Through partnerships with leading global non-governmental organizations (NGOs), we strengthen our understanding and our ability to impact global challenges facing our business, customers and communities.

Our Commitments:

• Open Letter to Double Down on Climate Action
• Open Call to Accelerate Action on Water
• WaterEquity Water & Climate Resilience Fund
• WaterEquity Global Access Fund IV
• United Nations Global Compact Forward Faster Initiative
• U.N. Global Compact signatory
• U.N. CEO Water Mandate signatory
• Founding member of the Water Resilience Coalition
• Founding member of the California Water Resilience Initiative
• Founding member of the Alliance for Water Stewardship’s International Water Stewardship Standard
• U.N. Business Ambition for 1.5°C; Science-Based Target Initiative (SBTi) signatory
• RE100 member 

Our Partnerships:

• In partnership with the U.N. CEO Water Mandate’s Water Resilience Coalition and The Pacific Institute, Ecolab continues to grow the California Water Resilience Initiative, an ambitious collaborative effort to scale reduce, reuse and replenish projects in water-stressed California.
• In addition, through our membership in the California Water Action Collaborative, we are working to improve California’s water security along with a network of diverse stakeholders.
• Collaborating with the Project WET Foundation, we co-created the Clean and Conserve Education Program focusing on water conservation and healthy hygiene education for youth around the globe.
• Our partnerships with The Nature Conservancy and the Bonneville Environmental Foundation help advance water conservation and stewardship initiatives in priority regions including China, Mexico and the United States. Through active participation in sustainability-related industry work groups, we share expertise and insights to influence standards, regulations and practices, and enhance sustainability leadership across industries.
• Through our work with The Nature Conservancy, we are funding multiple ambitious basin replenishment initiatives, including the Loch Leven project within the Mississippi River Delta and a water use reduction project in the Maipo Basin near Santiago, Chile.
• We work with the World Resources Institute Aqueduct Alliance to deliver best-in-class data and methodologies for the Smart Water Navigator, a publicly available, online tool that helps companies achieve business resilience through smart water management.