The Water Standard will require firms to measure water use and demonstrate efforts taken to reduce consumption.
In order to be awarded the Carbon Trust Water standard, Mr Delay said the process was "relatively straightforward".
Commenting on the launch of the Water Standard, Coca-Cola Enterprises chairman and chief executive John Brock described water as "fundamental to our business and our communities".
In March, wet weather was also blamed for a fall in the number of Welsh beaches reaching the top EU bathing water standard in the Marine Conservation Society's Good Beach Guide.
It is the same whiskey without the addition of water, a standard step in the final production of nearly every spirit, which is done to bring the alcohol content down from the high level at which it leaves the aging casks.
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An international standard on water reduction has been launched in an effort to encourage businesses to use water more sustainably.
The Trust decided to branch out from its usual territory of measuring energy use and carbon footprints because there was not a global standard on water reduction, he added.
The transmitter, which sits in the car's trunk, is also water resistant (to IPX4 standard).
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Consent forms for film and TV tend to follow a water-tight structure that is standard across the industry.
Mainz was unable to provide the standard temperature of the water on Southwest flights, but said it has never been an issue in the past.
Redbreast cask strength is neither diluted with water nor chill-filtered, another standard step, which leaves it with a slightly murkier color and noticeably stronger proof, 115 vs. the usual 80, or 57.7% alcohol vs. 40%.
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Beijing has about 100 cubic meters of water available per person, well below the U.N. standard of 1, 000 cubic meters per person, a threshold used to measure chronic water shortage.
The implementation of end-of-row seat fees is part of a broader airline trend to charge for amenities previously included in the standard fare, such as movies, water, pillows and blankets.
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is adopting changes to its standard lease language to enhance energy and water efficiency in the more than 190 million square feet of office space the federal agency leases across the United States.
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The following year, Congress threatened to take away its standard-setting powers if it did not water down its proposal.
Of the latter issue, the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard is rightfully concerned that the SEC will water down this important rule to afford brokers more protection than investors.
The Avalanche comes, standard, with a three-piece hard, water-tight cover that latches down over the bed.
For there the standard question is how many sets of kidneys the water has been through before it comes out of the tap.
Nongfu Spring, one of the China's biggest water producers, is suing Beijing Times for alleging that its bottled water did not meet national water quality standards, but instead adhered to a lower provincial standard.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women states in Article 14, para 2(h) that women have a right to adequate living conditions, including access to water, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child maintains in its article 24, para. 2 (c) that all children have a right to the highest attainable standard of health through the provision of adequate clean drinking water.
Hikers can forego mountaineering equipment, but are advised to bring standard camping supplies, as well as food and plenty of water.
Those hormones are then not captured by the standard sewage treatments and end up being released into the fresh water of the area.
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They wanted a more dazzling effect than could be achieved by the museum's standard policy of flicking with feather dusters and sponging with distilled water.
California won't allow public water utilities to use water containing MTBE with concentrations higher than 5 parts per billion, a standard cheered on by greenies and ethanol makers.
Among the energy-saving options, two promising technology switches are the electrification of transportation (electric vehicles can be about four times as energy-efficient as standard fossil-fuel vehicles) and the use of electric-powered heat pumps to deliver winter heating and hot water (heat pumps can be four times as energy-efficient as standard heaters).
If the standard were set at 10 micrograms per liter, Nikolaidis said thousands of local water systems and private wells in the country would have to filter the arsenic out to be in compliance.
It combines a strand of standard plastic with a layer made from a "smart" material that can absorb water.
Peter Benchley set the beach-reading standard almost 30 years ago with Jaws, which made you afraid to go in the water.
The Clinton administration changed the standard that had been set in 1942 from 50 parts per billion of arsenic in drinking water to 10 parts per billion.
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We place a high value on customer interaction, so as a standard practice we have flight attendants walking through the cabin every 20 or 30 minutes offering water to every customer.
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