New metric reveals the true water footprint of corporations

Thousands of companies around the world now regularly disclose aspects of their water use as part of corporate commitments to environmental, social, and governance goals. Yet reliable measures of corporate water withdrawals and discharges—and their impacts on local water quality and ecosystems—have been limited.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2026-02-metric-reveals-true-footprint-corporations.html