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Xylem Watermark 2025 Community Sustainability Goals
We aim to achieve these goals by empowering our employees to volunteer, and partnering with venture impact funds, philanthropic organizations, customers, and suppliers - driving positive social and economic impact for communities in the markets we serve.
Progress*
In 2024, we successfully expanded our employee volunterr program, Watermark, to our legacy Evoqua colleagues, contributing to a record-breaking 220,00+ volunteer hours in our communities. To advance toward our WASH access goal, we provided clean water and sanitation solutions to an additional 3.6 million people in under-resourced communities. Additionally, we reached 2.1 million individuals through water ediucation initiatives and delivered humanitarian aid in response to 43 water-related disasters - more than in any prior year.
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Goal 1: Give 1% of company profits** to water-related causes and education
2024: Donated 07% or $6.4+ million, through financial and in-kind equipment donations. Progress to 2025: On track to meet 1% by 2025
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Goal 2: Provide paid time off for Xylem employees to volunteer 1% of their time
2024: On average, employees volunteered 9.5 hours. Progress to 2025: 20 hours (or 1% for full-time employees) of volunteer time off now available for all employees
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Goal 3: Engage at least 95% of Xylem employees in volunteer activities
2024: Included legacy Evoqua employees in reporting. Progress to 2025: 79% of employees volunteered
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Goal 4: Engage 100,000 stakeholders in volunteer events
2024: 6,000 stakeholders participated in volunteer events. Progress to 2025: 24,600 / 100,000
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Goal 5: Provide 15 million people with water education to improve quality of life and raise awareness of water issues
2024: Provided water education to 2.1 million people. Progess to 2025: 12.4 / 15 million people
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Goal 6: Provide access to clean water and sanitation solutions for at least 20 million people living at the base of the global economic pyramid
2024: Provided access to 3.6 million people. Progress to 2025: 16.3 / 20 million people
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Goal 7: Deploy humanitarian aid to 200 areas affected by water-related natural disasters***
2024: Responded to 43 disasters with humanitarian aid. Progress to 2025: 154 / 200
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*Impact through 2025 to be updated following the release of our 2025 Sustainability Report.
** 'Company Profits' is defined as GAAP Net Income.
*** See a definition of water-related natural disasters in the accounting principles on pages 85-86 of the 2024 Sustainability Report.
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