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A Practical Guide to Catchment-Based Water Management for the Mining and Metals Industry

23 February 2015

This guidance outlines a comprehensive and systematic approach for identifying, evaluating and responding to catchment-based water related risks in line with ICMM’s water stewardship principles.

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  • A catchment-based approach to managing water resources considers activities and issues across the entire catchment. Given the critical role that water plays in operations, metals and mining companies recognise their responsibilities and interests in acting as effective water stewards – mitigating shared risks and addressing shared impacts at the catchment level.
  • This guide has been commissioned to support ICMM members and other interested industry stakeholders to:
    • Understand the relevance, risks and opportunities of a catchment-based approach to water risk management.
    • Support companies to define and deliver their own catchment-based water risk management strategies.

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