Corporate water stewardship is essential for business success. It is also fundamental to creating a positive future for people, planet and business health.
Ecolab helps businesses around the world achieve ambitious sustainability goals by reducing freshwater use and increasing water resiliency which helps safeguard against current and future water stress. We have been helping businesses excel for more than a century and have proven experience helping our customers build water strategies that serve as a roadmap to sustainability and profitability.
As a global leader in water solutions and services, we remain dedicated to creating a water resilient future through smart water management, conservation and stewardship.
Through our long history of efficiency improvements and collective action, we continue to demonstrate that companies can accelerate their growth while prioritizing water.
Ecolab’s Smart Water Navigator helps organizations execute localized corporate water strategies to increase business and community resilience.
With unique expertise in water quality and management programs and solutions, we’re driven to help customers advance efficient operations and responsible growth.
Ecolab believes in the power of partnerships to address global water challenges. That’s why we are a founding member and co-chair of the Water Resilience Coalition, an industry-led initiative of the UN Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate, and co-founder of the California Water Resilience Initiative, a collaboration that aims to harness public-private sector innovation and leadership to address California's water challenges.
Water is a key part of our 2030 Positive Impact, which focuses on the benefits Ecolab can bring to communities and the world by the end of the decade.
To continue to make progress toward our 2030 Positive Impact, Ecolab has prioritized water stewardship projects at our sites with the aim of improving the overall health of the local watersheds. Our projects will use a three-pathway strategy to achieve a net-positive water impact by:
Ecolab is a founding member of the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS). The AWS standard empowers sites with a five-step framework to address site-related water challenges and manage risk. Sites are required to reach out to stakeholders to discuss shared water challenges, forming relationships with the communities in which they operate.
As part of our efforts as we aim to reach Net Positive Water Impact, we have achieved AWS certifications at Ecolab manufacturing facilities in Brazil, Chile, China, Mexico and the United States.
Ecolab is currently pursuing certification or recertifying the AWS standard at the following facilities:
13 Total AWS-Certified Sites 
Managing 1 trillion gallons of water annually, Ecolab’s team of experts helps customers identify and implement water resiliency solutions that support local watersheds.
Through Ecolab solutions including Ecolab Water for Climate, Ecolab®Water Track IQ™, 3D TRASAR™ and digital tools like the Smart Water Navigator, we support smart water management practices to reduce demand and improve water quality while optimizing costs at the facility and organizational level.
We work with partners to understand the shared water challenges in their local basin and address them with nature-based solutions.
Watersheds face a variety of risks, including water scarcity and water quality, accelerating impacts of climate change and loss of local species.
As a founding member of the Water Resilience Coalition, we work collectively to achieve Net Positive Water Impact through public-private partnerships, policy, technology and a roadmap to reach the WRC’s goals for 100 priority basins by 2030. Through the work of the WRC, we know that 150 companies can directly impact approximately one-third of the world’s water use, which means that industry has a unique responsibility and opportunity to address the global water crisis.
Our corporate water stewardship plans outline the actions we will take within our plants, as well as the communities in which we operate.
As water challenges grow more pressing, an increasing number of companies are pursuing corporate water stewardship projects. Traditionally, companies have used volumetric water benefit accounting to estimate volumetric water benefits and identify, select and monitor projects. But these projects impact more than volume, generating many co-benefits that improve conditions for society. This whitepaper, released by Ecolab and other partners, aims to show the link between volumetric water benefits and societal value, helping demonstrate for companies the holistic value of corporate water stewardship projects.
The following case studies showcase our Ecolab plants that have received AWS certification:
Ecolab is growing fast by growing our impact with high-performing teams. Together with our customers and suppliers, we are focused on continuing our positive performance into the future.
With unparalleled expertise and cutting-edge technology, we partner with customers to deliver world-class results and optimized operations. Contact us to learn how we can help you.
Ecolab Inc.
1 Ecolab Place
St. Paul, MN 55102
Ecolab Customer Service:
Phone: +1-800-352-5326
Nalco Water Customer Service
Phone: +1-800-288-0879
With unparalleled expertise and cutting-edge technology, we partner with customers to deliver world-class results and optimized operations. Contact us to learn how we can help you.
Ecolab Inc.
1 Ecolab Place
St. Paul, MN 55102
Ecolab Customer Service
Phone: +1-800-352-5326
Nalco Water Customer Service
Phone: +1-800-288-0879
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