ (2022) and the SP Water Stewardship Strategy Framework​ (2023). With a strategy now in place outlining a sectoral water ambition and a site-level tool available to the sector to provide baseline knowledge to users on water challenges and opportunities, additional capacity building and support mechanisms need to be developed.

In 2024, TWC will work with SP staff and key members to develop a water stewardship capacity building system that supports alignment around the Water Stewardship Strategy Framework and use of the site-specific Water Stewardship Action Matrix. With limited time and bandwidth, suppliers would benefit from customized assistance to understand and apply the water stewardship best practices from across the sector and found within SP's toolbox of resources.

Further, reporting water-related outcomes publicly is daunting for smaller companies. Building a system of support materials that leads to better understanding of how outcomes map to external reporting frameworks would greatly benefit suppliers. Identifying and mapping key water metrics across multiple reporting frameworks would provide SP members with a pool of common metrics on which to focus and incorporate into their own tracking and reporting schemes. The general principle should be to make credible reporting as easy as possible for suppliers while providing a foundation on which to build more mature water