Who We Are

Learning from the experiences of other social and environmental standard holding organizations, AWS is simultaneously building an International Water Stewardship Standard and the organization that will manage the Standard in the long term. Currently, both the Standard and the organizational model are under development.

With the exception of our Executive Director, AWS staff are currently “seconded” from our board organizations (notably TNC and WWF). As we build our organization AWS will gain operational independence from its board organizations.

Like the watershed-level actions we aim to facilitate, AWS as an organization must be based on continuous improvement and we intend to evolve and strengthen our organizational model with stakeholder input. Where feasible, we aim to link our work to other standards programs to improve the quality and efficiency of our work and that of other standards.