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Institutional investors from around the world have joined Ceres, a sustainability nonprofit, in launching the Valuing Water Finance Initiative, a new effort to engage 72 corporate water users and polluters to value and act on water as a financial risk and drive the necessary large-scale change to better protect water systems.