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MetricWater stewardship

Operational water reused or recycled volume

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Volume of water reused or recycled within the organization's operations during the reporting period.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Single value
Unit
m³ — source-defined reporting unit
Reporting basis
Reporting period
Aggregation
Total volume of water reused or recycled within operations during the reporting period.
Pillar
Environmental
Topic
Water stewardship
Controlled domain
Water and marine resources
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Water reused or recycled within the organization's operations.

Verified source occurrences

Framework coverage

This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.

  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD sector guidance

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Disclosure
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    PDF p.80, C3.0 sector guidance, additional reporting bullet
    Open official framework source
  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD sector guidance

    C3.0
    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    Version 1.0, June 2024
    Requirement
    Conditional
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    PDF p.80, C3.0 sector guidance, additional reporting bullet
    Open official framework source

Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
m³ — source-defined reporting unit
Reporting basis
Reporting period

Unit meaning: Values use m³ under the disclosed TNFD sector-guidance method, reporting period and boundary.

Published dimensions

  • Water management category: reused or recycled, where separately tracked.
  • Operational boundary covered by the reported volume.

Disclosure method

Formula information

Status
Not applicable
Formula type
Structured Disclosure

Disclosure form

No single formula

Report the source-defined result with its stated fields and method disclosures. Published as a standalone operational water outcome explicitly requested as a supplementary water-stewardship disclosure. It is distinct from total water consumption, discharge, replenishment, and water-consumption intensity because it reports water recirculated within operations.

Verified sources

Evidence and status sources

Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.

Measurement evidence

  • Measurement evidenceChecked 30 August 2026

    TNFD additional sector guidance collection

    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
    Locator
    PDF p.80, C3.0 sector guidance, additional reporting bullet

    Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Operational water reused or recycled volume”.

    Open official source

Use with context

Interpretation boundaries

Method disclosures required

Source-edition basis: TNFD sector guidance, Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents).

  • State whether the reported volume is a combined reused-or-recycled amount or separately tracked reused and recycled amounts.
  • Describe the operational perimeter and facilities included.
  • Describe the methodology used to measure, estimate, or compile reused and recycled water volumes and controls used to avoid double counting.

Record-specific limitations

  • The evidence does not specify whether reused and recycled water must be reported as separate values or as one combined value.
  • The evidence does not define reuse or recycling eligibility criteria, water-quality treatment, source-water categories, measurement methods, or treatment of multiple reuse cycles.
  • This supplementary disclosure does not measure water consumption, discharge, replenishment, or water-stress exposure.

Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.

Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.