Water: Your key to sustainable business growth.
Ecolab Water for Climate™ combines operational insights and expertise to implement water strategies that help reduce your water usage and operational costs, leading to more business growth.

Explore the impact of water on sustainable business growth.
The Power of Water
Water is vital to maintain business continuity. How you manage this precious resource impacts the resiliency of your operations, your credibility among stakeholders, and ultimately, the profitability of your business.
Moving, cooling, heating and treating water in your sites requires energy. Therefore, optimizing your water use helps lower your energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, and enables you to meet your business goals – all at the same time.
Ecolab Water for Climate™ helps deliver on your sustainability and business growth goals through an enterprise-level partnership and this four-step approach:

Understand Your Goals
First, we understand where you are and where you want to be
- Understand the strategy and drivers for publicly stated water goals
- Review your approach to reach goals within operational constraints and account for local regulations and climate
- Compare to industry benchmarks

Gain Insights
Next, we conduct thorough assessments to uncover insights and create the Ecolab Water for Climate Blueprint
- Assess site operations based on unique production needs
- Model downstream impacts of how you treat water based on regulations, water availability, and other factors
- Help prioritize the most impactful water projects to reach your goals across your enterprise

Implement Actions
Based on the Ecolab Water for Climate Blueprint, our on-site industrial water experts help implement and maintain solutions
- Deliver on-site consulting, project management and service
- Leverage advanced chemistries and digital technologies
- Provide engineering design, implementation and operation

Deliver Outcomes
Improve your water resiliency, operational performance and productivity with the Ecolab Water for Climate program, leveraging an outcome-based pricing model.
- Deliver and report reduction in water use and the impact on energy and greenhouse gas emissions
- Protect brand equity
- Gain operational and cost efficiency
Smart Water Navigator
Where are you on your water journey?
As water scarcity grows, you need to prepare your sites to be resilient while also maintaining profitability
As a starting point, the Smart Water Navigator includes a Water Action Assessment, a step-by-step guide, to help you understand where your facilities are on the Water Maturity Curve and determine what needs to happen to go from an “untapped” state to operating “water-smart"

References
- Productivity savings are based on 59 food and beverage industry assessments and water system modeling. Actual results will vary based on individual site design and operation.
- Uptime improvements are based on water system modeling, improved visibility that increases response time and improved water-related operational procedures. Actual results will vary based on individual site design and operation.
- Improvements are based on water system modeling, site assessments and improved water-related operational procedures in the primary metals and chemical industries. Actual results will vary based on individual site design and operation.