January 2026
Completing The Water Council’s WAVE: Assess program is an important milestone in our years-long commitment to sustainable water usage and environmental stewardship.
Stewardship of water, the world’s most valuable natural resource, is a vital part of Zurn Elkay’s sustainability strategy. Earlier this month, we received third-party verification of our enterprise-wide evaluation as part of The Water Council’s WAVE: Assess program, designed to better define, recognize and reward good corporate water stewardship practices.
“This new recognition is an important milestone in our years-long commitment to sustainable water usage and environmental stewardship,” said Angela Hersil, Zurn Elkay’s VP of corporate communications and sustainability. “We’ve long been working to measure and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions intensity, electricity consumption and NOx air emissions intensity. WAVE: Assess provided a clear roadmap to creating a program to reduce our water withdrawal intensity.”
The five parts of WAVE: Assess include creating an operational water use profile of how water is withdrawn, used, consumed and discharged at our facilities. From there, we performed a source water risk assessment, ranking our facilities by risk and prioritizing a list of actions to mitigate those risks.
“By taking a deep dive into the watershed risks of our 10 largest facilities, we prioritized our locations for future water stewardship projects,” Angela said. “For example, through the assessment, we learned that our locations using wash tanks as part of the manufacturing process have an outsized share of our overall internal water usage, and those facilities—and processes—will be a core area of focus for improvement.”
Zurn Elkay has taken significant steps to minimize the environmental impact of our own operations, and we continually measure our progress towards more than 24 sustainability goals.
These timebound goals are spread across our six pillars of sustainability—Products, Environment, Health and Safety, People, Communities and Governance—and include targets like “Source at least 25% of our electricity from renewable sources by 2030” and “Validate five facilities as zero-waste-to-landfill by 2030.” We share our progress each February with the issuing of our annual sustainability report for the prior year.
“The WAVE: Assess process has been instrumental in setting our first-ever enterprise-wide water usage reduction target,” Angela said. “For a company dedicated to protecting, conserving and managing clean water, we’re proud to have achieved this major milestone and join a small group of companies to successfully complete the process.”
Completing The Water Council’s WAVE: Assess program is an important milestone in our years-long commitment to sustainable water usage and environmental stewardship.
Stewardship of water, the world’s most valuable natural resource, is a vital part of Zurn Elkay’s sustainability strategy. Earlier this month, we received third-party verification of our enterprise-wide evaluation as part of The Water Council’s WAVE: Assess program, designed to better define, recognize and reward good corporate water stewardship practices.
“This new recognition is an important milestone in our years-long commitment to sustainable water usage and environmental stewardship,” said Angela Hersil, Zurn Elkay’s VP of corporate communications and sustainability. “We’ve long been working to measure and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions intensity, electricity consumption and NOx air emissions intensity. WAVE: Assess provided a clear roadmap to creating a program to reduce our water withdrawal intensity.”
The five parts of WAVE: Assess include creating an operational water use profile of how water is withdrawn, used, consumed and discharged at our facilities. From there, we performed a source water risk assessment, ranking our facilities by risk and prioritizing a list of actions to mitigate those risks.
“By taking a deep dive into the watershed risks of our 10 largest facilities, we prioritized our locations for future water stewardship projects,” Angela said. “For example, through the assessment, we learned that our locations using wash tanks as part of the manufacturing process have an outsized share of our overall internal water usage, and those facilities—and processes—will be a core area of focus for improvement.”
Zurn Elkay has taken significant steps to minimize the environmental impact of our own operations, and we continually measure our progress towards more than 24 sustainability goals.
These timebound goals are spread across our six pillars of sustainability—Products, Environment, Health and Safety, People, Communities and Governance—and include targets like “Source at least 25% of our electricity from renewable sources by 2030” and “Validate five facilities as zero-waste-to-landfill by 2030.” We share our progress each February with the issuing of our annual sustainability report for the prior year.
“The WAVE: Assess process has been instrumental in setting our first-ever enterprise-wide water usage reduction target,” Angela said. “For a company dedicated to protecting, conserving and managing clean water, we’re proud to have achieved this major milestone and join a small group of companies to successfully complete the process.”