H2Oversight

Independent Sustainability Research · Est. 2025

Tracking corporate environmental sustainability — from commitments to accountability.

H2Oversight reviews annual environmental reports from the world's largest publicly traded corporations and translates dense disclosures into public, comparable data on water, pollution, and carbon.

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Top 10 · Individual companies

composite score
  1. 01Intel Corp.
    88
  2. 02Emerson Electric
    87
  3. 03Gilead Sciences, Inc.
    86
  4. 04Kimberly-Clark Corp.
    85
  5. 05Exxon Mobil Corp.
    85
  6. 06Goldman Sachs Group
    85
  7. 07Cisco Systems Inc.
    83
  8. 08Apple Inc.
    82
  9. 09Microsoft Corp.
    81
  10. 10Nucor Corp.
    80

Sector rankings · 11 industries

average score
  1. 01Real Estate
    69
  2. 02Financials
    67
  3. 03Energy
    64
  4. 04Utilities
    64
  5. 05Materials
    63
  6. 06Information Technology
    62
  7. 07Consumer Staples
    62
  8. 08Communication Services
    59
  9. 09Consumer Discretionary
    59
  10. 10Industrials
    59
  11. 11Health Care
    56

Currently monitoring

S&P 100 + global multinationals

The human toll · Why stewardship matters

Water scarcity is not abstract. It is measured in lives.

Corporate water decisions ripple into watersheds that billions of people depend on. Three numbers frame why H2Oversight tracks every commitment.

Scale of scarcity

4B

people face severe water scarcity

Half of the global population endures severe water scarcity for at least one month every year.

Source · UN Development Programme

Daily tragedy

900

children lost every day

Unsafe water and inadequate sanitation claim one child under five every two minutes — 1.4 million lives cut short annually.

Source · WHO · Health Policy Watch

Imminent migration

700M

people displaced by 2030

UNICEF projects over 700 million people could be forcibly displaced from their homes by severe water scarcity within five years.

Source · UNICEF · UNDP

Where the water goes

Global freshwater withdrawals by sector.

Source · FAO AQUASTAT

AgricultureIrrigation, livestock, aquaculture
70%
IndustryManufacturing, cooling, energy production
19%
MunicipalHouseholds, services, public supply
11%

Nearly one in five liters withdrawn worldwide is consumed by industry — the slice H2Oversight holds accountable through corporate disclosure analysis.

Demand trajectory

Global water demand is on track to outpace supply by 40% by 2030.

SUPPLYDEMAND20102030

Source · 2030 Water Resources Group

A single corporate footprint

One hyperscale data center can withdraw 550,000 gallons of water per day — the daily use of roughly 4,000 households.

1 data center households (×100 each)

Source · U.S. DOE · Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

135

Corporations tracked

11

Sectors monitored

4

Core water metrics

100%

Publicly sourced data

What we do

A clearer view of corporate environmental performance.

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01

Data accessibility

Translating complex environmental performance data into accessible, public summaries any reader can navigate.

02

Corporate monitoring

Tracking water usage, pollution management, and carbon reduction across major publicly traded corporations.

03

Global reach

Sharing insights with international sustainability organizations and corporate partners worldwide.

Tagline

Public commitments are easy to make. We track whether they are actually kept.

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