Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS)

SCS provides:

• AWS Certification – Our assessment includes both a desk review and an on-site audit by Professionally Credentialed AWS Specialists to determine whether your water management practices fulfill the requirements of the AWS standard.
  SCS Global Services is an AWS Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) providing AWS Certification, Consulting and Training services. We can conduct an on-site audit to demonstrate your conformance with AWS Certification. If you’re beginning your journey, SCS can provide AWS Training, and Technical Advisory consulting services to bring you closer to achieving certification. Our auditors are Professionally Credentialed through the AWS Standard System Training program. Let us assist you to assess how your organization can ensure that your sustainable water stewardship practices meet the AWS standard.
• AWS Consulting – Review of your water management practices with your team and provide guidance to allow you to determine the best course of action to achieve AWS certification
• AWS Training – Whether you are a major water user, a regulatory body, a natural resource manager, or a civil society group, AWS training can give you what you need to advocate for and implement responsible water stewardship. Training can be customized to suit your organization’s needs and delivered virtually or in-person.

The benefits of third party independent certification with the AWS International Standard includes:

• Ensure that proper procedures are in place for responsible water stewardship to make reputable claims
• Minimize negative impacts and maximize positive impacts – socially, economically, and environmentally
• Reduce water risks and identify additional steps that can be taken
• Share water management challenges and discover solutions within the AWS network 
• Demonstrate compliance and provide assurance to site owners and all stakeholders. The AWS Assurance System is consistent with the ISEAL Assurance Code, lending consistency, rigor, competence, impartiality, transparency, and accessibility.
• Certification demonstrates that a site has successfully completed each of the steps in the AWS Standard. Certificate holders report that achieving AWS certification brings demonstrable benefits in regards of relationships with customers, increased investor confidence, strengthened social license to operate, brand perception and dialogue with regulators and policy makers.

Question: Why is independent third-party certification important?

Answer: Certification is confirmation of having met the global benchmark for responsible water stewardship. Only independent verification and certification can provide the assurance to external and internal stakeholders that your claims of good water stewardship are credible. Retail customers, wholesalers, consumers, government agencies, regulators, NGOs, local civil society organizations, local communities, investors and development financiers are just some of the audiences that certificate holders use AWS Standard certification.

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