Sustainable business practices are key to building a firm foundation to deliver shared value and innovation, uphold high governance standards and drive employee and stakeholder engagement.

We hold our suppliers to the same high ethical standards as we do ourselves. We strive to conduct our business with integrity, minimize our environmental footprint, continuously improve the quality of our products, protect health and safety, promote the well-being of our employees, and foster diversity, equality, and inclusion.

Explore highlights from across our global facilities and our supplier engagement programs:

Operations Case Studies

Supply Chain Programs

2025 Sustainability Goals

Our 2025 Sustainability Goals remain the cornerstone of our sustainability program, reinforcing our commitment to environmental and social responsibility. 

Following the acquisition of Evoqua, we reviewed the goals of both legacy companies in detail to determine how to best integrate them. Certain goals will remain specific to legacy-Xylem until the end of 2025.

Since 2023 we’ve made outstanding progress on these goals:

Operations

As of 2023, 11 of our 22¹ major facilities have achieved all three major facility goals.  An additional five major facilities have accomplished both 100% process water recycling and zero waste to landfill. Two more facilities have reached the milestone of 100% renewable energy.

Supply Chain 

In 2023, our total diverse spend in the United States grew, accompanied by an increase in supplier disclosures through CDP and EcoVadis. We take pride in the participation of our suppliers in the WASH4WORK commitment, as it constitutes a fundamental component of our social impact strategy.

 
^{1 Slaton, (Texas) USA, a previously identified major facility, closed in 2023. Since the facility was open for part of 2023, their impact to the goals has been tracked for this reporting year. In reporting year 2024, our major facilities denominator will shift to 21.}

For methodology updates and more information on the programs and initiatives that driven our progress on these goals, please read our 2023 Sustainability Report.