As environmental stewards, we engage in and promote business practices that respect our values. We are committed to minimizing the impact of our global operations and supply chain on the environment, protecting the communities where we operate, and innovating products and services that support our customers in doing the same.
Reducing our Water, Energy, Carbon, and Waste Footprints since 2014
Water
Intensity
Emissions
Intensity
Hazardous Waste
Intensity
emissions intensity reduction
intensity reduction
become WAVE
Verified in 2022
to be WAVE
Reverified in 2024
reduced since 2014
since 2014
Tracking Environmental Data
Environment, Health, & Safety
Our environmental management system is a key component of our global integration and provides the framework from which we deliver best-in class performance, while ensuring our facilities operate safely, efficiently, and responsibly.
The Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability Steering Committee is led by our CEO and executive management team and spearheads all EHS and ESG programs at Watts. Committee members review our EHS and sustainability performance and discuss trends and issues, key business drivers, progress on goals and targets, and actions for continued improvement.
Read more in our EHS & Sustainability Policy
Examples of Energy Emissions Reductions
Watts WAVE Certification
Watts has successfully completed verification for The Water Council’s WAVE: Water Stewardship Verified program, indicating the company has assessed water-related risk across the enterprise, identified the highest water-related impacts using credible water-related data and implemented best practice in improving water stewardship performance. As a result of the review, Watts took a variety of actions at the local and global level to reduce water consumption, increase reuse, improve water quality, and reduce negative impacts upstream and downstream.
Water Stewardship
Access to clean, safe, and affordable water is a fundamental human right. Water and climate are inexorably linked, and an imminent global water crisis threatens the availability, quantity, and quality of water for basic human needs. We formalized our commitment to being part of the solution in our Corporate Environment, Health, Safety, and Sustainability Policy.
Alignment
with global water stewardship standards and
best practices, particularly
among high-use facilities &
facilities in water-stressed
regions.
Respect
Acknowledgement
of water as a shared resource
of our operations: water withdrawn,
water consumed, and
quality of discharges
affecting local ecosystems.
Transparency
Improvement
advance stewardship in
operations, watershed
management, community
engagement, and
transparency.
Engaging all Colleagues in Water Stewardship
Deepening Our Commitment to Protect the Merrimack River
In 2023, we built on our longstanding partnership with the Clean River Project, a nonprofit dedicated to cleaning and preserving a 45-mile stretch of the Merrimack River, which serves as the water supply to 600,000 residents and is the local watershed to three Watts sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, USA. Our sponsorship of the organization funded the construction and deployment of a new, upcycled pontoon boat that carries volunteers onto the river for clean ups. The Watts Water/Clean River Project boat made 30 trips in 2023, recovering ~6 US tons of trash and debris from the Merrimack.
From Sites to Communities: Water Stewardship Engagement in the Okanagan Region
Through participation in the WAVE accelerator program, our tekmar team in Vernon, BC, Canada deepened relationships with community organizations and local government agencies that share an interest in protecting the local watershed. The Okanagan region where tekmar is located is considered one of the three most endangered ecological regions in Canada and has experienced extreme weather patterns in recent years. In April 2023, dozens of tekmar colleagues volunteered at the Allen Brooks Nature Center, adding over 100 plants of various species to the local habitat, contributing to ongoing research and development programming for local ecological sustainability initiatives. On World Water Day in March, tekmar volunteers joined a regional district river clean up headed by the local government.
In New York, Boiler Donations Bring Safe and Reliable Heat and Hot Water to Area Nonprofits
Since 2008, our Blauvelt, NY facility has supported local community organizations by donating high-efficiency Aerco boilers that, while tested and no longer eligible for sale, function like new. This program began with a donation to a school for at-risk youth and has since benefited 11 local organizations, including community centers, food pantries, and schools, saving them significant boiler replacement costs and reducing fuel expenses and greenhouse gas emissions. Two Blauvelt employees provide ongoing setup and maintenance, with the first donation in 2008 saving over $10,000 annually in fuel costs.