As a leader in water management, we are committed to using water responsibly across our operations and products, while helping our customers and communities build water resilience.
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We take a coordinated, multi-tiered approach to managing water across our facilities, built on shared accountability throughout the organization. Our president and vice president of risk management provide senior oversight across all facilities, guiding EHS staff and facility general managers. At the site level, facility managers lead monitoring, water efficiency improvements and reporting to the corporate EHS team. The Sustainability Steering Committee provides cross-functional oversight, driving companywide alignment and continuous improvement.
We seek to continuously improve our ability to track and manage our water withdrawal and discharge and to reduce our overall water consumption. We review water data by facility annually to achieve a granular understanding of our water use, including domestic use, irrigation, wash and rinse tanks, coolant use and product testing. These reviews help us determine which improvements at our facilities could have the greatest impact on our water consumption and use. In 2025, we established a new goal to reduce water withdrawal intensity by 3% by 2030 compared to our 2025 baseline. To achieve this goal, we are:
In 2025, 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. The five parts of WAVE: Assess include creating an operational water use profile of how water is withdrawn, used, consumed and discharged at our facilities.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 and published a Water Stewardship Statement.
We regularly identify volunteer opportunities that aid in protecting major rivers and their waterbeds and improving access to safer, cleaner drinking water. In 2025, associates in Hyderabad, India volunteered with a local school in recognition of World Water Day 2025. The school's 120 students had been relying on unfiltered water, which posed serious health risks, so we donated a water filtration system to improve access to cleaner, safer drinking water. Associates also identified limited access to recreational equipment and donated various sports items and spent time engaging students in structured activities.
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