Stakeholder Perceptions Of Utility Role In Environmental Leadership

Publisher: W.E. Gates Publication date: 1901 Subjects: English literature Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Medieval Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

This project was initiated in response to pressures that water utilities face to be responsive to growing environmental concerns and changing federal requirements for water quality. The lack of a clear understanding of what environmental leadership means has made it difficult for water utility managers to know how to respond to environmental concerns in their community. This project was designed to accomplish the following objectives: 1) Identify the fundamental characteristics of environmental leadership based on input from drinking water utility managers and environmental stakeholders. 2) Identify examples of environmental leadership by drinking water utilities. 3) Assess the views of drinking water utility managers, residential water utility customers, and environmental stakeholders about the role a drinking water utility should play in environmental leadership. 4) Solicit from environmental stakeholders and water utility managers their suggestions for strategies that water utility managers can use to evolve their utilities into environmental leaders. 5) Describe basic strategies for environmental leadership in sufficient detail so that the managers of drinking water utilities can easily modify the strategies as appropriate, then apply them to their own utilities. By being perceived as an environmental leader, water utilities will be better positioned to endure a crisis in public opinion when environmental problems do occur because the general public is more likely to believe that the water utility has done everything it could to prevent the problem.

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This project was developed with two primary objectives: (1) to identify potential benefits to drinking water utilities from an environmental management system (EMS) and (2) to define steps necessary to develop a water utility sector'specific EMS model from which utilities could create their own EMS. This report reflects both the initial research into alternative EMS models and a ?best practices? guidance based on the ISO 14001 framework. With the input of leading private and public water utilities, this document was developed to assist water utilities interested in developing an EMS that will support and ensure continual improvement, increase thoroughness in compliance efforts, and demonstrate environmental excellence. Includes CD with Appendices.