2022 Sustainability Report

Message from Patrick Decker

Working with our customers and other partners, we’re taking action across multiple fronts to help communities, businesses and other users of water solve many of their water and climate-related problems.”
Sustainability Strategy

Learn more about how Xylem is helping to build a more resilient and sustainable world while creating social and economic value.
Message from Claudia Toussaint

In 2022, we took significant steps forward and also turned our attention to — how do we raise the bar even further? And what does Sustainability at Xylem look like after 2025?
Sustainability Memo: Overview

See how and why sustainability is core to everything we do.

Community Impact Stories

Good Health and Well-Being

Xylem reduces water contamination that threatens human health with digital technologies that enable our customers to treat drinking water and prevent polluted water from flooding communities or entering local waterways.

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Gender Representation

Xylem is committed to increasing gender representation in leadership positions within the organization, and eliminating pay differences based on gender, race or ethnicity.

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Clean Water and Sanitation

Xylem develops and brings to the market innovative solutions that help solve critical water issues for communities, including those that help the millions of people living at the base of the global economic pyramid.

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Industry, Innovation And Infrastructure

Xylem develops and brings to market innovative solutions that create major water, energy and cost efficiencies.

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Sustainable Cities And Communities

Xylem improves the safety and quality of life of millions of people living in economically-challenged communities and/or affected by water-related catastrophes by enhancing access to clean drinking water.

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Climate Action

Xylem helps utilities and businesses build resilience, with technologies including water reuse solutions that help ensure a continuous supply of safe water in the face of scarcity caused by climate change.

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2022 Global Water Award Net Zero Champion