Additional Metric Notes

ACT-D stage: Disclose Maturity stage: Developing Metric Contribution to Action: Measuring compliance with discharge limits both reflects prior action and helps identify gaps that can drive corrective action or investment in better treatment or monitoring systems. Observations/Sucesses/Challenges: > Discharge limits differ across regions, making it difficult to standardize across multinational companies. > Does not indicate absolute pollution levels > Discharge limits vary by jurisdiction > Some water-stressed regions may have weak or outdated discharge regulations, making compliance less meaningful. > Compliance can be technically observable but may be hindered by weak discharge regulations, outdated monitoring systems, or lack of enforcement in some regions.