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Factor-X

The Climate
Consulting Group SPRL

Avenue de la Paix 3
1420 Braine-l'Alleud
BELGIUM

T: +32 2 387 17 87
Fax: +32 2 888 63 34
TVA : BE 0890 101 395
Email : info[at]factorx.eu

Water

Anticipate and mitigate risks associated with hydric resources throughout the whole life cycle of your products. Develop innovative concepts to manage real and virtual water resources.

Blue gold will probably be the first natural resource for which local shortage will induce severe problems to the real economy. This risk must be integrated today into all levels of your operations.

Why ask Factor-X ?

We offer water resource management solutions at technical, economic and conceptual levels, which are innovative to develop your activity or territory in relation with a strong sustainability objective. The advantages you will draw from our cooperation match the stakes. We want that water becomes a differentiation factor of the environmental policy of our clients.

What can we do together ?

The objective is to understand and act with you on risks related to hydric resources along your value chain.

Through its analysis, awareness raising and concerted consultation work, Factor-X guides you toward the integration of the real cost of water at the centre of your corporate strategy :

  • Development of specific tools to conduct a comprehensive assessment of water resources usages and to evaluate the water footprint of activities, sectors and products
  • Evaluation and monetarisation value of environmental services provided by aquatic ecosystems (water purification, transport, leisure, etc.) in order to estimate their actual value and to reduce impacts on these ecosystems
  • Consumption and operational costs reduction, closed loop operation
  • Training and awareness raising (integrated water resource management, virtual water, water consumption in agricultural and industrial sectors relocalisation,…)

Our focus areas

Business strategy integrating water resources, Water footprint, integrated water resource management, management plan of water risks, training and awareness raising

Methodologies

Our know-how is based on our mastery of water expertise tools, including :

  • Methodologies developed by the Water Footprint Network (Water Footprint Tool), the Global Environmental Management Initiative (Collecting the drops : a water sustainability planner) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (Global Water Tool)
  • The concept of integrated water resource management which combines qualitative and quantitative aspects, short and long term, surface and underground water. This is envisaged in the perspective of the integrated management of a resource considered as a common good fairly shared between all water stakeholders within one catchment area.
  • An inter-sector methodology with monetized valuation developed in close co-operation with our Ecosystem Services activities
  • Factor-X is member of the Water Footprint Network

What can we do together ?

The aim is to understand and act with you on water risks spread over your whole territory. Through its awareness raising and concerted consultation work, Factor-X guides you in order to give water issues the place it deserves in the development of your territory :

  • Guidance and technical support to communities in a participative consultation framework of decentralised and integrated management of water resources
  • Evaluation and monetized value of environmental services provided by aquatic ecosystems (water purification, transport, leisure, etc.) in order to estimate their actual value and to reduce impacts on these ecosystems
  • Training and awareness raising (integrated water resource management, virtual water, water consumption in agricultural and industrial sectors relocalisation,…)

Our focus areas

Conception of integrated water resource management, understanding and management of water risks per catchment area, consumption and costs reduction to community, training and awareness raising.

Methodologies

Our know-how is based on our water expertise tools mastery, including :

  • Methodologies developed by the Water Footprint Network (Water Footprint Tool), the Global Environmental Management Initiative (Collecting the drops : a water sustainability planner) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (Global Water Tool)
  • The concept of integrated water resource management which combines qualitative and quantitative aspects, short and long term, surface and underground water. This is envisaged in the perspective of the integrated management of a resource considered as a common good fairly shared between all water stakeholders within one catchment area.
  • An inter-sector methodology with monetized valuation and developed in close co-operation with our Ecosystem Services activities.
  • Factor-X is member of the Water Footprint Network.