Water Stewardship and Sustainable Development

The report emphasizes the need for organizations and individuals to adopt sustainable practices to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal 6. It highlights strategies from a case study of a soft drink company and discusses sanitation management needs in business activities, providing a useful framework for developing awareness among individuals towards water conservation.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................1
Search terms.....................................................................................................................................1
Explanation .....................................................................................................................................1
Findings with twitter searches.....................................................................................................1
Findings using TAGS .................................................................................................................5
Academic sources ...........................................................................................................................9
Non academic source.....................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
The report aims at creating awareness regarding goal 6 of sustainable development which
deals with the sanitation, hygiene and availability of clean water to everyone. It will analyse the
social media conversations for evaluating the extent and impact of consciousness regarding
sustainable practices for sanitation and pure drinking water availability.
Search terms
#CleanWater
#Sanitation
#SustainableDevelopment
Explanation
Findings with twitter searches
The twitter searches have been conducted with the above mentioned search terms. From
twitter searches it has been analysed that the sustainable goal of clean water availability and
sanitation has been raised by variety of groups. It is challenging task for all nations to ensure that
the clean water is accessible to every individual. Different entrepreneurs and geologists have
raised their concerns on this issue. Social workers who work to improve the quality of drinking
water actively discuss the issue on twitter.
Sanitation is essential component for healthy living. Thus, issue has been raised by
sanitation departments, common people and municipal corporations who held the responsibility
of healthy society. The world bank of Africa has also expressed its concern over sanitation.
Different officials of nations such as Indian president, governors and higher officials of Finland,
Sweden has participated in the conversation related to sustainable development. United nations
and institutes of sustainable development also regularly updates about their actions on twitter.
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Along with twitter searches on these significant issues, different ideas have also been
observed. For instance, various twitter searches highlights the need of efficient filtration
techniques and antimicrobial hand washing towels which can help to achieve the sustainable goal
6. Some twitter searches also commented on water conservation by using solar and wind energy
for electricity generation instead of using water or hydraulic systems.
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Findings using TAGS
The awareness of sustainable goals and concerns among people can be identified by the
good number of tags and social media conversation on the issue. For instance total 2,748 tweets
were made between 12 and 22 October (11 days) and out of these tweets 2,745 tweets were
unique. Similarly, total 1480 tweets were found related to sanitation in the same time duration.
These social conversations demonstrate that people are aware regarding the issue and make
attempts to achieve sustainable goals. In the same duration 5738 numbers of tweets were
observed for sustainable development. These findings are also illustrated below through
screenshots of tags spread sheet.
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For this report, sustainable development goal 6 has been chosen. The goal aims at
ensuring the availability of clean water and sanitation management. The United nations has
formulated following targets for achieving this sustainable goal.
 To ensure the that clean water and sanitation facilities are available to everyone by 2030.
It also has special consideration for needs of women and girls.
 By 2030 UN aims at minimizing the pollution, hazardous discharge into water bodies and
to encourage efficient and wise use of water resources. UN aims at target that all nations and local authorities supports water and sanitation
related programs and integrated water management system must be implemented at all
levels.
Target chosen for business: Organisations must fulfil their corporate social responsibility. They
must make strategies which reduces the water pollution produced by business organisations.
They can support water and sanitation management by implementing it within their organisations
and by encouraging their employees.
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Academic sources
Victor, P.A., 2017. Pollution: Economy and environment. Routledge.
Source description: This source explains the role of pollution and other business factors
which leads to water scarcity. Its key findings highlights the need and significance of sustainable
development practices in business.
Critical assessment: The book has evaluated the impact of business practices on
environment and how organisations can mitigate these adverse impacts.
Development: The source is very useful for the organisations as it provides guidelines
that how business groups can minimize the pollution without compromising their profit goals.
Staddon, C., 2016. Managing Europe's water resources: twenty-first century challenges.
Routledge.
Source description: The book explains the various challenges which can be faced by
organisations in meeting their sustainable goals of water preservation.
Critical assessment: The source has critically compared the impact of water management
challenges on business performance and how it can affect the long term goals of business. It has
also suggested the remedies to resolve those challenges.
Development: The paper will analyse the possible challenges in achieving sustainable
goals. Thus, it will be beneficial for the organisations to be prepared for the upcoming challenges
and to make strategies in advance which can overcome barriers of sustainable development
without limiting growth and profit opportunities for business.
Fraser, J. and Kunz, N., 2018. Water stewardship: Attributes of collaborative partnerships
between mining companies and communities. Water. 10(8). p.1081.
Source description: The journal aims at strategies which can conserve water so that clean
water availability can be ensured.
Critical assessment: The source has evaluated the impact of partnership between
communities and business groups for achieving the sustainable goals.
Development: It can be used as the basis for developing framework which enhances the
awareness among individuals towards water conservation.
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Jeon, M.S., Park, S.J., Jang, H.J., Choi, Y.S. and Hong, W.S., 2015. Evaluation of
sanitation knowledge and practices of restaurant kitchen staff in South Korea. British Food
Journal.117(1). pp.62-77.
Source description: The journal focus on sanitation requirements in general business
practices. It has used case study of restaurant business to highlights the impact of sanitation
management.
Critical assessment: The food services are directly related to health and hygiene
practices. Thus, the case study discussed in the journal has effectively analysed the sanitation
management needs in business activities.
Development: It can be used to create the awareness regarding sanitation practices and
how business organisations can make their services more qualitative by using these approaches.
Non academic source
Water Stewardship and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6: Ensure Access to
Water and Sanitation for All, 2016 [Online]. Accessed through <https://www.coca-
colacompany.com/stories/water-stewardship-and-the-united-nations-sustainable-development-
goal-6-ensure-access-to-water-and-sanitation-for-all>
Source description: The article describes the corporate social responsibility of soft drink
company towards water management. It explains the various strategies adopted by the
organisation to achieve its sustainable goals.
Critical assessment: The article has efficiently evaluated the strategies of organisation.
For each target of sustainable goal 6, organisation has well defined strategy and plan.
Development: It will be very useful for other business institutes as it will motivate them
to incorporate sustainable practices in their business functions. Other business groups will be
inspired and guided by these strategies which will contribute towards sustainable development.
CONCLUSION
From the report it can be concluded that organisations and individuals must adopt
sustainable practices so that sustainable goals can be achieved and water resources and sanitation
management are available to all.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Fraser, J. and Kunz, N., 2018. Water stewardship: Attributes of collaborative partnerships
between mining companies and communities. Water. 10(8). p.1081.
Jeon, M.S., Park, S.J., Jang, H.J., Choi, Y.S. and Hong, W.S., 2015. Evaluation of sanitation
knowledge and practices of restaurant kitchen staff in South Korea. British Food
Journal.117(1). pp.62-77.
Staddon, C., 2016. Managing Europe's water resources: twenty-first century challenges.
Routledge.
Victor, P.A., 2017. Pollution: Economy and environment. Routledge.
Online
Water Stewardship and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6: Ensure Access to
Water and Sanitation for All. 2016. [Online]. Accessed through <https://www.coca-
colacompany.com/stories/water-stewardship-and-the-united-nations-sustainable-
development-goal-6-ensure-access-to-water-and-sanitation-for-all>
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