\u201cMany environmental factors, including water, pose both challenges and opportunities for investors and businesses. The Water Index will provide valuable insights that can inform investment decisions and will help identify new opportunities across sectors and geographies.\u201d – Tracy Wolstencroft, Goldman Sachs Global Head of Environmental Markets<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Accurately, transparently and comprehensively assessing the risks could be a boon to investment in the right places at the right times.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom a technology perspective, solutions to enable water reuse and mitigate risk already exist.\u201d – Heiner Markhoff, President and CEO, Water and Process Technologies for GE Power & Water.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
While it has always played an integral part in the life and success of any venture, business or not, water is taking on an increasingly important and therefore valuable role in the business of doing business around the world- and now there is a new comprehensive way to measure the risks and opportunities associated with those investments and innovations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Water is fast becoming a hot topic for every part of society, and in the coming decade, water will require new perspectives, more comprehensive information and innovative action. The World Resources Institute (WRI) is beginning an initiative, along with General Electric (GE) and Goldman Sachs, that will create a Water Index with the goal to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[2854,865,2341,2386,2391,2392,2393,2400,2401,2414,2422,2423,2425,2431,2438,2442,2443,2469],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Goldman-Sachs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4716"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}