1 Trillion Gallons of Water Being Recycled Using Xylem Technology
June 01 2021 - 8:25AM
Business Wire
Company’s 2020 Sustainability Report tracks
progress in tackling critical global challenges of water access,
affordability and resilience
- Helping customers reuse 4.3B m3 of water, or more than 1
trillion gallons, equivalent to almost two million Olympic swimming
pools
- Technology kept 1.4B m3 of polluted water from potentially
flooding communities and entering waterways
- Assisted 4.1M underserved people to get access to clean water
and sanitation
- Doubled philanthropy to provide COVID relief to colleagues,
communities
- 10 of Xylem’s 22 major facilities now operating on 100%
renewable electricity
Xylem (NYSE:XYL), a leading global water technology company, is
helping its customers re-use more than one trillion gallons (4.3
billion cubic meters) of water, according to its 2020
Sustainability Report, Solving Water for a Resilient World,
released today. The company’s technology also prevented 369 billion
gallons (1.4 billion cubic meters) of polluted water from
potentially flooding communities and entering local waterways.
Water re-use and pollution prevention are two of Xylem’s signature
sustainability goals, targeted for achievement by 2025.
Deployment of advanced water technologies is driving the
dramatic sustainability gains, around the world. The City of South
Bend, Indiana, optimized its existing wastewater network with
artificial intelligence systems to deliver an 80% reduction in
sewer overflows. A treatment plant in Cuxhaven, Germany, cut
aeration energy use by 30% using Xylem technology. And a water
utility in Malaysia identified more than 300 leaks in its network
using sophisticated in-pipe sensors, helping dramatically reduce
the loss of treated water.
“Bringing access to sustainable, clean and affordable water to
more people around the world — while protecting the environment —
is both our purpose and our business,” said Patrick Decker, Xylem’s
president and CEO. “The achievements detailed in this report show
how, together, our colleagues and our customers are making a big
difference in our communities. Technology can do a lot to make the
world more sustainable and more resilient, but these results come
from the commitment, dedication, and even heroism of the people
we’re so privileged to serve and work with, every day. It’s within
our power to solve urgent challenges like water scarcity and
affordability, now, and create a more water-secure world for future
generations.”
In 2020, Xylem made significant progress toward its
sector-leading 2025 signature sustainability goals, despite the
additional challenges of COVID-19. Through its advanced products
and technologies, the Company helped customers reduce their carbon
footprint by 0.7 million metric tons of CO2, equivalent to keeping
150,000 passenger cars off the road for a year. Xylem is now
running almost half its major facilities on 100% renewable
electricity, and has committed to transition its global vehicle
fleet to electric and hybrid, targeting an initial 45% reduction in
fleet CO2 emissions by 2023.
In addition to advancing its existing sustainability goals in
2020, Xylem made new commitments to address the pandemic’s impact,
around the world. The Company doubled philanthropic investments and
extended new support to employees, business partners and the
communities they serve. It also expanded relationships with its
global NGO partners, like Americares and UNICEF, supporting 4.1
million people in underserved communities to get access to water
and sanitation and providing 3.6 million people with water
education to raise awareness and improve their quality of life.
“As a company, we recognize the opportunity we have to lead,
given the breadth of our technologies and our global reach,” said
Claudia Toussaint, Xylem’s Chief Sustainability Officer. “We
navigate difficult times in ways that make us stronger and more
resilient — and support our customers and communities to do the
same. With that mindset, we pulled together across our
organization, and with our partners around the globe, to help
mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 while continuing to deliver on our
sustainability commitments.”
“If anything, the pandemic has made the economic and social
value of water networks and other critical infrastructure more
apparent than ever,” continued Toussaint. “We know they are always
essential, but we all learned how critical they are in times of
crisis. They’re also a potential driver of economic recovery, and a
pre-requisite for broad-based prosperity. The shocks of the last
year have heightened everyone’s awareness of the need for greater
resilience and equity, and the imperative of a sustainable
future.”
Among the actions and achievements from 2020 detailed in the
GRI-compliant report, additional highlights include:
- Raising $1 billion in a green bond offering – the first of its
kind for a US industrial company;
- Reducing company water use intensity by 30% over the last six
years – nearly 10% versus 2019, alone;
- Reducing company net greenhouse gas emissions intensity by over
7% versus 2019;
- Committing to a sustainable fleet strategy to transition the
global vehicle fleet to electric and hybrid;
- Launching a U.S. supplier diversity program;
- Increasing transparency in its supply chain by engaging
suppliers to report into EcoVadis and CDP and take the WASH
pledge.
- Further aligning business and sustainability performance by
tying five key 2025 sustainability goals to long-term incentives
for an expanded group of executives.
To learn more about Xylem’s sustainability progress, download
Solving Water for a Resilient World.
About Xylem
Xylem (XYL) is a leading global water technology company
committed to solving critical water and infrastructure challenges
with innovation. Our more than 16,000 diverse employees delivered
revenue of $4.88 billion in 2020. We are creating a more
sustainable world by enabling our customers to optimize water and
resource management, and helping communities in more than 150
countries become water-secure. Join us at www.xylem.com.
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