2025 Sustainability Report
Learn how we’re advancing a more water-secure world with our customers, partners, and communities, and recognizing that progress depends on collective action.
2025 Sustainability ReportSustainability is core to our business strategy, grounded in our belief that environmental stewardship and societal resilience go hand in hand with financial success.
As water challenges—from scarcity to emerging contaminants—intensify, water security is becoming a critical priority for communities and businesses.
We are uniquely positioned to support this transition. Working alongside our customers and partners, we deliver solutions that enable clean water, wastewater treatment, and public health protection.
Accelerating progress toward a water-secure future
Dear stakeholders,
Water is one of the defining challenges of our time—a critical constraint for urbanization, industrial growth, and now the AI revolution. The new economy is reshaping our world faster than any other technology before, but every chip, every data center, and every megawatt of power depends on reliable supplies of clean water. As demands are rising, the world’s water systems are struggling. Aging infrastructure, decades of underinvestment and climate pressures are straining supplies. Already water-stressed regions are especially hard hit and urgently need more resilient, efficient, and sustainable water systems.
Xylem brings the domain expertise, hardware, and analytics at scale to solve this sustainability challenge—across the full water cycle. We have a clear strategy and purpose: to help customers and communities build a more water-secure world—from moving, treating, and measuring water to optimizing and maintaining the water systems that sustain communities and industries.
2025 Highlights
-16%
Reduction in Scope 1 and 2 (market-based) emissions since 2023
-15%
Reduction in Scope 3 economic emissions intensity since 2023
-15%
Reduction in water economic intensity since 2023
29%
Women represented in leadership positions through merit-based retention, promotion, and recruitment
3,70 million
people reached in 2025. Provided access to clean water and sanitation solutions—bringing total impact to 20 million people since 2019, achieving our 2025 Sustainability Goal.
81%
Employee participation in volunteer activities in 2025
46
disaster-affected areas supported in 2025. Humanitarian aid delivered to communities impacted by water-related disasters—contributing to 200 areas supported since 2019, meeting our 2025 Sustainability Goal.
-15%
Reduction in injury frequency rate to 0.44, surpassing our 2025 Sustainability Goal of 0.5
2025: A List
Achieved CDP Climate Change A List. Our strongest performance since we began reporting in 2013.
#41
Ranked among the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations by Corporate Knights (2026)
Xylem ESG ratings/Indexes
- EcoVadis: Silver (93rd Percentile)
- CDP: Climate Change – A (as of December 2025)
- CDP: Water Security – B (as of December 2025)
- CDP: Supplier Engagement – A (as of February 2026)
- ISS ESG Corporate Rating: Prime – Decile rank 1 (as of December 9, 2025)
- ISS ESG Quality Score: Environment – 1 / Social – 1 (as of April 1, 2026)
Recognitions
- 2026 Global 100© – Corporate Knights (ranked #41 out of 100 overall)
- 2026 Clean 200© – Corporate Knights (ranked #106 out of 200 overall)
- 2026 USA 25 Most Sustainable Corporations – Corporate Knights (ranked #7 overall)
- 2025 250 Best-Managed Companies – Wall Street Journal (ranked #116 out of 250 overall)
- 2026 America's Most Responsible Companies – Newsweek (ranked #63 out of 600 overall)
- 2025 America's Greatest Companies – Newsweek (4 ½ stars)
- 2026 America’s Best Companies – Forbes (ranked #483 out of 500 overall)
- 2025 The Global 2000 – Forbes (ranked #1,041 out of 2,000 overall)
- 2025 100 Most Sustainable U.S. Companies – Barron's (ranked #6)
- 2026 America’s Most Just Companies – JUST Capital (ranked #65 out of 933 overall)
- 2026 Equality 100 Award – Leader in Workplace Inclusion – Human Rights Campaign Foundation (6th consecutive year)
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Learn how we're advancing a more water-secure world through collaboration with our customers, partners, and communities