Organisation :
World Resources Institute (WRI)
Organisations increasingly quantify and report water use from their operations and supply chains, but there is limited information on how to measure water used in the generation of electricity that the organisation purchases.
This working paper proposes the first comprehensive approach to calculate water withdrawals and consumption associated with purchased electricity. It provides the first international country-level and U.S. subnational-level water use factors detailing the grid-average water withdrawal and consumption resulting from a unit of electricity consumption.