From the Field
19 March 2026
The Alliance for Water Stewardship released Version 3.0 of its certification standard at Suntory's Tokyo headquarters, bringing stakeholder engagement and catchment-level planning to corporate water management across the Asia-Pacific region.
18 March 2026
The Alliance for Water Stewardship releases Version 3.0 of its certification framework, refining how corporations engage with watershed governance beyond efficiency metrics — a shift toward catchment-scale accountability as water becomes boardroom risk.
12 March 2026
Nestlé's achievement of AWS certification across 39 bottling sites raises deeper questions about how corporations govern shared water resources — and whether certification frameworks can transform extraction into genuine stewardship.
12 March 2026
As drought forces weekly water rationing in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania launches water stewardship training for 30+ public officials — an experiment in building trust-based governance between state agencies and private actors around shared catchments.