Water withdrawn from areas with water stress
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports water withdrawn from areas with water stress as a source-independent sustainability result defined by the cleared CDP Full Corporate Questionnaire 2026 package. Question routing, sector, environmental issue, reporting boundary, period and field-level units remain explicit dimensions.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Multi-field profile
- Unit
- field-specific units - CDP source-defined unit, scale and denominator
- Reporting basis
- The organization reporting period selected for the 2026 CDP disclosure cycle; target, base-year, prior-year and planned observations retain their stated reference period.
- Aggregation
- Aggregate only observations with the same reporting organization, boundary, period, population, unit, denominator, sector, environmental issue and CDP field definition. Recompute ratios from compatible components rather than averaging percentages.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Environmental performance - Water security
- Controlled domain
- Water and marine resources
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
The reporting organization and routed CDP full-corporate questionnaire boundary. Facility, geography, division, activity, subsidiary, value-chain position, commodity, asset class and sector remain queryable dimensions and are not silently merged.
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 DisclosureSource evidence
CDP Full Corporate Questionnaire 2026
- Publisher
- CDP
- Edition
- Full Corporate Questionnaire and Reporting Guidance 2026 v1.3, revised 6 August 2026
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- Q9.2.4, numeric field 1 | Q9.2.4, numeric field 2
- Adopting Disclosurewater-withdrawal-from-water-stressed-areas
CDP Full Corporate Questionnaire 2026
- Publisher
- CDP
- Edition
- Full Corporate Questionnaire and Reporting Guidance 2026 v1.3, revised 6 August 2026
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Q9.2.4, numeric field 1 | Q9.2.4, numeric field 2
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- field-specific units - CDP source-defined unit, scale and denominator
- Reporting basis
- The organization reporting period selected for the 2026 CDP disclosure cycle; target, base-year, prior-year and planned observations retain their stated reference period.
Unit meaning: Use field-specific units while retaining the stated scale, denominator, population, geography, sector and reporting period.
Table fields and units
- Volume withdrawn from areas with water stress (megaliters)
- % of total withdrawals that are withdrawn from areas with water stress
Published dimensions
- CDP question routes: Q9.2.4
- CDP modules: Environmental performance - Water security
- Source field count: 2
- Reporting organization and period
- Environmental issue, questionnaire sector and routed disclosure population
- Facility, geography, activity, commodity, portfolio or value-chain dimensions where applicable
- Unit, scale, denominator, estimation method and assurance status
Disclosure method
Formula information
- Status
- Not applicable
- Formula type
- Structured Disclosure
Disclosure form
Report the direct value or structured profile defined by Q9.2.4The pinned public field metadata supplies a direct value or structured result but no universal arithmetic formula; no formula is inferred.
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 1 September 2026
CDP Questionnaire Changes Tracker 2026
- Publisher
- CDP
- Edition
- Full Corporate Questionnaire and Reporting Guidance 2026 v1.3, revised 6 August 2026
- Locator
- Q9.2.4, numeric field 1 | Q9.2.4, numeric field 2
Supports: The cleared 2026 CDP package establishes Water withdrawn from areas with water stress through Q9.2.4.
Open official source
Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: Full Corporate Questionnaire and Reporting Guidance 2026 v1.3, revised 6 August 2026
- State the CDP edition, question route, questionnaire sector and environmental issue.
- State the reporting organization, boundary, period, geography, facility, activity, commodity, portfolio or value-chain population as applicable.
- State every field-level unit, scale, denominator, estimation method, source data, uncertainty and assurance status.
- Identify base-year, target-year, planned, prior-year and reporting-year observations separately.
Record-specific limitations
- CDP questionnaire setup and prior responses determine which fields an organization sees; absence of a routed field is not a zero value.
- The public Changes Tracker v3 is the maximum field universe and Version Control v1.3 supplies current edition evidence.
- Comparability depends on consistent routing, boundary, period, unit, denominator, sector and method.
- No universal arithmetic formula is inferred when the pinned public package supplies only a direct value or structured response field.
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.