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Countries: United States of America
Regions: Mississippi River
Project SDGs:
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Water Use Efficiency (SDG 6.4)
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Water Recycling and Reuse
Progress to Date: NA Reduction in water usage
Services Needed: Stakeholder engagement & facilitation
Desired Partner: Other
Language: English
Start & End Dates: Jan. 2020  »  Ongoing
Project Website: s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ungc-production/attachments/cop_2...
Contextual Condition(s): PHYSICAL: Water scarcity or drought
Additional Benefits: Raised awareness of challenges among water users
Beneficiaries: Agricultural growers
Planning & Implementation Time: More than 3 years
Primary Funding Source: corporate
Project Challenges: Other
Project Source: CEO Water Mandate
Profile Completion: 87%

Project Overview

In FY17, we deployed the NIKE Water Minimum Program to every key supplier making fabric for NIKE, setting several important performance expectations. It requires suppliers to create sitewater balance, a management tool that allows facilities to understand where their water is going. Facilities must also collect operational data from their wastewater treatment systems, which leads to improved operations. The program then mandates that facilities identify their exposure to wat…

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In FY17, we deployed the NIKE Water Minimum Program to every key supplier making fabric for NIKE, setting several important performance expectations. It requires suppliers to create sitewater balance, a management tool that allows facilities to understand where their water is going. Facilities must also collect operational data from their wastewater treatment systems, which leads to improved operations. The program then mandates that facilities identify their exposure to water-scarcity and flooding risks and develop mitigation plans in high-risk regions. Once we deployed the NIKE Water Minimum Program, we provided additional support. We invited suppliers to attend global and regional water meetings, to join learning communities, and to visit peer facilities. Through these connections, suppliers share lessons learned and best practices. When NIKE observes similar capability gaps among suppliers, we sponsor outside consultants to offer specific technical training. Beyond the NIKE Water Minimum Program, we also require each supplier facility to submit freshwater withdrawal and production data each month. We use this data to create a monthly dashboard we share and discuss with suppliers, showing not only their progress over time but how their progress compares with their regional and global peers. We leveraged the momentum of the most water_efficient suppliers to influence their peers. Once suppliers saw how their water efficiency stacked up against their peers, some realized they could do better. Those who were water inefficient took the initiative to install more water-efficient dyeing equipment or wastewater recycling to reduce their freshwater footprint. As more suppliers adopted these water-efficiency strategies, we began to see rapid progress. The fundamental challenge remains: though NIKE now uses less water than we once did, manufacturing textiles requires a lot of water. We will continue to build upon our success as we continue to drive our freshwater footprint as close to zero as possible.

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Basin and/or Contextual Conditions: PHYSICAL: Water scarcity or drought
Project Benefits: Raised awareness of challenges among water users
Indirect or Direct Beneficiaries: Agricultural growers
Months & Implementing: More than 3 years
Primary Funding Source: Corporate funding
Challenges: Other

Project Narrative

Crop Science promotes and supports ecological enhancement measures in agriculture and the recovery and protection of natural and semi-natural habitats. Together with farmers and scientific experts, we are working to find solutions to preserve biodiversity e.g. as part of the Forward Farming initiative. Forward Farming promotes the implementation of sustainable agriculture in practice across a global network of independent agricultural operations. On the Bayer Forward Farms we show how sustainable agriculture involving integrated crop protection and resistance management can be put into practice. In these representative operations, the farmers demonstrate modern cultivation techniques, approaches to applying seeds and crop protection products, and the action they take to handle resources responsibly. Our Forward Farms also promote dialogue with users and enable the local and worldwide exchange of ideas and findings among various stakeholder groups. There are currently 17 Crop Science Forward Farms spread across Europe (12), North America (2) and Latin America (3)

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NIKE, Inc., based near Beaverton, Oregon, USA, is the world's leading designer, marketer and distributor of authentic athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories for a wide variety of sports and fitness activities. Wholly-owned Nike subsidiaries include Converse Inc., which designs, … Learn More

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